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Irish war film wins top Cannes prize
CANNES (France), May 28: British director Ken Loach won the “Palme d’Or” at the Cannes film festival on Sunday with “The Wind That Shakes The Barley,” a drama about the Irish struggle for independence in 1920....
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Israeli forces attack Lebanese guerillas
LUCI (Lebanon), May 28: Israeli jets attacked Syrian-backed Palestinian and Lebanese guerrillas in Lebanon on Sunday, hours aft2er rockets fired deep into northern Israel wounded an Israeli soldier....
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Ahmadinejad defends Holocaust comments
BERLIN, May 28: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said an “active worldwide network of Zionists” was trying to prevent his possible trip to Germany for the World Cup and expressed new doubts over whether the Holocaust happened....
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Taliban behead three policemen
KANDAHAR, May 28: The decapitated bodies of three policemen were recovered in Afghanistan on Sunday, while Taliban shot dead a civilian and police killed four rebels, officials said....
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Blast in Sri Lanka park kills seven
COLOMBO, May 28: The military found five bodies on Sunday in a dense national park, 175 kilometres north of Colombo, after a bomb suspected to have been planted by the LTTE went off on Saturday, killing seven tourists....
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Will a Democrat make the difference?: America’s post-September foreign policy
WASHINGTON: Could the United States be better off with a Democrat in the White House in 2009? Here are a couple of reasons the answer might be yes, even if you’re not a Democrat....
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Can Hillary make it?
WASHINGTON: When Hillary Clinton speaks, people don’t see a senator from New York. Or an ex-First Lady. They come to hear the first woman president of the United States....
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Africa battles ‘oil curse’
PARIS: Experts call it the ‘oil curse’. In Africa’s oil exporting countries, only a tiny fraction of revenues is used to fight poverty, and in many cases black gold has actually become a hurdle to development....
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Borderline: it’s not about maps
WASHINGTON: A country’s borders should not be confused with those familiar dotted lines drawn on some musty old map of nation-states. In an era of mass migration...
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