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Iraq blast kills eight US troops
BAGHDAD, May 6: Eight American soldiers were killed in Iraq on Sunday, including six who died along with a European journalist in a roadside bomb attack north of Baghdad, the US military said.... 
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Nine killed in French military plane crash
CAIRO, May 6: Nine members of a multinational peacekeeping force, eight French nationals and a Canadian, were killed on Sunday when their plane crashed during an emergency landing in Egypt''s Sinai peninsula....
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8 policemen die in Afghan ambush
HERAT, May 6: Taliban militants ambushed a police patrol in western Afghanistan, killing eight policemen and losing at least four of their own fighters, police said on Sunday....
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12 hurt in Assam blast
GUWAHATI: At least 12 people, including two paramilitary personnel, were wounded on Sunday in an explosion at a marketplace in India’s Assam state, police said....
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Heavy fighting in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, May 6: Tamil Tiger rebels and government forces were locked in combat in Sri Lanka’s northeast on Sunday with both sides claiming heavy losses against each other....
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Northern Ireland set for new dawn
LONDON: Northern Ireland will inaugurate on Tuesday the historic power-sharing government it hopes will finally lock in peace in the province and bury decades of sectarian bloodshed and terrorism....
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Mirren declines queen’s dinner invitation
LONDON: Actress Helen Mirren, who won an Oscar for her film portrayal of Britain''s Queen Elizabeth II, has turned down an invitation for dinner at Buckingham Palace, the Mail on Sunday newspaper reported....
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Cannabis seized
TEHRAN, May 6: Iranian police have seized a stash of almost eight tonnes of cannabis in a restive eastern province, the IRNA reported on Sunday....
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Italy bans lanterns in Chinese restaurants
ROME: The local government of Treviso, in northern Italy, has ordered the city’s Chinese restaurants to remove red lanterns from their windows because they look too “oriental”....
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US court shakes up patent law
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court has shaken up the standard for patents in rulings that could have far-reaching implications for the technology sector, but also other industries such as pharmaceuticals....
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Israel in no mood to give up N-monopoly
JERUSALEM: When Egypt and Syria launched a surprise joint offensive in 1973, many Israelis braced for a fight to the finish....
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BD’s anti-corruption plan hits snags
DHAKA: A plan by Bangladesh’s emergency government to clean up the country’s notoriously corrupt and dysfunctional politics once and for all has been hit by a series of setbacks, analysts said....
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Selling CIA secrets is a slam dunk
LOS ANGELES: When “The Invisible Government,” the book about US intelligence I co-authored with Thomas B. Ross, was published in 1964, the CIA considered buying up all the copies to keep them out of bookstores....
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Cash, food, knickers used to woo voters
SAN ISIDRO (Philippines): Campaigning for local and congressional polls is rolling into its final week in the Philippines with candidates dispensing cash, food, mascots and even their own brand of underwear to woo voters....
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