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US air strikes kill 30 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Aug 8: US air strikes on Wednesday killed what the US military said were 30 militants suspected of involvement in transporting deadly roadside bombs from Iran.... 
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Concerns grow for hostages
GHAZNI, Aug 8: Concerns grew on Wednesday for 21 South Koreans threatened with death by their Taliban captors after the US and Afghan presidents vowed not to cut any deal for their release....
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New fossil finds challenge mankind’s origin patterns
PARIS, Aug 8: The discovery of two fossils has challenged the belief that our ancestors Homo erectus evolved from Homo habilis, according to an article in the British magazine Nature due out on Thursday....
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Two Koreas to hold summit in Pyongyang on 28th
SEOUL, Aug 8: North and South Korea announced on Wednesday they will hold their second-ever summit this month in an attempt to bring lasting peace to a peninsula divided for 60 years by minefields and barbed wire....
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Countdown begins for Beijing Olympics
BEIJING, Aug 8: China kicked off the final year countdown to the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday with fireworks and a spectacular ceremony on dazzlingly lit Tiananmen Square....
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China’s white dolphin vanishes after 20m years SHANGHAI, Aug 8: China''s rapid industrialisation has likely made extinct a species of fresh water dolphin that had been on Earth for over 20 million years, a marine biologist said on Wednesday....
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Sanjay takes up carpentry in jail
MUMBAI, Aug 8: Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt has chosen carpentry as prison labour for which he will get paid about half-a-dollar a day, as he begins a six-year sentence for receiving guns from gangsters, officials said on Wednesday....
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Victims cry out for food aid as health risks rise
PATNA: India and Bangladesh battled on Wednesday to deliver food and water to millions of flood victims as South Asia’s raging rivers recede leaving 1,900 dead, a trail of destruction and fear of epidemics....
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Govt apathy blamed for flood misery in India
NEW DELHI: Climate change might get some blame for South Asia’s catastrophic floods, but government ineptitude has dramatically magnified the misery facing tens of millions of people in India, aid groups and experts say....
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Disposal of bodies worries survivors
DARBHANGA (India): Sribhagwan Manjhi has taken to counting the dead bodies that float down the river since raging waters swollen by the monsoon swallowed his bamboo home in India’s Bihar state....
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Tamil party’s exit from govt a setback for Lankan president
COLOMBO: Amidst agitation for fresh polls and a steadily continuing war, the Alliance regime of President Mahinda Rajapakse hangs in balance following last Thursday’s exit of a Tamil political party from...
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Deadly clashes as UN envoy tours Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: Six people have been killed in clashes across Sri Lanka’s embattled regions as a top UN relief envoy visited, officials and rebels said on Wednesday....
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Natural disasters leave 900 dead in China
BEIJING: Natural disasters in China left nearly 900 people dead or missing in July, state media reported Wednesday, as a powerful tropical storm approached the eastern coastline.Some...
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Two die as heatwave bakes US
WASHINGTON: At least two people were reported on Wednesday to have died as an oppressive heatwave smothered the United States from the midwestern plains to the east coast city streets of Washington....
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UN force for Darfur on schedule
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations announced on Tuesday that it is on target to mobilise a mainly African hybrid peace force in the war torn Darfur region of Sudan on schedule,...
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Gunmen release six Russians in Nigeria
MOSCOW: Six Russians working for the Russian aluminium company Rusal have been freed more than two months after they were kidnapped in Nigeria''s oil-rich south, the company said Wednesday....
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500 police torture cases in Egypt
CAIRO: An Egyptian human rights group said on Wednesday it has documented 567 cases of torture in police custody of which 167 resulted in death since 1993....
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NASA set to send teacher into space
CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida): NASA was set to send the first teacher into space aboard shuttle Endeavour on Wednesday, 21 years after the Challenger explosion tragically ended the dream of another pioneering teacher....
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World''s tallest man
KIEV: A giant veterinary surgeon from northwest Ukraine has been declared the tallest living human by Guinness World Records, the book''s publisher said on Wednesday. “Guinness World Records has announced the new tallest man in the world as......
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