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Bomb attack kills 50 in Iraq
ARBIL (Iraq), May 13: A suicide bomber killed at least 50 people on Sunday when he ploughed his explosives-laden SUV into local administrative offices in the northern Iraqi town of Makhmur, officials said.... 
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Ahmadinejad calls for US forces to leave Gulf
ABU DHABI, May 13: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for an end to the presence of US troops in the Gulf during a visit to the US-allied United Arab Emirates on Sunday, an Iranian news agency reported....
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Fresh secular rally in Turkey
IZMIR (Turkey), May 13: Hundreds of thousands of pro-secular Turks rallied in the Aegean city of Izmir on Sunday, keeping up pressure on the Islamist-rooted government after political turmoil forced early elections in July....
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Four die in Gaza shootings
GAZA CITY, May 13: Four people were killed in the bloodiest day of Palestinian infighting in weeks on Sunday as deadly clashes between Fatah and Hamas gunmen erupted in Gaza City after a senior militant was shot dead....
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Irish PM defends payments from businessman
DUBLIN, May 13: Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said on Sunday he had taken no bribes and was suffering “great personal turmoil” when he accepted cash from businessmen during the breakdown of his marriage in the 1990s....
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Monk shot dead in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: A Buddhist priest was shot dead on Sunday morning in his temple in the volatile eastern Trincomalee district, the defence ministry said....
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Jewish teacher killed in Russia
MOSCOW: A Jewish teacher in the Russian city of St Petersburg has been stabbed to death and a leading rabbi said on Sunday he suspected the attack was ethnically motivated....
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Protest against US bases
TOKYO: Thousands of protesters circled a United States military airbase in Okinawa on Sunday, to urge its forces to leave ahead of the 35th anniversary of the southern island chain''s return to Japan....
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India’s low caste party widens base
LUCKNOW: A party of “untouchables” took power in India''s most populous state on Sunday, the first time a political group championing Hinduism''s lowest caste has headed a majority government in the country....
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Brown to play to his strengths
LONDON: British finance minister Gordon Brown will portray himself as a sober, intellectually rigorous politician of substance in his campaign to succeed Prime Minister Tony Blair, analysts said....
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Philippines on alert ahead of elections
MANILA: The Philippines military went on alert as voters prepared for national elections on Monday following a blood-soaked campaign season that saw more than 110 people killed....
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Rice heads into heavy diplomatic seas on: Trip to Moscow
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice faces one of her most delicate diplomatic missions yet when she flies into Moscow on Monday to face down rising Russian anger over US policy in eastern Europe....
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BD seeks army’s help or voter list
DHAKA: Bangladesh''s election commission engaged the country''s army on Sunday for help in drawing up an accurate voters'' list so it can hold national polls next year....
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Algiers slum has hope of change at polls
ALGIERS: Visit the tin-roofed shacks of Algiers'' “Kamikaze Slum” and you''ll find plenty of poverty and discontent. What is harder to uncover is any expectation that parliamentary polls this week will bring change for the better....
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East Timor to go for reforms
DILI: Incoming East Timor president Jose Ramos-Horta''s chances of achieving major reform in the troubled tiny state hinge on the outcome of next month''s parliamentary elections, analysts said....
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