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Eight killed in attack on Nato convoy
KANDAHAR, April 10: A suicide car bomber in Afghanistan attacked a Canadian military convoy on Thursday killing eight civilians and wounding 22 people, among them three Canadian soldiers, authorities said.... 
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Nepalese vote on future of monarchy
OKHARPAUWA (Nepal) April 10: Confounding pessimistic predictions of widespread violence, Nepalis turned out enthusiastically on Thursday to vote in a historic and largely trouble-free election they pray will bring lasting peace....
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Bush embraces freeze in Iraq draw-down
WASHINGTON, April 10: US President George W. Bush said in an interview out Thursday that he plans to complete a limited US troop withdrawal from Iraq by July, then freeze the draw-down for a six-week review of the war effort....
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54 Myanmar migrants die in seafood container
BANGKOK, April 10: Fifty-four Myanmar migrants have suffocated to death in a cold storage container while being smuggled to Thailand to escape desperate conditions at home, Thai police said on Thursday....
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Obama says he has many Pakistani friends
NEW YORK, April 10: Barack Obama, the front-runner in Democratic Party for the presidential nomination, has disclosed that he has many Pakistani friends and lived in Pakistan for three weeks in 1981 as a part of a college trip....
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Kaaba key auctioned for $18.1m
LONDON, April 10: A 12th century key to the Holy Kaaba in Makkah, sold for 9.2 million pounds ($18.1m) late on Wednesday, setting a new record for an Islamic work of art at auction....
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Myanmar Warns embassies
YANGON, April 10: Myanmar’s military government on Thursday warned foreign embassies not to support Aung San Suu Kyi’s pro-democracy party, as the nation gears up for a referendum on a constitution opposed by her supporters....
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S. Korean astronaut docks at space station
KOROLYOV, April 10: A Russian capsule carrying South Korea’s first astronaut and a new crew for the International Space Station (ISS) docked successfully on Thursday....
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Brown signals rich nations’ concern over food crisis
LONDON, April 10: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on Thursday for action by the industrialised powers over soaring inflation which has sparked mounting unrest around the globe....
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Israel’s largest civil defence drill ends
JERUSALEM, April 10: Israel wound up its largest ever civil defence exercise on Thursday with a simulation of a chemical weapons attack on a hospital and claimed the five days of drills worked well....
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Bush’s legacy to be defined by Iraq invasion
WASHINGTON: If he has doubts, he does not voice them. If he has regrets about his decision, he does not show them. More than five years into an Iraq war that...
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Arroyo treads risky path with rice campaign
MANILA: Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s all-out campaign to ensure rice supplies amid skyrocketing prices risks sowing panic among Filipinos and raising the political and financial heat on her government....
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Italian women fight to break political barriers
ROME: Silvio Berlusconi wins applause from a crowd of flag-waving Italian women at an election rally when he urges them to cook for his party’s candidates....
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Painkillers help build muscle in old exercisers
NEW YORK: In a study of healthy older adults lifting weights regularly, for three months, taking recommended daily doses of ibuprofen (like that in Advil) or acetaminophen (like that in Tylenol)...
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Zimbabwe in limbo as Mugabe fights back
HARARE: For a few days, many Zimbabweans dared to believe President Robert Mugabe’s rule was drawing to a close; now they fear he will cling to power, reviving ruthless tactics used to cow his opponents a decade ago....
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