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US death toll in Iraq close to 4,000
WASHINGTON, March 8: The US death toll in Iraq is now approaching 4,000 while thousands more have been wounded, according to the statistics released by the US Defence Department.... 
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Bush vetoes ban on waterboarding
WASHINGTON, March 8: US President George W. Bush vetoed a legislation on Saturday that would have prevented CIA from using waterboarding and other controversial methods to interrogate prisoners....
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Malaysia’s ruling coalition suffers poll upset
KUALA LUMPUR, March 8: Malaysia’s opposition was set on Saturday to hand the ruling coalition its biggest upset ever, claiming wins in at least four states and putting the prime minister’s political future at risk....
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Serb PM resigns after rift on Kosovo
BELGRADE, March 8: Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica resigned on Saturday, announcing the end of a governing coalition too divided over Kosovo to carry on....
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Thatcher leaves hospital after tests
LONDON, March 8: Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher left hospital with a cheery wave for photographers on Saturday after undergoing tests overnight....
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Six die in UK car crash
LONDON, March 8: A head-on collision between two cars in western England killed six people and seriously injured three more, including two children, police said on Saturday....
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Turkish PM looks for a new page in Iraq ties
ANKARA, March 8: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he wants better relations with Iraq, a week after Ankara ended an army offensive against PKK rebels based in the north of the country....
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‘Merchant of Death’ claims innocence
BANGKOK, March 8: Suspected international arms dealer Viktor Bout, caught in a US sting operation in Thailand, has told police he was in Bangkok for a holiday and not to transact any weapons business, a police officer said on Saturday....
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Mystery over ex-model’s disappearance
BRUSSELS, March 8: Former supermodel Waris Dirie, whose apparent disappearance for two days raised fears for her safety, was found on Friday and authorities said she had simply got lost after leaving a disco in the early hours....
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Protest against blasphemous cartoons
HERAT, March 8: Thousands of Afghans demonstrated on Saturday in western Afghanistan, shouting angry slogans against Denmark and the Netherlands for insults against Islam....
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Murder unlikely to affect polls in Spain
MADRID: The assassination of a former politician in an attack blamed on the Basque separatist group ETA will not have a major impact on Sunday’s general election in Spain, which the ruling Socialists remain favourites to win, analysts said....
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Andean tensions to remain despite handshakes
CARACAS: Andean leaders seemed to reach a friendly resolution on Friday to the region’s deepest diplomatic crisis in years, but analysts warn of lingering tensions after a Colombian raid into Ecuador to kill guerillas....
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Medvedev is not soft, Putin warns West
NOVO-OGARYOVO (Russia): President Vladimir Putin on Saturday warned the West it could expect no easing of Russia’s combative foreign policy under his protege, president-elect Dmitry Medvedev....
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Blasts hit hearing ability of US troops
SAN DIEGO: US soldiers and Marines caught in roadside bombings and firefights in Iraq and Afghanistan are coming home in epidemic numbers with permanent hearing loss and ringing in their ears,...
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Obama seeks to regain momentum
WYOMING: Barack Obama, haunted by an aide’s miscues and recent losses to Hillary Rodham Clinton, sought to regain lost momentum in Wyoming’s caucuses on Saturday in an increasingly hostile fight for the Democratic presidential nomination....
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Manila’s women-only police station serves as crisis centre
MANILA: The rows of fixed lines and a mobile phone hotline never stop ringing as trained counsellors alternately take calls from distressed women and children....
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South Africa today: ‘there’s racism, but not in public’
PRETORIA: Fourteen years after Nelson Mandela proclaimed the birth of the rainbow nation after 350 years of white oppression, a comedy has popped up on South African television called Coconuts....
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