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Three years needed to meet goals in Iraq: US
BAGHDAD, Jan 7: The new Commander of US combat forces in Iraq said on Sunday it may take two to three years to meet American goals but that an increasingly independent... 
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Apologies to slain soldiers’ families
WASHINGTON, Jan 7: Senior US generals will apologise to the families of 75 dead and about 200 wounded army officers for sending them letters that asked them to consider returning to military service....
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57 die in India due to cold
LUCKNOW, Jan 7: The death toll from a cold snap since the start of the month in northern India rose to 57 on Sunday as 13 more people died over the weekend, officials said....
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Polish archbishop resigns in spying row
WARSAW, Jan 7: The newly-appointed archbishop of Warsaw resigned on Sunday after admitting he spied for Poland''s former communist regime, in a major embarrassment for the Vatican and the powerful Polish Catholic Church....
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US troops confiscate Saddam’s jail notes
AMMAN, Jan 7: The US military in Iraq has confiscated Saddam Hussein''s books as well as notes and poems he wrote in jail to “screen” them before returning them to his lawyers, one of his attorneys said on Sunday....
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Security for Asean summit beefed up
CEBU (Philippines) Jan 7: Philippines authorities have ramped up security for this week''s summit of Southeast Asian leaders, saying on Sunday a terror attack could not be ruled out although there was no specific threat....
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Maid kills sponsor’s son in Kuwait
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 7: A Filipina maid, allegedly murdered the six-year-old son of her Kuwaiti sponsor and stabbed other two before attempting to commit suicide by jumping from the roof of a house, security sources said....
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Positive signals for Congress
LOS ANGELES: After 12 years in the political wilderness, Democrats in the House of Representatives can be excused the hoopla and hokeyness that marked their first day of control....
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70-year-olds marry each other’s young daughters
RIYADH, Jan 7: A simple case of ''you marry my daughter and I''ll marry yours’. Two Riyadh business partners, in their 70s, have married the teenage daughters of each other, to...
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Herald of growth in future: The first 100-hour package
WASHINGTON: Nancy Pelosi is on the clock. During the 2006 congressional contest that culminated with the California Democrat becoming the first female House speaker, Pelosi initially said she would take the campaign “one day at a time.”...
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Cosmic rays put electronic equipment at risk
MARSEILLE, France: On May 18 2003, officials overseeing an election in Schaerbeek, a suburb of Brussels, got a shock. An electronic vote-counting machine declared that 4,096 more people had cast their vote than the ballot slips testified....
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Pelosi, Patrick — shrinking racial, gender divide
WASHINGTON: It was, superficially, pure coincidence that Nancy Pelosi and Deval Patrick took their precedent-setting oaths of office at almost the same hour on Thursday. Pelosi became the first female speaker...
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Death of freedom
LONDON: New year after year starts with new records of pain and loss among journalists. So 167 reporters, editors, cameramen and translators in 37 countries died during 2006 in the line of duty (according to the International News Safety Institute)....
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Plastic surgery a dangerous craze in Vietnam
HO CHI MINH CITY: Tram, a restaurant owner in Vietnam’s largest city, is not stingy when it comes to being beautiful. She has just had her eyebrows, eyelids, neck and nose done....
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