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Pro-China Ma wins Taiwan election
TAIPEI, March 22: Taiwan’s main opposition Nationalist Party won the presidential election by a landslide on Saturday, heralding improved ties with giant neighbour China which claims the self-ruled island as its own....
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US attack kills six in Iraq
SAMARRA (Iraq), March 22: An air strike by a US Apache helicopter near the central Iraq city of Samarra on Saturday killed six Iraqis and wounded two, an anti-Qaeda leader and the American military said....
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4 Palestinians wounded in clashes
NABLUS, March 22: At least four people were wounded, one of them seriously, when clashes erupted between Palestinian police and residents of a West Bank village on Saturday, a security official said....
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Tigers sink Sri Lanka navy craft
COLOMBO, March 22: Tamil Tiger rebels struck back against a mounting Sri Lankan military offensive on Saturday by sinking a naval fast attack craft, leaving 10 sailors missing, officials said....
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Dutch protest against Islam critics
AMSTERDAM, March 22: About one thousand people protested in central Amsterdam on Saturday against right-wing lawmaker Geert Wilders and the imminent release of his film expected to be critical of the Quran....
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Spring festival turns violent in Turkey
DIYARBAKIR (Turkey), March 22: More than 100 Kurdish demonstrators and 10 policemen were injured and more than 160 Kurds detained across southeastern Turkey on Saturday when police broke up spring festival celebrations, security sources said....
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Elections create rifts in Bhutan
THIMPHU: Bhutan’s shift from absolute monarchy to the world’s newest democracy is creating unprecedented rifts as people row over which party to vote for in next week’s elections, observers say....
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The 21st-century pagans of England
LONDON: A big yellow moon hangs above a townhouse somewhere in Dorset, in the west of England. Inside, members of the Stag Circle ready themselves for the coming of spring....
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UK, France to take N-power to the world
LONDON: Britain and France are to sign a deal to construct a new generation of nuclear power stations and export the technology around the world in an effort to combat climate change....
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Iraq situation demonstrates limits of US power
LONDON: The problem in Iraq, we’re now told, was a lack of preparation, or the wrong kind of planning, or mistakes in implementation. If only, say the neocons, we had put...
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Cairo priest exorcises Muslim and Christian demons
CAIRO: Every Friday, thousands of Christians and a handful of curious Muslims pour into Cairo’s St Mark’s Coptic church to hear Father Makari Yunan preach, drawn by his power to exorcise demons....
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Young offenders in US face life in prison
ALABASTER: Underage criminals cannot face the death penalty in the United States but dozens of offenders imprisoned for crimes committed when they were young teenagers will still die behind bars....
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