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Millions vote in India’s largest state
KANPUR (India) April 7: Millions voted on Saturday in India''s most populous state Uttar Pradesh at the start of staggered polls, as the ruling Congress party suffered a crushing election defeat in New Delhi.... 
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16 killed in Indian blast
CHENNAI (India), April 7: At least 16 people were killed in southern India when a vehicle carrying explosives blew up, police said. Police said the jeep was transporting explosives intended for clearing stones to construct roads....
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Interim govt unconstitutional: Hasina
DHAKA, April 7: In a departure from her earlier statement, Sheikh Hasina, president of Bangladesh Awami League, termed the caretaker government of Fakhruddin Ahmed ‘undemocratic and unconstitutional’....
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One die in Israel’s Gaza air raid
GAZA CITY, April 7: Israel launched an air strike against suspected Gaza militants on Saturday, killing one and wounding two, as it made good on threats to get tough over persistent rocket fire from the territory....
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7 killed in Taliban attack
KANDAHAR: Dozens of Taliban militants attacked a US-funded mine-clearing team in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing three deminers, three guards and one female passer-by, police said....
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Iran denies sailors mistreated
TEHRAN, Iran, April 7: An adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad denied on Saturday that 15 British sailors and marines seized by Iran had been mistreated, saying they had made such claims under pressure from their superiors....
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Another teen killed in London violence
LONDON, April 7: A 14-year-old boy was knifed to death and a young mother-to-be fatally shot in her home, London police said on Saturday, amid fears that the city''s knife and gun culture is spiralling out of control....
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India’s FM hurt in car accident
NEW DELHI, April 7: Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee suffered a head injury when his car had a head-on collision with a truck at Nakashipara in Nadia district of West Bengal on Saturday evening....
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US team heads to N. Korea
WASHINGTON, April 7: A high-level US delegation departed for Pyongyang on Saturday after Washington announced advances that could pave the way toward North Korea dismantling its nuclear weapons arsenal....
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Bush, Congress clash over foreign policy
WASHINGTON: US foreign policy and the US role in the Middle East have become prizes in a tug-of-war between a White House passionate about clinging to its authority, and a hostile congressional majority already focused on the 2008 US presidential race....
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Calming the waters in the Gulf
WASHINGTON: Here’s an American acronym we ought to translate promptly into the Iranian language of Farsi: INCSEA. It’s shorthand for a May 1972 agreement between the United States and the Soviet...
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Saarc made little effort to fight terrorism
NEW DELHI: Conflict-ridden South Asian nations made little headway in fighting terrorism or boosting trade at a summit this week despite repeated calls for action, analysts said on Thursday....
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Ugly reality of Iraq war confronts British soldiers
LONDON: As 15 sailors and marines were celebrating their release by the Iranian government, the bloody reality of the conflict in which they were embroiled struck British soldiers on Thursday on the streets of southern Iraq....
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Polish town faces property lawsuit
LIDZBARK WARMINSKI (Poland): Hundreds of inhabitants of this northern Polish town are on the sharp end of a legal battle rooted in Germany’s World War II defeat, a case that has revived barely-buried fear and hatred....
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Learning English for happiness
LOS ANGELES: I’ve been taking lessons to learn Spanish for a while now, and it’s given me a new understanding of how difficult it is to learn a new language....
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Memory loss treatment now possible
LONDON: A memory-enhancing pill capable of boosting people’s ability to learn and remember is a step closer following the discovery of a gene in the brain that plays a crucial role in memory formation....
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Move to protect lions
AHMEDABAD: Hundreds of new guards and closed-circuit TV cameras will be used to protect rare Asiatic lions threatened by poachers and villagers in their only natural habitat, Indian officials said on Saturday....
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Sherpas to tackle Everest
KATHMANDU: As teams set off from Nepal''s capital to begin acclimatising for the main Everest climbing season in May, one group already knows they have what it takes to reach the top of the world....
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