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Lebanon on high alert after deadly riots
BEIRUT, Jan 28: The Lebanese army was on high alert here on Monday as funerals were held for some of the six people killed in weekend riots that have stoked fears of civil unrest.... 
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Scores killed in Kenya ethnic revenge attacks
NAIVASHA (Kenya), Jan 28: Police battled rioters as ethnic revenge attacks set off by last month’s elections spiralled across western Kenya, killing scores and provoking thousands to flee their homes....
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Kennedy’s support for Obama rocks Democrats
WASHINGTON, Jan 28: Two US political dynasties are going to head-to-head in the tight 2008 White House race as some of the iconic Kennedy clan snub the Clintons to back the new-boy-on-the-block, Barack Obama....
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Five US soldiers killed in Iraq
MOSUL, Jan 28: Five US soldiers were killed in flashpoint Mosul city on Monday when their patrol was struck by a roadside bomb and then attacked by gunmen holed up in a nearby mosque, the American military said....
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Hezbollah demands inquiry into killings
Hezbollah, Lebanon’s most powerful faction, on Monday demanded to know who was behind shooting that killed eight opposition supporters in some of Beirut’s worst street violence since the 1975-90 civil war....
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Five found guilty of UK’s biggest heist
LONDON, Jan 28: Five men were found guilty on Monday of kidnap and robbery in Britain’s biggest ever heist, a daring, £53 million raid on a cash depot in Kent....
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Academic convicted of insulting Ataturk
ISTANBUL, Jan 28: A Turkish court imposed a suspended 15 month jail sentence on Monday on a professor for insulting modern Turkey’s founder, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, in a case likely to draw European Union criticism....
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Supplies run out in Egypt-Gaza border town
RAFAH, Jan 28: Khaled Salah’s shop in the border town of Rafah is almost empty, to the immense disappointment of Palestinians who fled a blockaded Gaza to stock up on vital supplies across the border in Egypt.Only...
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Russia halves number of foreign monitors
MOSCOW, Jan 28: Russia said on Monday it had halved the number of foreign observers invited to presidential elections in March and suggested some monitors in the past had been fundamentally hostile to Moscow....
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India steps up culling of birds
KOLKATA, Jan 28: India’s West Bengal state said on Monday that it was slaughtering chickens on a “war footing” as bird flu spread to new areas of the highly-populated province of 80 million people....
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Shahrukh Khan honoured
MUMBAI, Jan 28: France has awarded Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan its highest cultural decoration at a ceremony in India’s entertainment hub of Mumbai....
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A tenth of Britons are ‘rich’: survey
LONDON, Jan 28: A tenth of the British population are classed as ‘rich” but do not feel it....
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Colombian rebel gets 60-year jail term
WASHINGTON, Jan 28: A top leader of Marxist rebels in Colombia was sentenced on Monday to 60 years in prison for his role in the kidnappings of three US citizens....
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Economy, Iraq bring in more voters to US race
LOS ANGELES: The US electorate appears to be more engaged in presidential politics than it has been in many years, stirred by the drama of a wide-open campaign, anger at the Iraq war and anxiety over the economy, political observers say....
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‘Toy of the century’ survives challenge from computer games
COPENHAGEN: Lego’s colourful bricks that have inspired kids’ imaginations worldwide celebrated their 50th anniversary on Monday after resisting fierce competition from high-tech computer games that nearly brought the company down a few years ago....
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Suharto’s children face an uncertain future
JAKARTA: The death of Suharto could see his children’s ability to evade justice threatened by a new vigour among Indonesia’s elite to pursue corruption charges against them, analysts say....
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Hint of mood change dominates Iran’s parliament vote
TEHRAN: There is a mood of change ahead of elections to an Iranian parliament now dominated by backers of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even if no one expects the pro-reform opposition to make a sweeping comeback....
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Antarctica on alert for alien invaders
TROLL STATION (Antarctica): Aliens are landing in Antarctica....
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Free music available legally, but with ads
CANNES: Growing numbers of legal and free music Internet services are appearing offering vast numbers of songs, provided music lovers can stomach the accompanying advertisements....
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‘Shield’ for astronauts
LONDON: “Shields up!” barks Captain James T Kirk as the Starship Enterprise braces itself for another blast from the Klingon cruiser, referring to that essential accessory without which the crew could never have ventured beyond the final frontier....
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