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Governor, police chief killed in Iraq blast
BAGHDAD, Aug 11: The governor and police chief of Iraq’s Diwaniya province were killed when a roadside bomb hit their convoy on Saturday, police said. Diwaniya Governor Khalil Jalil Hamza and... 
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11 dead in Assam shooting
GUWAHATI, Aug 11: Suspected separatists in Assam shot dead 11 people in the latest ethnic attack ahead of India’s Independence Day celebrations, police said on Saturday....
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Israeli website prompts terror alert in New York
NEW YORK, Aug 11: The New York city police on Friday responded to uncorroborated radiological threats reported on an Israeli website by taking extra counterterrorism precautions....
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2 journalists, four officials killed in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU, Aug 11: Two senior Somali radio journalists were killed on Saturday Mogadishu, hours after four officials were shot dead. The motives for the killing of the heads of Horn Afrik...
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Disease stalks millions of flood survivors
DHAKA, Aug 11: Muddy waters receded in Bangladesh and other parts of South Asia on Saturday but disease and hunger stalked millions of people hit by the worst monsoon flooding in decades....
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Teen won’t be sued for Potter translation
PARIS, Aug 11: A high-school student who posted a rogue French-language translation of the latest Harry Potter book on the internet will not be sued, the publisher involved said on Saturday....
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Hamas plans coast guard
GAZA CITY, Aug 11: Hamas’ militia policing Gaza, the Executive Force, on Saturday announced the formation of its new coast guard unit, the Marine Police. Meanwhile, at least 20 demonstrators were...
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Nasa analyses shuttle damage
WASHINGTON, Aug 11: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) on Saturday attempted to gauge the extent of ice damage on the space shuttle Endeavour’s heat shield as two astronauts installed a new beam to the international space station....
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Elvis still ‘The King’ 30 years after death
DETROIT: Thirty years ago, on the eve of his sudden death at 42 at his Graceland mansion, a bloated and drug-addled Elvis Presley was also unintentionally on the threshold of the ultimate career make-over....
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Bush, Sarkozy eager to forget Chirac era’s bitterness
KENNEBUNKPORT (Maine): It was not a summit, not even a working lunch. Just a social meal between two world leaders who happen to be vacationing near each other....
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Gandhi and his son: a study in contrast
LONDON: Mahatma Gandhi once confessed that the greatest regret of his life was that there were two people he had not been able to convince. One was Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah,...
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Children fall prey to S. Africa crime spree
CAPE TOWN: Thomas Siebert shifts uncomfortably on the wooden court bench and flinches occasionally at the testimony of the man who sodomised and then strangled his six-year-old son to death 18 months ago....
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Manmohan dares left to withdraw support
NEW DELHI: India''s prime minister has dared communist allies to withdraw their support for the ruling Congress-led coalition if they are unhappy with a landmark India-US civilian nuclear deal....
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