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Suicide bomber kills 20 at Iraq funeral
BAQUBA, April 4: A bomber detonated his explosive-filled vest in a crowd of people at a funeral in restive Iraqi province of Diyala on Friday, killing at least 20 people, local police officers said.... 
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20 killed as bus plunges into ditch in India
KOLKATA, April 4: At least 20 commuters died on Friday when a crowded bus skidded off a road and plunged into a ditch in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, police said....
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Three killed in Moscow explosion
MOSCOW, April 4: An explosion ripped through a Moscow apartment tower on Friday, blowing out exterior walls, sparking a fire and killing at least three people, officials said....
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Putin tells Nato ‘let’s be friends’
BUCHAREST, April 4: Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Nato to work towards compromise on disputes over enlargement, arms control and missile defence at a cordial farewell summit on Friday....
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Prince Philip hospitalized
LONDON: Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, Prince Philip, was hospitalised with a chest infection and is undergoing a series of tests, Buckingham Palace said on Friday....
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Pirates seize control of French cruise ship
PARIS: Pirates seized control of a French cruise ship carrying 30 crew members on Friday in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia’s coast, the French Foreign Ministry and the ship’s owner said....
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Dr King remembered
MEMPHIS (Tennessee), April 4: Thousands gathered here on Friday on the anniversary of the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, reflecting that 40 years on his dream remains unfulfilled....
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Time running out for N-deal, India warned
WASHINGTON, April 4: The US State Department has warned that the “time is running out” to finalise a nuclear deal with India, which is at risk of being left to an...
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Ahmadinejad says uranium enrichment not negotiable
TOKYO, April 4: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview published on Friday that he would reject any new incentives offered by world powers in return for suspending uranium enrichment....
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Pregnant ‘man’ defends right to have child
NEW YORK: Thomas Beatie, a US man who was born female, underwent gender realignment surgery and is now pregnant, has sparked renewed debate in the United States about the rights of transgender individuals....
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Marie-Antoinette watch unveiled in Basel
BASEL (Switzerland): Time waits for no man, or woman — even a queen, as Marie-Antoinette found to her cost amid the tumult of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century....
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Nigerian court begins rebel leaders’ trial
ABUJA: A Nigerian federal high court in the central city of Jos on Thursday started the in camera trial of two presumed leaders of a Niger Delta armed group facing treason charges, a senior court official said....
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US missile defence almost a done deal
BUCHAREST: No matter how much Russia hates it, the US now has a clear track to build its long-range missile defence system in Europe....
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Thai women take up arms to battle insurgency
PATTANI: A golden Buddha amulet is Nattapat Khongkhoun’s spiritual armour against separatist militants who killed her father and continue to terrorise residents in this southern Thai province....
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Teenagers detained for chocolate bar killing
LONDON: Two teenagers were detained on Friday after admitting they killed a man in a row over a discarded chocolate bar....
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Border complicates Afghan war
SPERA DISTRICT (Afghanistan): As a cold darkness enveloped the tiny US military camp just inside Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan, word spread that Taliban fighters were on the move nearby, planning an attack....
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