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Obama beats Hillary in Mississippi
WASHINGTON, March 12: Democrat Barack Obama easily beat rival Hillary Clinton in Mississippi on Tuesday, giving him new momentum in their heated presidential fight as they head to the next showdown in Pennsylvania in six weeks.... 
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Israel kills four Palestinians: Hamas sets truce terms
BETHLEHEM, March 12: Israeli forces killed four Palestinian militants in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, hours after the Gaza Strip’s Hamas rulers demanded a halt to all Israeli “aggression” as a condition for a ceasefire....
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Marxists vow to end Indian involvement in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: Twenty years after the controversial Indo-Lanka peace accord, Sri Lanka’s neighbour India continues to be a powerful influence in the country’s attempts to offer a political solution to the Tamil...
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Russia approves extradition of Israeli to Colombia
MOSCOW, March 12: A Russian court has approved the extradition to Colombia of an Israeli mercenary wanted by Colombian authorities for allegedly training guerillas, a spokeswoman for the court said on Wednesday....
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Small aircraft enters US Capitol airspace
WASHINGTON, March 12: A small aircraft entered restricted airspace near the US Capitol on Wednesday, but it turned away and was not considered a threat, the Homeland Security Department said....
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NY governor quits over sex scandal
NEW YORK, March 12: New York Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned from office on Wednesday, succumbing to threats of impeachment and mounting media pressure over his involvement in a career-ending prostitution scandal....
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World War One veteran dies at 110
PARIS, March 12: France’s last surviving veteran of World War One, an Italian immigrant who fought in the trenches with the Foreign Legion, has died at the age of 110, the president’s office said on Wednesday....
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Tight US immigration forces outsourcing: Bill Gates
WASHINGTON, March 12: US high-tech firms are forced to outsource jobs overseas because of immigration restrictions, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said on Wednesday as Congress debated a visa programme for skilled workers....
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Unlawful arrests in Myanmar on the rise: UN
GENEVA, March 12: Some 1,850 political prisoners are behind bars as of January in Myanmar, as the government “accelerated” rather than stopped unlawful arrests, a United Nations report said on Wednesday....
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US envoy leaves Belarus
MINSK, March 12: The US ambassador to Belarus left Minsk on Wednesday, the embassy said, amid a diplomatic row between Belarus and the United States over US economic sanctions on the ex-Soviet state....
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Nato warns Russia against anti-alliance rhetoric
MOSCOW, March 12: Nato urged Russia on Wednesday to tone down its “fiery rhetoric” after repeated Moscow attacks on the growing influence of the military alliance and US plans to base parts of a missile shield in Europe....
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Internet TV service launched in US
SAN FRANCISCO, March 12: News Corporation and NBC Universal on Wednesday began offering free online television to the US public through Internet joint venture Hulu.com....
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London Europe’s most expensive, dirty city: survey
LONDON, March 12: London is the dirtiest and most expensive city in Europe, while Brussels is the most boring, according to a British survey published on Wednesday....
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Arms cache enough to raise ‘army’ seized
PARIS, March 12: A stash of weapons seized from a fugitive militant leader in Nigeria’s Niger Delta would have been enough to raise an army, shocked senators said....
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Short people prone to jealousy, say scientists
PARIS, March 12: Short people should pray for a return to the seventies fashion of stack heels, for the power of jealousy depends on how tall you are, the British weekly New Scientist says....
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Airport workers on strike in India
NEW DELHI: Some 15,000 airport workers across India went on strike on Wednesday, threatening to ground hundreds of commercial flights and leave tens of thousands of passengers stranded....
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Indian govt plans fund for indebted farmers
NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday sought approval to spend an extra $10.7 billion in the year to end-March, including $2.5 billion for a fund it will use to partly pay for a new debt write-off plan for small farmers....
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Mother of dead girl fears police charge
NEW DELHI/PANAJI: The mother of a British teenager who was raped and murdered last month in Goa said on Wednesday that she was worried at the possibility of police charging her with neglect for leaving her daughter alone....
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Afghan war trend worse than Iraq: US trainer
STOCKHOLM: The tide of the war in Afghanistan is running against the United States and its allies, in contrast to an improving trend in Iraq, a US military official and counter-insurgency expert said on Wednesday....
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BD retreats on women’s rights after clerics protest
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s military-supported government has backed down from a policy to ensure equal property rights to women amid angry protests by Muslim clerics that the move would override Islamic law.The...
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Violence hits tourism in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: Escalating violence in Sri Lanka’s 25-year civil war hit tourism in February, largely because Europeans stayed away, officials said on Wednesday....
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Bush presses allies for more help in Afghanistan
NASHVILLE: President Bush said on Tuesday that Nato allies must “make the hard decisions” necessary to secure peace in Afghanistan and promised to press for increased contributions of troops and money next month to battle a resurgent Taliban and Al Qaeda....
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