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Suicide attack kills nine Afghan policemen
KABUL, April 16: A suicide bomber blew himself up among Afghan policemen doing their morning exercise in the northeastern city of Kunduz on Monday, killing nine and wounding 25, the government said.... 
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Sadr bloc pulls out of Iraqi government
BAGHDAD, April 16: Radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr pulled his six ministers out of Iraq''s beleaguered coalition government on Monday as he pushed his demand for a rapid withdrawal of US troops from the country....
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Iran won’t back down on nuclear plan: Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN, April 16: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed on Monday that Iran would not give in to Western demands over its nuclear drive, saying Tehran would “resist to the end” in the intensifying crisis....
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Four die in US storm
NEW YORK, April 16: Three people died on Sunday in a worst spring storm known as the North Easter that wreaked havoc on the East Coast, with wind gusting over 55 miles an hour and relentless rain....
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Gere in trouble after Shilpa kiss
NEW DELHI, April 16: Angry protesters in cities across India burned effigies of actor Richard Gere on Monday after he showered Bollywood starlet Shilpa Shetty with kisses at an AIDS awareness event, officials said....
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French spies knew of Al Qaeda’s plan: paper
PARIS, April 16: French secret services produced nine reports between September 2000 and August 2001 looking at the Al Qaeda threat to the United States, and knew it planned to hijack an aircraft, the French daily Le Monde said on Monday....
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Court mulls Sonia’s right to hold public office
NEW DELHI, April 16: India’s top court accepted a petition by a non-governmental group on Monday seeking to bar Sonia Gandhi, the chief of the ruling Congress party, from holding public...
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US presses Iran over missing FBI agent
WASHINGTON, April 16: The United States has pressed Iran for information about the mysterious disappearance more than a month ago of a former FBI agent during a visit to the Islamic Republic, officials said on Monday....
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US tactics against Iran faltering amid GCC reluctance
DUBAI: With members of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) urging dialogue rather than war with Iran over its nuclear programme and reluctant to allow their territories to be used in...
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World Bank scandal to affect the poor
WASHINGTON: The planet’s poorest people risk being the real losers in a scandal that has engulfed World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz, who is clinging to office after a weekend of stormy meetings....
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North Korean women defectors seeking marriage for security
SEOUL: North Koreans who have braved hardships and risked jail or torture to flee their homeland still face a daunting array of challenges when they finally arrive in South Korea....
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Italy’s pampered public sector braces for reform
ROME: Change is afoot in Italy’s public sector and most of those it would affect, from civil servants to teachers to traffic wardens, don’t like the prospect one bit....
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Political crisis tests Ukrainian democracy
KIEV: Protesters thronging the streets and politicians deadlocked in the corridors of power: while some see chaos in Ukraine, others see the painful birth of a democratic culture in the ex-Soviet state....
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Evoking a vindictive society
LONDON: You know within minutes of watching The Lives of Others, the debut feature that brought writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck an Oscar for the best foreign language film of 2006, that you are in confident, authoritative hands....
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Bosnian Muslims set up protest camp
SARAJEVO: Bosnian Muslims from the town of Srebrenica set up a protest camp in the capital Sarajevo on Monday, asking for self-rule free of the authority of the Bosnian Serbs, their wartime enemies....
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Saudi liberal re-appointed as editor
RIYADH: A pro-reform Saudi newspaper has reappointed a editor sacked four years ago for criticising Islamic hardliners, a sign that restrictions on the media are easing, the journalist said....
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Racial disparity in cancer rates
LOS ANGELES: Racial disparity in cancer rates and outcomes may be driven by genetics as well as socioeconomic factors, US researchers said on Sunday. Minorities are much more likely to develop...
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Polar bear cub Knut falls ill
BERLIN: The Berlin zoo on Monday said Knut, the cuddly polar bear cub that has become a media superstar, had fallen ill and was being treated with antibiotics....
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New cure for diabetics
NEW YORK: Doctors in Brazil may have found a cure for Type 1 diabetes using stem cells provided by the patients themselves, CBA news reported on Saturday....
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Khaleda’s second son held
DHAKA: Security forces in Bangladesh detained another son of former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia from her home in Dhaka on Monday, television channels reported. Khaleda’s elder son and apparent political...
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