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12 killed as tsunami swallows villages
HONIARA, April 2: A powerful earthquake and tsunami struck the tiny Solomon Islands on Monday, swallowing entire villages and killing at least 12 people with many more missing.... 
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American goes missing in Iran
WASHINGTON, April 2: The tensions between the United States and Iran took yet another twist on Monday when Washington asked Tehran to provide information about an American who went missing in Iran several weeks ago....
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BD army chief for new brand of democracy
DHAKA, April 2: Bangladesh Army Lt-Gen Moeen U Ahmed on Monday said the country must build its own democratic system with new leadership at all levels....
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Al Qaeda spawns new leadership: NYT
NEW YORK, April 2: To the ‘surprise and dismay’ of the American intelligence agencies, Al Qaeda leadership has reconstituted itself by creating a new generation of leaders who have taken control...
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Sri Lanka’s bus blast claims 16 lives
COLOMBO, April 2: Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers bombed a civilian bus in island’s restive east on Monday, killing 16 people, mostly women and children during a Buddhist holiday, military officials said, but the rebels denied involvement....
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US court rejects for Guantanamo men’s plea
WASHINGTON, April 2: The US Supreme Court on Monday shut the doors of American civil courts on Guantanamo Bay prisoners who wanted to challenge the Bush administration’s decision to keep them in prolonged confinements without charge....
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Change in constitution to impede political reform in Egypt
WASHINGTON: On March 19, Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party used its majority in the People’s Assembly to approve amendments to the constitution, the effect of which will be to further discourage meaningful political reform in Egypt....
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Unemployment hurting Kabul in Taliban fight
TIRIN KOT (Afghanistan): The new, white Australian-built Trade Training School of Tirin Kot is spotless, pristine — and tucked safely away behind blast walls in the middle of a massive military camp in southern Afghanistan....
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New book reflects on fate of the West
NEW YORK: Clive James took 40 years to write his massive new book of essays “Cultural Amnesia” but the 67-year-old Australian critic, memoirist, poet and novelist is already thinking of writing a second volume....
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Lawlessness in Gaza pushing Palestine toward collapse
NEW YORK: Factional fighting, political bickering and a failure to establish law and order have turned Gaza into a symbol of Palestinian shame and are pushing the Palestinian national movement toward collapse, according to prominent Palestinian intellectuals....
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Online dating all about money and looks
WASHINGTON: Wanted: sugar mamas, or women over the age of 40 with at least five million dollars in the bank, interested in dating gorgeous men aged 29 and under....
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Nationalism first lesson in Turkish schools
ISTANBUL: “Happy is he who says he is a Turk,” pipe hundreds of uniformed children in unison, lined up in the playground before a golden statue of Turkey’s revered father Ataturk, for a daily pledge of hard work and sacrifice....
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Kuwaiti minister refuses to wear veil
KUWAIT: The Kuwait’s new woman education minister refused to wear a veil as she took an oath when the Opec oil producer’s new government was sworn in on Monday, leading to protests by several Islamist parliamentarians....
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Olmert invites Arab leaders to meet him
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert responded on Sunday to a revived Arab land-for-peace plan by inviting Arab leaders to meet him for a regional conference....
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Gates visits clinics in Vietnam
HANOI: Microsoft chairman and top philanthropist Bill Gates was in Vietnam on Monday for a low-key visit to study the communist country''s lauded childhood vaccination programme, officials said....
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Death sought for ‘Chemical Ali’
BAGHDAD: Prosecutors on Monday sought the death penalty for Saddam Hussein’s cousin, widely known as Chemical Ali for his use of poison gas against the regime’s opponents and once one of the most feared men in Iraq....
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