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Rich, poor nations clash at climate talks
MAKUHARI (Japan), March 16: Disagreements between rich and developing countries came into the open on Sunday as the world’s top 20 greenhouse gas emitters worked to lay the groundwork for a new deal on climate change.... 
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4 killed as crane crushes New York building
NEW YORK, March 16: A towering construction crane has crashed onto a New York residential building, killing at least four people and injuring 10 others, officials said....
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Three killed in Indian religious festival
GUWAHATI, March 16: Three people were killed and 50 were injured in a grenade attack in India’s restive northeast on Sunday, police said....
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Jiabao re-elected as China’s premier
BEIJING: China’s parliament on Sunday re-elected Wen Jiabao as the nation’s premier for five more years, state-run Xinhua news agency said....
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Right-wing Israelis storm Arab area in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM: Dozens of right-wing Jewish activists on Sunday stormed the Arab neighbourhood in occupied Jerusalem of a Palestinian gunman who allegedly killed eight Israelis at a Jewish seminary earlier this month, police and witnesses said....
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Sarkozy suffers setback in local polls
PARIS, March 16: President Nicolas Sarkozy’s right-wing party suffered losses in French local elections on Sunday that were the first major test of his popularity since he took office, projections from polling firms showed....
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Thaw of world’s glaciers quickens
OSLO, March 16: A thaw of the world’s glaciers has accelerated to a new record with some of the biggest losses within Europe, in a worrying sign of climate change, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said on Sunday....
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81,000 road deaths in China
BEIJING, March 16: More than 81,000 people died on China’s roads last year, an average of around 223 a day, state-run press said Sunday....
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Human rights in Iraq disastrous, says Amnesty
LONDON, March 16: Amnesty International on said the rights situation in Iraq five years after the US-led invasion was “disastrous” and that the country had turned into one of the world''s most dangerous zones....
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Indonesians rally against soaring food prices
JAKARTA, March 16: About 500 Indonesian Muslims took to the streets of the capital to demand the government bring down food prices after media reports of cases of starvation....
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Bandaranaike political dynasty ends
COLOMBO, March 16: Ending the political dynasty of the Bandaranaike family in Sri Lanka, Anura Bandaranaike, the younger brother of former President Chandrika Kumaratunga passed away at his residence on Sunday afternoon after a prolonged liver illness....
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UN believes BD will hold election this year
BOYRA (Bangladesh): Bangladesh is set to have a fair election this year with a new voters’ list replacing one critics said had millions of fake names, an official of the UN agency funding voter registration said on Sunday....
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Paris book fair evacuated after bomb threat
PARIS: A bomb threat on Sunday targeted the Paris book fair, forcing organisers to evacuate visitors to the literary event, which this year is honouring Israeli writers despite a Muslim boycott, police said....
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New bird species discovered
JAKARTA: A bird first reported spotted on the remote Indonesian island of Togian in 1996 has been declared a newly discovered species, a top taxonomist in the Southeast Asian country said on Saturday....
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‘Name and shame’ war on graft, drugs
BRUSSELS: Afghanistan is ready to launch a “name and shame” campaign against high-level corruption and drug trafficking if it gets international backing, a senior minister and ally of President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday....
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Merkel visits Israel
TEL AVIV: Angela Merkel began on Sunday a highly symbolic visit to Israel, where she will become the first German chancellor to address its parliament more than 60 years after the Nazi Holocaust that killed 6 million Jews....
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US Supreme Court in historic hearing on gun laws
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Tuesday takes up for the first time in 70 years the thorny issue of the right to bear arms, an emotional subject that has long divided the American public....
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Iran bans magazines for showing ‘corrupt’ stars
TEHRAN: Iran has banned nine lifestyle and cinema magazines for publishing pictures of “corrupt” foreign film stars and details about their “decadent” private lives, the student ISNA news agency said on Sunday....
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Brown struggles to turn page on Iraq
LONDON: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown wants to turn a page on Iraq by pulling out troops controversially sent in by his predecessor Tony Blair, but his hands are tied politically, experts say....
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Chicago secret garden cools a concrete jungle
CHICAGO: Nestled atop Chicago’s neoclassical city hall lies a secret garden hidden to all but those peering out of the windows of neighbouring office towers....
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Suicide vest weapon of choice for Al Qaeda: US
BAGHDAD: The explosive vest has become the weapon of choice for Al-Qaeda in Iraq, with most jihadis nowadays wearing the lethal garment and the number of suicide attacks rising, the US military said on Sunday....
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