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Shilpa wins UK reality TV show
LONDON, Jan 29: Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty won the “Celebrity Big Brother” reality television show in Britain, earning praise on Monday for the graceful way she endured allegedly racist bullying....
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36 killed in Iraq attacks
BAGHDAD, Jan 29: A series of mortar, bomb and gun attacks across Iraq killed at least 36 people and wounded scores on Monday, security officials said....
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Ex-soldier admits to killing uncle, aunt
LONDON, Jan 29: A Gulf War veteran who suffered mental problems after leaving the army admitted on Monday shooting dead four members of his family at close range with a handgun fitted with a silencer....
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Climate change hitting developing countries worst: UN
JAKARTA, Jan 29: Climate change is having an increasing impact around the world, with developing countries the worst hit and least capable of defending themselves, a top UN climate change official said on Monday....
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Myanmar crackdown forces Indian insurgents to run
GUWAHATI (India), Jan 29: A major military crackdown by Myanmar has sent Indian separatists fleeing and left a growing death toll, a rebel leader told AFP on Monday....
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Asians graduate in Australia despite bad English: study
SYDNEY, Jan 29: More than one-third of foreign students graduating from Australian universities, mainly Asians, have such poor English skills they should never have been admitted, research released on Monday showed....
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Jubeir to be Saudi envoy to US
RIYADH, Jan 29: Saudi Arabia has nominated Adel al-Jubeir, an adviser to King Abdullah, as its new ambassador to the United States, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Monday....
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China on track to become top tourist destination
MADRID, Jan 29: China could surpass Spain as the world''s second most popular tourist destination by 2010, and draw level with France by 2020, the United Nations World Tourism Organisation said on Monday....
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Afghan secret policemen’s plea rejected
AMSTERDAM, Jan 29: The Dutch appeal court on Monday upheld jail sentences against two former top Afghan secret policemen convicted of war crimes and torturing opponents of Afghanistan''s communist government during the 1980s....
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Militants free 125 criminals in Nigeria
PORT HARCOURT (Nigeria), Jan 29: Militants freed 125 suspected criminals when they stormed a police complex in the oil capital Port Harcourt, Nigerian police said on Monday....
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Four shot dead in Assam
GUWAHATI, Jan 30: Four people including a ruling Congress politician were killed in India''s northeastern state of Assam in the latest wave of bombings and shoot-outs, officials said on Monday....
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Curfew imposed after communal riots in India
LUCKNOW, Jan 29: Indian authorities have imposed a curfew in parts of a northern city, in an effort to stem Hindu-Muslim riots triggered by the killing of a man over the weekend, an official said on Monday....
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Libya not to execute medics
SOFIA, Jan 29: Libya will not execute five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death last month, the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi said in a newspaper interview, calling the verdicts unfair....
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Karzai cannot afford to have iron fists
KABUL: Few people would envy Hamid Karzai. The Afghan president finds himself grappling with maintaining stability in the capital while fighting grows ever bloodier in the south....
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Jordan closes its doors to Iraqi refugees
AMMAN: Hundreds of thousands have fled the violence in Iraq to seek refuge in Jordan, but refugees are now beginning to find its borders closing....
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Living in one’s own country is not always beneficial
LOS ANGELES: I find myself confronted with a “trilemma” — a three-horned dilemma. If, as seems likely, Scottish voters choose to mark the tercentenary of the Act of Union by voting...
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The role of neighbours is key to Iraq solution
DAVOS: Iraq’s leaders are facing an acid test in coming weeks as the Iraqi and US military launch their new security programme to flush out militants and death squads district by district....
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Vanishing foreign correspondents
WASHINGTON: When my wife and I worked as foreign correspondents for The Post in Tokyo 20 years ago, we befriended and competed against a host of other American reporters, including two...
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Big cabinet imperils Lanka’s stability
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s minority government has weakened the opposition with a spate of defections and won a crucial simple majority in parliament, but analysts say the turncoats will only trigger more instability....
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US scientist adds caffeine to baked goods
RALEIGH (USA): A molecular scientist who moonlights as a cafe owner developed a way to add caffeine to baked goods, one that eliminates the natural, bitter taste of caffeine....
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