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Sri Lanka fighting claims 25 lives
COLOMBO, Jan 7: Heavy fighting across Sri Lanka’s northern frontlines left at least 25 rebels and government troops dead, the defence ministry said on Monday, as peace monitors began winding down operations.... 
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Huge blaze damages Iraq’s oil refinery
BAIJI (Iraq), Jan 7: An explosion at a fuel storage tank caused a huge blaze at Iraq’s largest refinery on Monday, inflicting burns on at least 24 workers and killing four others before being extinguished, witnesses said....
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Israel to block database on settlements
JERUSALEM, Jan 7: The Israeli Defense Ministry wants to block publication of a database containing full details about Israeli settlement and outpost construction in the West Bank, on the ground it...
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Volunteer leader among 14 killed in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Jan 7: Two suicide bombers struck in a Sunni Arab district of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 14 people including the leader of a US-backed neighbourhood security patrol, police said....
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Odinga cancels rallies to give mediation a chance
NAIROBI, Jan 7: Up to 1,000 people may have died in more than a week of riots and post-election violence in Kenya, opposition leader Raila Odinga said on Monday....
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Obama gains big lead over Hillary
MANCHESTER (New Hampshire), Jan 7: Democrat Barack Obama rocketed to a 10-point lead over Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire one day before their showdown in the state’s presidential primary, according to a poll released on Monday....
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India, Malaysia seek closer ties
KUALA LUMPUR: India is training Malaysian pilots to fly Russian fighter jets as part of a pact to upgrade defence cooperation, ministers from both sides said on Monday, as the two nations seek closer ties....
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Americans spent $29bn in holiday shopping
WASHINGTON: Americans spent $29 billion in holiday shopping on the Internet in 2007, a rise of 19 per cent, a survey showed on Monday....
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Elephants outsmarting humans
JAKARTA: A herd of wild elephants on Indonesia’s Sumatra has repeatedly outsmarted efforts to stop them stealing crops, wising up to attempts to chase them off with burning torches, a report said on Monday....
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Iran halts gas supplies to Turkey
ANKARA: Iran on Monday halted gas shipments to Turkey as Tehran battles high domestic consumption and a cut in supplies from Turkmenistan during a cold snap, a Turkish industry official said....
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AL’s Lebanon plan needs support of major factions
BEIRUT: An Arab plan to end Lebanon’s constitutional crisis can only succeed if it wins the support of Lebanese factions likely to wrangle over every detail except the choice of army chief Michel Suleiman as next head of state....
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New digital decade to focus on connecting people
LAS VEGAS: The world’s largest consumer electronics trade show will officially open here on Monday, with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates heralding the onset of a new “digital decade”....
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Georgia’s pro-West hopes revived
TBILISI: Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili’s likely re-election will burnish his democratic image in the West, but remaining doubts have dashed quick entry for the ex-Soviet republic into Nato, analysts said on Monday....
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Attacks on tourists leave Mexican beaches deserted
PLAYAS DE ROSARITO (Mexico): Assaults on American tourists have brought hard times to hotels and restaurants that dot Mexican beaches just south of the border from San Diego....
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Kenya crisis has high stakes for ‘war on terror’
LONDON: Kenya’s violent crisis threatens to destabilise one of the United States’ key counter-terrorism partners in Africa and could influence Washington’s decision on where to site its new military command for the continent....
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Racism evident in US cancer treatment, says study
WASHINGTON: US blacks continue to get inferior cancer treatment compared to whites, researchers said on Monday in a study showing that disparities first documented in the early 1990s persist despite efforts to erase them....
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UK accused of glamourising war
LONDON: The British army is targeting children as young as seven with a glamorous portrayal of warfare, a report said on Monday....
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US voters casting ballots before election day
MIAMI: More and more US voters are casting their ballots before their state’s official primary election day, blurring the calendar in a presidential nominating contest that once moved from state to state in prescribed order....
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