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31 pilgrims among 58 killed in Iraq violence
BAGHDAD, March 11: Insurgent attacks claimed another 58 Iraqi lives on Sunday, including 31 Shia pilgrims killed in a car bomb attack on a convoy returning from Karbala.... 
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Baghdad conference constructive: Iran
TEHRAN, March 11: Iran''s Foreign Ministry on Sunday said an international conference in Baghdad that saw Tehran and Washington hold direct talks for the first time since the 2003 US-led invasion...
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Policeman kills five colleagues in Delhi
NEW DELHI, March 11: An Indian police officer shot dead five of his colleagues on Sunday after an argument outside the bank they were guarding, officials said....
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Chirac bows out of politics
PARIS, March 11: President Jacques Chirac announced on Sunday that he will not stand as a candidate in next month''s presidential elections, ending a career of more than 40 years at the top of French politics....
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Iranian defector well acquainted with nuke sites: report
WASHINGTON, March 11: An Iranian general, who defected to the West, may be in possession of information that could be useful in possible military action against Iran’s nuclear installations, media reports said on Sunday....
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Israel ready to ‘treat seriously’ Saudi peace plan
JERUSALEM, 11 March : Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday said he was ready to ''''treat seriously'''' a dormant Saudi initiative calling for a comprehensive peace agreement between Israel and...
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Militants’ threat to Germany, Austria
DUBAI, March 11: Islamist militants threatened to attack Germany and Austria if they do not pull their troops out of Afghanistan, in a statement read out on Sunday by a masked man on an Al Qaeda linked website....
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Laos, 11th country hit by bird flu
BANGKOK: A spell of good fortune that southeast Asia’s poorest country enjoyed for three years ran out this month. Laos has become the 11th country in the world to record a human death from the bird flu virus....
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The ‘surge’ in Iraq is succeeding: A new chapter in the story
WASHINGTON: A front-page story in The Post last week suggested that the Bush administration has no back up plan in case the surge in Iraq doesn’t work....
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Can election bring about positive change in Iraq?
WASHINGTON: Rome wasn’t built in a day, but if this new Congress had been its architect, it might have been. It has been just 66 days since Congress changed hands, and already the results are remarkable....
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Walking the best exercise
LOS ANGELES: Studies investigating the health wonders of exercise keep rolling in. But just like with eating habits, physical activity habits are tough to study in gold-standard, randomised clinical trials —...
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Rail link promises good future for Tibet
LHASA (China): Eight months after its historic opening the railway to Tibet has already brought economic benefits to the remote region....
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A Barbie doll clinic
DUESSELDORF (Germany): Where do all the broken, balding Barbie dolls go?...
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Muslim converts can retain surnames
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Muslim converts in the northern state of Perlis will now be allowed to retain their family names, instead of changing it to “Abdullah” following a state religious edict, reports on Sunday said....
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Sparta war epic ‘300’conquers box office
WASHINGTON: The Sparta war epic “300,” the story of the 300 Spartan soldiers who fought off the Persians in the legendary Battle of Thermopylae, conquered the North American box office over...
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Travel ban on women lifted
TRIPOLI: Libya on Sunday backtracked on a decision to ban women under 40 years old from leaving the country unless they were accompanied by a close male relative....
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BD-India train service
DHAKA: Bangladesh and India will restore direct passenger train services within the next three months after a gap of more than four decades, an official said on Sunday, adding technical work has already begun....
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Motorist kills six in Mumbai
NEW DELHI: A woman and her daughter died when a taxi driver ran over six homeless people sleeping on a sidewalk in India''s financial capital of Mumbai, police said....
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