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Fighting rages in Afghanistan, scores killed
KABUL, July 7: Scores of rebels and a dozen local police and soldiers were killed in an upsurge of fighting in Afghanistan in the past two days that also left several civilians dead, officials said on Saturday.... 
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14 get life in India for massacre of Muslims
NEW DELHI, July 7: A court sentenced 14 people to life in prison on Saturday for their involvement in the killing of 116 Muslims during a month of rioting that left close to 2,000 dead in eastern India in 1989....
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Clashes in Nepal against king’s birthday party
KATHMANDU, July 7: Dozens of supporters and opponents of Nepal''s embattled King Gyanendra clashed on Saturday as the monarch threw open the palace gates to celebrate his 60th birthday, police said....
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Suspects’ father speaks out about sons
BANGALORE, July 7: The Indian father of two suspects in the British car-bomb plot has confirmed that a man who rammed a flaming car into Glasgow airport was his elder son, a newspaper said on Saturday....
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Spy scandal takes new turn
MOSCOW, July 7: A media blitz on Saturday about a Russian official who says he spied for Britain looked likely to launch the latest spy scandal between the two countries....
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Chinese uranium executive kidnapped
NIAMEY, July 7: Tuareg-led rebels in northern Niger have kidnapped a Chinese uranium executive whose company they accuse of helping to fund government arms purchases, the rebels'' leader said on Saturday....
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Lankan army claims killing 19 Tigers
COLOMBO, July 7: Fifteen Tamil Tiger rebels were shot dead as they fled from troops on tractors, the Sri Lankan government said on Saturday, while four people were killed elsewhere in the embattled island....
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Security fears haunt US diplomats
WASHINGTON: Threatened abroad, US diplomats have been hit with unprecedented security restrictions, confining many to fortress-like compounds and frustrating Bush administration efforts to get out and counter anti-US sentiment....
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Video game addiction getting worse
WASHINGTON: Addiction is a word we associate with drugs and alcohol. We think of addicts as people whose lives spin out of control. Prioritising the object of their addiction above all...
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Bush facing the agony of loneliness
WASHINGTON: President George Bush turned 61 on Friday but he had little to celebrate at the end of a week in which his isolation has been exposed as never before....
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Life on other planets may be unfamiliar
WASHINGTON: Extraterrestrial life may well be so weird we would not immediately recognise it, and scientists looking for alien life should be seeking the unfamiliar as well as the familiar, experts advised on Thursday....
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Take a deep breath and relax
NEW DELHI: Breathing controls the body’s bioelectric balance just as diet controls its biochemical balance. Deep abdominal breathing not only calms and brings emotions under conscious control, but also greatly heightens awareness, thought, and memory....
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