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Taliban extend deadline for hostages
KANDAHAR, July 22: Taliban rebels in Afghanistan on Sunday gave 23 South Korean hostages a day''s reprieve, extending a deadline by which they threatened to kill the captives if their demands were not met.... 
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Coach crash kills 26 Polish pilgrims
GRENOBLE (France), July 22: Twenty-six people were killed on Sunday when a coach carrying Polish pilgrims skidded out of control and into a ravine in the French Alps, emergency services said....
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EX-BD MP gets 20-year jail term
DHAKA, July 22: A former Bangladeshi lawmaker was on Sunday sentenced to two decades in jail by an anti-corruption court for illegally amassing more than a million dollars in cash and property, a government lawyer said....
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Israelis kill four Palestinians
GAZA CITY, July 22: At least two activists of militant Palestinian group Islamic Jihad were killed on Sunday in an Israeli air raid in the north of the Gaza Strip, medical sources said....
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Thai police clash with anti-coup protesters
BANGKOK, July 22: Protesters demonstrating against last year''s coup in Thailand clashed with police on Sunday as riot police used tear gas and shields to break up thousands of people marching through Bangkok, officials said....
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Pharaonic-era largest fort discovered
CAIRO, July 22: Egypt announced on Sunday the discovery of the largest-ever military city from the Pharaonic period on the edge of the Sinai desert, part of a series of forts that stretched to the Gaza border....
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Japan agrees to N-plant inspection
TOKYO, July 22: Japan has agreed to let UN experts inspect its largest nuclear power plant, which leaked radiation after a powerful earthquake, causing a scare, a report said....
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Democrats will press ahead on pulling troops: Reid
WASHINGTON, July 22: Senate Democrats vowed on Sunday to press ahead with legislation on pulling US troops from Iraq, despite a major defeat last week in their efforts to pass a bill....
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Putin appealing to Russian nationalism by defying West
WASHINGTON: Barely three weeks have passed since the United States and Russia angled to patch up their differences at a “lobster summit” and already new strains have exploded into the open....
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Turks cut short holidays to throng polling stations
ANKARA: The normally sleepy street in Ankara''s upmarket Gazi Osman Pasa district on Sunday was packed with cars and people heading for the polling station in a neighbourhood high school....
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Poor states battling HIV epidemic
SYDNEY: As an HIV positive woman from Papua New Guinea, Maura Elaripe Mea knows the harsh realities of living with the virus in a developing country....
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Americans can’t live without China goods
WASHINGTON: Even as protests grow about US imports from China, many Americans may find it hard to manage without the range of products that dominate or in some cases monopolise the marketplace....
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Illegal immigrants to get ID cards in Connecticut
NEW HAVEN (Conneticut): As many US cities and states arrest illegal immigrants in raids and toughen laws against them, a Connecticut city is offering to validate them under a controversial, first-in-the-nation ID card programme....
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