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US Marines back-up arrives in Afghanistan
KABUL, March 18: Hundreds of the 3,600 US Marines due in southern Afghanistan to reinforce international efforts against extremists are on the ground and preparing for their mission, their unit said on Tuesday.... 
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Rebels kill 12 migrants in India
GUWAHATI, March 18: Twelve men believed to be migrant workers have been shot dead by rebels over the past two days in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, police said on Tuesday....
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British film director dies
LONDON, March 18: British film director Anthony Minghella, who won an Oscar for “The English Patient”, died in a London hospital on Tuesday after a short illness, his agent said....
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US court holds hearing in gun case
WASHINGTON, March 18: The US Supreme Court on Tuesday, for the first time in nearly 70 years, began considering the right of Americans to keep and use guns....
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‘Black widows’ murdered homeless to net millions
LOS ANGELES, March 18: Two women in their 70s befriended and then murdered homeless men in an effort to collect millions of dollars in life insurance, a Los Angeles court heard on Tuesday....
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Paterson admits to extra-marital affairs
NEW YORK, March 18: In another scandalous bombshell, New York State’s new governor has come clean about his own extra-marital affairs in a interview with Daily News on Tuesday....
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Obama battles back in race row
PHILADELPHIA: White House hopeful Barack Obama, swamped by controversy over incendiary sermons by his former pastor, bid on Tuesday to wrench back his fundamental message of racial and political healing....
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India’s new bid to reach its underfed children
BADARWAS (India): A couple of months ago, Sheela Adivasi’s infant son fell sick and his eyes filled with pus. By the time the infection cleared up, Deepak’s pupils had turned a pearly white....
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Superjumbo lands in London
LONDON: The world’s biggest passenger plane, Airbus’s A380, touched down in London on Tuesday on its first commercial flight to Europe facing questions from green groups over its eco-friendly billing....
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McCartney-Mills divorce settled
LONDON: Heather Mills was a less than candid court witness whose $250 million divorce claim was exorbitant, a judge said in his ruling on her divorce from Paul McCartney....
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