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Afghanistan parliament revises amnesty bill
KABUL, March 10: The Afghan parliament passed a revised bill on Saturday that called for amnesty for groups involved in war crimes but also recognised the victims’ right to seek justice, lawmakers said.... 
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Sanctions against Iran opposed
UNITED NATIONS, March 10: China and Russia on Friday took a strong position against the Western nations’ proposal to impose additional sanctions against Iran as the talks between five permanent members...
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Chavez leads anti-Bush rally in Argentina
BUENOS AIRES, March 10: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez led a stadium full of Argentine leftists in screaming “Gringo go home” as US President George W. Bush arrived in nearby Uruguay on Friday on a tour of Latin America....
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Four die in Afghanistan bomb blast
KABUL: A roadside bomb killed four Afghan militia soldiers allied to the US-led forces in south-eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said....
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Germany given deadline
DUBAI: A little-known Iraqi Islamist militant group said on Saturday it would kill two hostages, a German woman and her son, in 10 days if Berlin did not withdraw its troops from Afghanistan....
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Lawmakers seek checks on FBI
WASHINGTON, March 10: US lawmakers, furious over reports that the FBI has repeatedly broken the law for obtaining private information about tens of thousands of people, threatened on Saturday to limit the agency’s anti-terror powers....
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World Cup to hit British economy: study
LONDON, March 10: The Cricket World Cup, due to start next week and last almost two months, could hit Britain’s economic productivity by $521 million, according to an independent study published on Saturday....
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‘World’s oldest person’ dies in El Salvador
SAN SALVADOR, March 10: A Salvadoran woman believed to be 128 years old and possibly the world’s oldest person, has died, a family friend said on Friday....
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Woman weds corpse in India
AHMEDABAD, March 10: An Indian woman, despairing over her lover’s accidental death when he fell down a well soon after their engagement, insisted on ceremonially marrying his corpse just minutes before the cremation....
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Sacred site to be ‘cleansed’ after Bush visit
GUATEMALA CITY, March 10: Mayan leaders will spiritually ‘cleanse’ ancient ruins in Guatemala after a visit by US President George W. Bush, unpopular here because of foreign policies going back to Central America’s civil wars....
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Man survives crash, faces nightmare
KUALA LUMPUR, March 10: The survivor of a midnight car crash in Malaysia has awoken in a hospital to learn that his brother drove the other car and died in the freak collision....
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Radicals disapprove of Bush’s visit to South America
MONTEVIDEO (USA): US President George W. Bush’s arrival in Uruguay on Friday has created quite a stir in the leftwing coalition that is governing this South American country for the first time ever....
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Darfuris plead with UN troops for help
ARDAMATA CAMP (Sudan): Four years after the Darfur conflict erupted, new refugees continue to pour into growing makeshift camps telling of murder, pillage and rape. In Ardamata in West Darfur, thousands...
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Threat of war looms over Kurdish heartland
QANDIL MOUNTAINS (Iraq-Iran-Turkey): The fragile quiet in this no-man’s-land is broken by a young fighter shooting into the air at a regular morning ceremony to “commemorate martyrs”....
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Brain scans unseen images: study
LONDON: Subliminal messages do leave a mark on the brain, say scientists. Using brain scanners, they found we often record images we are not even aware of having seen....
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Parent-teacher meetings go high-tech
LOS ANGELES: Even schoolyard bake sales have gone high-tech. In an increasingly wired world, parent-teacher associations (PTAs) -- the traditional purveyors of cookie and lemonade stands -- have morphed into sophisticated, technology-oriented organisations....
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Zimbabwe takes to Chinese language
HARARE (Zimbabwe): She may have forged a successful career in international business but Zimbabwean Pamela Chigwida had no qualms about taking on a new challenge -- learning Chinese at the newly opened Confucius Institute in Harare....
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Condition for Italian reporter’s release
SPIN BOLDAK: The Taliban called on Saturday for the withdrawal of Italian troops from Afghanistan to pave the way for the release of an Italian reporter they are holding on charges of spying....
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US advances clocks
WASHINGTON: Americans, always on the lookout for a painless path to conservation, can celebrate this weekend when they will cut greenhouse gas emissions by simply pushing forward the hands on their clocks....
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Anti-clemency demo
MADRID: Waving Spanish flags, right-wingers staged a mass demonstration here on Saturday against the socialist government’s decision to release on parole a Basque separatist prisoner jailed for 25 murders....
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