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Harsh winter kills more than 750 in Afghanistan
KABUL, Feb 9: More than 750 people have died as a result of severe cold and heavy snowfalls this winter across Afghanistan, a government official said on Saturday.... 
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Fire kills 11 at Austrian retirement home
VIENNA, Feb 9: A fire swept through a retirement home in the western Austrian town of Egg on Friday, killing 11 residents, officials said....
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20 arrested in India over politician’s killing
MUMBAI, Feb 9: Nineteen people have been arrested in connection with the lynching of a local politician at a campaign event in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, a police official said on Saturday....
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Sept 11 suspects’ case in final phase: paper
NEW YORK, Feb 9: Six years after the 9/11 attacks, the United States military prosecutors are in the final phases of preparing the first sweeping case against suspected conspirators , the...
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Snow ruins 90pc forests in China
BEIJING, Feb 9: About one-tenth of China’s forests were damaged by recent winter storms, the worst in at least five decades, and in the hardest-hit regions nearly 90 per cent of forests were ruined, Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday....
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Japan accuses Russia of violating its airspace
TOKYO, Feb 9: Japan scrambled two dozen military aircraft and lodged a protest, accusing a Russian strategic bomber of entering its airspace over the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo on Saturday....
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Myanmar junta to hold polls in 2010: Referendum in May this year
YANGON, Feb 9: Myanmar’s military government will hold a referendum on a new constitution in May this year followed by multi-party elections in 2010, the first in two decades, state television announced on Saturday....
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Hamas seized aid convoy, says Jordan
AMMAN, Feb 9: Jordan said on Saturday accused Hamas of confiscating a convoy of humanitarian aid sent to people living under an Israeli blockade in the Gaza Strip....
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Kidney racket suspect handed over to India
KATHMANDU, Feb 9: Nepal handed over to India on Saturday an Indian man suspected of running an illegal kidney transplant racket there, an Indian embassy official said....
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3 Nepal ethnic groups threaten blockade
KATHMANDU, Feb 9: Three ethnic protest groups from Nepal’s southern plains united on Saturday to threaten an indefinite blockade of the capital Kathmandu as they press for regional autonomy....
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Indian leprosy activist dies
NEW DELHI, Feb 9: Indian social activist Murlidhar Devidas Amte, who created a rural commune that provided a home and jobs to the country’s widely shunned leprosy sufferers, died on Saturday aged 93, family said....
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Anglican leader slams critics of Sharia remarks
LONDON, Feb 9: The leader of the world’s Anglicans, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, has hit back at his critics amid a furore about his comments on Islamic law that have led to calls for him to quit....
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Wild elephants kill man
COX’S BAZAR (Bangladesh), Feb 9: Wild elephants straying into a Bangladesh village killed a man, injured another and trampled several homes on Saturday, forest officials said....
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Palestinian forces will need billions in aid: US
JERUSALEM: Building Palestinian security forces for a future state will require a multibillion-dollar infusion of donor funds dwarfing existing commitments, according to US estimates shared with European and Israeli officials....
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France accuses US of schizophrenia on Europe’s security
MUNICH: French Defence Minister Herve Morin accused the United States of a “schizophrenic” approach to European security today and also criticised other European allies for an “infantile” dependence on American power....
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Study links Botox to children’s deaths
WASHINGTON: The popular anti-wrinkle drug Botox and a competitor have been linked to dangerous botulism symptoms in some users, cases so bad that a few children given the drugs for muscle spasms have died, the US government warned on Friday....
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Lack of language skills handicaps Americans
WASHINGTON: The book was entitled “The Tongue-Tied American: Confronting the Foreign Language Crisis” and its author found that a deficit of language skills threatened US business and national security....
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Japanese art, dancing robots take over Kennedy Center
WASHINGTON: Robots take the stage at the Kennedy Center for the next 10 days — along with about 450 human artists — as the performing arts center is transformed into a festival of Japanese music, theater, dance, exhibits and technical wizardry....
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Talk of ‘time to turn and flee Afghanistan’ is wrong
KABUL: Our enemies have watches, but we have time,” boast the Taliban. Waiting for Afghanistan’s invaders to give up under relentless harassment worked in the past....
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