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Iraq violence leaves nine dead: 8,000 guards deployed for Ashura
BAGHDAD/ KARBALA, Jan 20: At least nine people were killed across Iraq on Saturday, including three died when a salvo of mortar rounds slammed into a Sunni district of Baghdad, security sources and a medic said.The... 
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Sri Lankan troops make inroads into rebel area
COLOMBO, Jan 20: Sri Lankan troops on Saturday moved deeper into rebel territory after the capture of a strategic coastal town from Tamil Tigers in fighting that killed 376 combatants, the defence ministry said....
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‘Indian rebels behind BD grenade attack’
DHAKA, Jan 20: A separatist commander in northeast India confessed his group was behind an attack aimed at a former Bangladesh prime minister last year in which 20 died, a report said on Saturday....
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Castro fighting for his life: Chavez
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 20: Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro is fighting for his life, his friend and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said. “He''s back in Sierra Maestra and locked in...
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UK police identify Litvinenko killer suspect
LONDON, Jan 20: British police have made a breakthrough and identified the man they believe poisoned Alexander Litvinenko, a friend of the murdered former Russian spy told Saturday’s edition of The Times newspaper....
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‘Islamism’ will prevail over West, says scholar
LONDON, Jan.20: Mayor of London Ken Livingstone lived up to his reputation of being a man of peace and liberal ideas as he led a highly charged debate here on Saturday...
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Syria pledges to help fight terrorism in Iraq
DAMASCUS, Jan 20: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad pledged on Saturday to work with the Iraqi authorities to wipe out “terrorism,” on the final day of a landmark visit by Iraqi counterpart Jalal Talabani....
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Ethiopian convoy ambushed in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU, Jan 20: An Ethiopian military convoy was ambushed in a new round of deadly violence in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Saturday, hours after the African Union agreed to send peacekeepers to Somalia....
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Thousands attend social forum
NAIROBI, Jan 20: Anti-globalisation activists marched on Saturday through Africa''s largest slum, calling for an end to conflict and a new war on poverty at the start of a major protest against global capitalism....
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Uproar in Turkey over newsman’s murder
ISTANBUL, Jan 20: Turkish police on Saturday released images of a man suspected of killing journalist Hrant Dink, one of Turkey''s most prominent ethnic Armenians, as the government came under fire for failing to protect him despite nationalist threats....
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Opposition in Lebanon calls for strike
BEIRUT, Jan 20: The Lebanese opposition called on Saturday for a one-day general strike, stepping up a protest campaign to bring down the Western-backed government that has paralysed the nation''s leadership for weeks....
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Yunus terms Bush terrible leader
MADRID, Jan 20: US President George W. Bush is a terrible leader who has done tremendous damage worldwide, Bangladeshi Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus said in an interview published on Saturday....
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Three killed in Assam blasts
GUWAHATI, Jan 20: At least three people were killed and 15 injured in two explosions and a shootout on Saturday in India''s insurgency-hit northeastern state of Assam, police said....
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Five Iranians to be ‘freed soon’
TEHRAN, Jan 20: Iran’s ambassador to Iraq said five Iranians detained by US forces in the northern Iraqi town of Arbil will be freed by Friday, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday....
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Youths conspicuous by their absence: Anti-war movement
WASHINGTON: Recently I finished teaching a freshman seminar at Harvard called “From Reform to Revolution: Youth Culture in the 1960s.” When I built the syllabus, I asked students to ponder a...
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The power of negative thinking
LOS ANGELES: When people ask me why I’m so negative, I always tell them I’m simply looking out for my best interests and everyone else’s. Like instant mashed potatoes (which, let’s...
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Indians’ influence is growing in US
LOS ANGELES: The 2.2 million Indian Americans in the US constitute a model minority, highly educated and well paid. And now, following in the footsteps of earlier immigrant groups such as...
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Fast food is plentiful
LOS ANGELES: In California, people are more than four times as likely to find a fast-food restaurant or convenience store than a grocery or produce store, according to a study released on Saturday by the California Centre for Public Health Advocacy....
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Violence dominates Chinese cinema
BEIJING: Show-stopping scenes of regal power and wirework martial arts in Chinese period dramas might be all the rage in the West but the success stories of these best-selling films have...
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Afghan women risk their reputation for art sake
HERAT: In the western Afghan city of Herat, where there are no cinemas and women only venture outside wearing head-to-toe veils, Rahima, Rita, Mariam and Monirah are women of ill repute....
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