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20 foreigners kidnapped in Nigeria
LAGOS: Armed men abducted at least 20 foreigners in three separate incidents in southern Nigeria overnight to Thursday in the latest spate of violence to hit Africa''s biggest oil producer.... 
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Former Afghan PM shot dead
KABUL, May 3: Gunmen shot and killed a lawmaker who had briefly served as the country''s prime minister during Afghanistan''s civil war, officials said on Wednesday....
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Snap polls in Turkey on July 22
ANKARA, May 3: Turkey''s parliament approved on Thursday a ruling party call for an early general election in a bid to end a damaging crisis over attempts to elect a former Islamist as president....
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Fierce gunbattle at Havana airport
HAVANA, May 3: A fierce gun battle broke out at Havana''s Jose Marti airport on Thursday between police and three fugitive soldiers attempting to commandeer an aeroplane to leave the country, an airport source said....
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Olmert faces street protests over Lebanon war
TEL AVIV, May 3: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert faced a new battle on Thursday, with tens of thousands of protesters expected to call on him to quit at the first mass street rally since a scathing Lebanon war report....
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Sri Lanka shuts airport fearing rebel attack
COLOMBO, May 3: Sri Lanka will close its only international airport at night from next week following a spate of nocturnal bombing raids by Tamil Tiger aircraft, a top aviation official told reporters on Thursday....
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Ancient caves, paintings found in Nepal
KATHMANDU, May 3: Explorers have discovered a series of caves decorated with ancient Buddhist paintings, set in sheer cliffs in Nepal’s remote Himalayan north, leaving archaeologists excited and puzzled....
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The Bollywood divide
MUMBAI, May 3: A raging rivalry between two of India’s biggest screen stars has worsened after a marriage in one of their families, obliged actors and producers in the world’s largest film industry to begin taking sides....
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Police used excessive force to disperse rally
WASHINGTON, April 3: Authorities have launched three investigations into police officers’ tactics in dispersing an immigration rally in Los Angeles earlier this week....
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Yunus drops political plan
DHAKA, May 3: Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, who late last year announced plans to form a party to bail out the country from confrontational politics, said on Thursday he has decided to give up the plan....
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France planet-hunter makes first find
PARIS: A French space probe designed to look for worlds orbiting other stars has made its first find, a “hot Jupiter” that zips closely around a sun some 1,500 light years...
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US ‘biggest offender’ of cliamate: WWF
BANGKOK: The United States, the world’s top belcher of greenhouse gas emissions, is “the biggest culprit” of climate change, the WWF said on Thursday, urging Washington to take swift action against global warming....
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Turkey living in ‘interesting times’
ANKARA: The Chinese have a saying, ‘May you live in interesting times’. It’s a curse. Turkey has been living in “interesting times” for the past two weeks....
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Civilian deaths threaten Afghan future
KABUL: Mounting civilian casualties in military operations against the Taliban are turning already wary Afghans against foreign troops based here and eroding the fragile support for President Hamid Karzai, analysts say....
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In Britain, ‘Ninjabis’ learn to fight back
LONDON: Anyone tempted to pick on a headscarf-wearing Muslim woman better hope they don’t run into a Ninjabi....
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Israel’s leadership crisis to worsen ME situation
WASHINGTON: The scathing interim report issued this week by an Israeli panel that reviewed the decisions leading to the country’s war with Hezbollah last summer may spell doom for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s leadership....
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Blogging economists attract web crowds
CHICAGO: To debate leading economists on hot topics like globalisation and free trade, you can hang out at Harvard — or log on to a growing group of brainy blogs....
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