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| January 15, 2007 | Monday | Zilhaj 24, 1427 |
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Insurgents kill 26 in Iraq: 40 corpses found
MOSUL, Jan 14: Insurgents killed at least 26 people across Iraq on Sunday and police found 40 corpses in Baghdad of men shot dead execution-style in apparent sectarian attacks, security officials said.... 
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Talabani arrives in Syria
DAMASCUS, Jan 14: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani arrived in Syria on Sunday on the first such high-level visit in three decades to a country accused by the United States of fuelling the violence in his homeland....
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30 Taliban die in Afghan operatioin
KANDAHAR, Jan 14: A military operation in which a British soldier died in Afghanistan at the weekend left about 30 Taliban fighters dead, Afghan police said on Sunday....
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What prevented progress in Afghan war
LONDON, Jan14: A case is seemingly being built by the British Army to push for a President Bush style ‘surge’ in Afghanistan as a recent report by military chiefs has concluded...
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Kuwaiti royal condemned to death
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 14: A Kuwaiti court on Sunday sentenced a member of the ruling Al-Sabah family to death for drugs trafficking, a first in the oil-rich Gulf state....
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Nuclear work goes on, says Iran
TEHRAN, Jan 14: Iran on Sunday said it was continuing uranium enrichment activities in defiance of a Security Council resolution which imposed the first-ever UN sanctions against Tehran....
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Cancer-fighting eggs produced
EDINBURGH, Jan 14: Scientists have created the world’s first breed of designer chickens, genetically modified to lay eggs capable of producing drugs that fight cancer and other life-threatening diseases....
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Kidnapped boy found after four years
CHICAGO, Jan 14: A Missouri boy who disappeared in 2002 was found alive in the home of a man who had kidnapped another boy earlier this week, police said....
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Somali refugees in Kenya not willing to go back
DADAAB (Kenya): Abdan Hassan Ali has been a refugee since he was three. The bright, well-spoken and now 19-year-old Somali was top of his class at the high school he attended...
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Chinese peasants making true to life movies
JINGDEZHEN (China): Father, I Should Not Lie to You, a morality tale about a teenage girl who lies to her parents to get money for the cellphone she covets....
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Asean leaders deterred by terrorist threats
CEBU (Philippines): East Asian leaders shelved differences on Sunday to put pressure on North Korea as countries around the region prepared to wrap up days of diplomatic summits with their biggest meeting of all....
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Of the dead say nothing unless it is kind
LOS ANGELES: When Calvin Coolidge left the presidency in March 1929, having forsworn what surely would have been a re-election romp, he was basking in public adulation of a rare kind....
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Let’s hope for a miracle
WASHINGTON: During the battle of the Marne in September 1914, France’s Marshal Foch declared: “My centre is giving way, my right is retreating, situation excellent, I am attacking.”...
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Poor man’s bakery in Mumbai
MUMBAI: Tirandaaz Irani’s morning shift at the Yazdani Bakery and Restaurant in Mumbai’s historic Fort district is pretty much the same every day, and he’s hoping to keep it that way even as the city changes drastically around him....
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