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Security Council holds emergency meeting on Gaza
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 22: The UN Security Council met in emergency session on Tuesday to mull a call for ending the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip as the Jewish state... 
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Acrimony marks Hillary-Obama poll debate
MYRTLE BEACH (South Carolina), Jan 22: Bad blood and pent-up anger boiled over as Democratic foes Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama seethed and accused one another of truth twisting in a rancorous 2008 campaign debate....
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Dark, violent themes colour Oscar nominations BEVERLY HILLS, Jan 22: Dark and violent themes coloured the Oscars nominations on Tuesday as crime thriller “No Country for Old Men” and epic oil industry drama “There Will Be Blood”...
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Poor states make headway in reducing child mortality
KARACHI, Jan 22: Though the total number of annual deaths among children below five fell below 10 million, to 9.7 million, in 2007, the world is not yet on track to...
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Kosovo PM seeks independence timetable at EU
PRISTINA (Serbia): Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci meets top European Union and Nato officials this week in the hope of securing a timetable for the province’s independence from Serbia within the next two months....
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Hundreds of tourists stranded as Africa’s power crisis deepens
CAPE TOWN: Southern Africa’s electricity crisis intensified on Tuesday with Zimbabwe and Zambia hit by massive new blackouts while hundreds of tourists were stranded on Cape Town’s famed Table Mountain....
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‘Congo crisis kills 45,000 a month’
KINSHASA: War, disease and malnutrition are killing 45,000 Congolese every month in a conflict-driven humanitarian crisis that has claimed 5.4 million victims in nearly a decade, a survey released on Tuesday said....
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Russia art show opens amid ownership row
LONDON: London’s Royal Academy unveiled a blockbuster exhibition of paintings from Russian galleries on Tuesday, relieved the show will go on despite an ongoing row over ownership of priceless art that threatened to derail it....
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Rebirth of N-power revives waste debate
LONDON: Nuclear power’s credentials as a carbon-free energy source have helped to calm fears about its safety, but scientists have yet to solve the problem of the hundreds of thousands of years of toxic waste it generates....
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DNA test website raises accuracy fears
LONDON: It took scientists more than a decade and about $1bn to unlock the secrets of the human genome. Now consumers are being offered the chance to get a personalised copy...
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