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BD polls unlikely before next year
DHAKA, March 17: Parliamentary elections in Bangladesh, postponed in January amid widespread street violence, may now not take place until early next year, a key official at the Election Commission suggested.... 
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16 die in Indian bus accident
KOLKATA, March 17: At least 16 people were killed and 67 injured on Saturday in eastern India when their bus slid into a ditch after it tried to avoid an oncoming vehicle, police said....
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Germany warns US against move to split Europe
BERLIN, March 17: Germany sent a thinly veiled warning to the United States on Saturday not to try to split Europe into “old” and “new” with its plans to deploy parts...
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West Bengal govt scraps plan for trade zone
KOLKATA, March 17: Plans will be scrapped for an industrial zone in the Indian village where police shot dead 14 residents protesting its development, the ruling party of the state said on Saturday....
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Bangladesh troops selling foodstuffs
DHAKA, March 17: Bangladesh’s army-backed interim government, which has launched a crackdown on corruption, has called in paramilitary troops to sell food and other essentials in an effort to curb prices....
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Bush threatens to veto Iraq funding
WASHINGTON, March 17: US President George W. Bush on Saturday threatened to veto emergency money for Iraq and Afghanistan if it includes measures aimed at forcing a US withdrawal or unrelated domestic spending....
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North Korea seeks money for closing nuclear plant
BEIJING, March 17: North Korea warned on Saturday it would not shut a nuclear plant until the United States lifted banking curbs, while Washington’s envoy maintained the bank issue would not kill a budding disarmament deal....
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Computer can help boost brain: study
CHICAGO, March 17: Training the brain with a computer workout program may be better than classic computer games at staving off age-related mental decline, scientists reported on Friday....
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Gonzales denies withholding information
WASHINGTON, March 17: US Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales’ former chief aide denies he purposefully withheld information from Justice Department officials who misled Congress about the firings of eight federal prosecutors....
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Almost half of Indian children suffer physical abuse: study
NEW DELHI, March 17: Almost half of Indian children surveyed for a landmark national study were physically, sexually or economically abused, according to leaked results....
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Saddam trial judge living in Britain, says paper
LONDON, March 17: The Iraqi judge who sentenced former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to death is living secretly in Britain and has applied for permission to stay, the Times newspaper reported on Saturday....
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Israel rejects Palestinian cabinet
JERUSALEM, March 17: Israel on Saturday rejected contacts with the new Palestinian unity government and urged the West to maintain its boycott against a cabinet that has not recognised the Jewish state’s right to exist....
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Christian bodies say Iraq war no crusade
WASHINGTON, March 17: Thousands of Christians protested in Washington on Saturday to show that the US-led war in Iraq is not a Christian crusade against the Muslims....
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Stolen US civil war documents sold on eBay
SAN FRANCISCO, March 17: Criminal charges were filed against a collector who stole 165 Civil War documents from the National Archives and sold them on eBay, US prosecutors said on Friday....
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India’s economic progress leaves peasants behind
NEW DELHI: By ordering police to open fire on peasants trying to protect their land from being acquired for a Special Economic Zone (SEZ), the communist government of West Bengal state...
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Iraq occupation forces Bush to forfeit dreams
WASHINGTON: Four years after he began the Iraq war, a diminished President George W. Bush has sacrificed much of his domestic agenda and eroded US credibility abroad in pursuit of the sort of nation-building he once scorned, analysts say....
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No decent reason to ban cellphones in hospitals
LONDON: There is no more anyone needs to know about the strange hybrid of medieval and futuristic that is the British government’s technology policy than to stand in the entrance of...
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Crackdown heightens Mugabe’s isolation
WASHINGTON: International condemnation is building over an incident earlier this month in which long-time Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe violently clamped down on the country’s political opposition....
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Where are they now
WASHINGTON: Following are the whereabouts of former Bush administration officials who were key figures in the planning and execution of the war in Iraq: Donald Rumsfeld, 74, secretary of defence, 2001 to 2006....
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Bush’s quotes on Iraq recalled
WASHINGTON: Following are a selection of remarks by US President George W. Bush about the Iraq war since it began in March 2003: “Major combat operations in Iraq have ended....
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