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Somalia fighting claims 55 lives
MOGADISHU, April 22: At least 55 people were killed on Sunday as clashes between Ethiopian forces and Islamist insurgents raged in the Somali capital, bringing the toll to more than 219 after five days of fighting.... 
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Large voter turnout in French poll
PARIS, April 22: Voters turned out en-masse in Sunday in France''s cliff-hanger presidential election, with rightwinger Nicolas Sarkozy and socialist Segolene Royal predicted to go through to the run-off ballot....
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Israeli troops kill three Palestinians
NABLUS (West Bank), April 22: Israeli troops on Sunday killed two Palestinian militants and a teenager in the occupied West Bank, bringing to nine the death toll from the bloodiest weekend of violence in months....
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Amitabh says sorry to paparazzi
MUMBAI, April 22: Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan apologised to Indian journalists on Sunday after several photographers were beaten by gun-toting guards for trying to take pictures of his newly married son and his bride....
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Bombings and chaos blight polls in Nigeria
LAGOS: Nigeria’s chaotic presidential and parliamentary elections began on Saturday with a failed attempt to blow up the country’s election headquarters by using a petrol tanker as a bomb — and...
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Gordon Brown gets ready for top job
LONDON: My good friend Gordon Brown has broad shoulders and needs them. The man who has wanted to lead his party and his country for so long faces formidable tasks, not...
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Markets full of vendors in new capital
NAYPYIDAW (Myanmar): Myanmar’s dusty new capital Naypyidaw is filled with glum civil servants shuttling between their stifling new apartment blocks and faceless ministries....
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US deadlocked in linguistic debate: The politics of saying ‘genocide’
LOS ANGELES: On Tuesday, President Bush will be obliged, by law, to wrap his double-talking mouth around one of the most curiously persistent debates in modern geopolitics: Whether to call a 92-year-old genocide a “genocide.”...
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Disappearing bees mystify scientists
WASHINGTON: Go to work, come home. Go to work, come home. Go to work — and vanish without a trace....
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