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2 Nato soldiers killed in Afghanistan
KABUL, April 16: Two Nato-led soldiers were killed and two others were wounded in an explosion in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the alliance force said.... 
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Ahmadinejad calls 9/11 ‘suspect event’
TEHRAN, April 16 Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday reaffirmed his doubts about the 9/11 attacks on the United States, describing the strikes as a “suspect event”....
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17 dead as train rams bus in BD
DHAKA, April 16: At least 17 people were killed and 25 injured after a packed train rammed into a bus in a northern Bangladesh town early Wednesday morning, police said....
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Putin arrives in Libya for arms sale talks
TRIPOLI, April 16: Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Libya on Wednesday for a 24-hour visit expected to be dominated by talks over energy contracts and arms sales....
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Russia establishes ties with Georgia’s rebel regions
MOSCOW, April 16: Russia announced on Wednesday it had decided to establish legal links with neighbouring Georgia’s breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, a move Georgia condemned as a breach of international law....
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Pope makes historic White House visit
WASHINGTON, April 16: Pope Benedict XVI, making the first White House papal visit in nearly 30 years, pleaded on Wednesday for a peaceful end to global disputes as thousands of joyful well-wishers sang him “happy birthday.”...
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Design your own US president
PARIS, April 16: Fed up with the flaws of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain? Here’s your chance to set things right....
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Watches worth £700,000 stolen in joint raids
LONDON, April 16: Armed robbers stole designer watches worth 700,000 pounds in simultaneous daytime raids on two upmarket department stores in Manchester on Wednesday....
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Police quiz Anwar’s wife over rally
KUALA LUMPUR, April 16: Malaysian police on Wednesday began investigating the wife of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and other top party leaders over a banned gathering to mark his return to active politics....
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Vitamin D may guard against artery disease: study
WASHINGTON, April 16: Vitamin D may protect against an artery disease in which fatty deposits restrict blood flow to the limbs, researchers said on Wednesday....
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Rice discusses Tibet, Iran with Chinese FM
WASHINGTON, April 16: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday called her Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi to discuss the situation in Tibet and Iran’s nuclear program, US officials said....
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Thief deposits loot with victim
BERLIN, April 16: Three days after stealing a rare collection of coins, a thief in Germany took them to the bank for safe keeping -- and delivered them into the hands of the man he had robbed....
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Re-housing plan leaves slum dwellers unimpressed
MUMBAI: John James gestures from his rooftop terrace over the panoramic view he commands of Asia’s largest slum — a labyrinth of lanes crammed with shacks in India’s financial capital of Mumbai....
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Afghan opposition holds talks with Taliban
KABUL: An opposition group says its leaders, including a former president, have been meeting with the Taliban and other anti-government groups in hopes of negotiating an end to rising violence in Afghanistan....
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India fails to contain bird flu
NEW DELHI: Outbreaks of H5N1 bird flu in India’s eastern state of West Bengal, which shares a long border with Bangladesh, have not yet been contained, a senior health official in India said on Wednesday....
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Delhi blames cartels for food inflation
NEW DELHI: India’s government, battling to wrestle down soaring inflation, vowed stiff action on Wednesday against food hoarders and accused industry of forming cartels that have driven up prices....
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Afghan parliament body drafts Taliban-style moral law
KABUL: An Afghan legislative committee has drafted a bill seeking to introduce Taliban-style Islamic morality codes banning women from wearing make-up in public and forbidding young boys from wearing female fashions....
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Nepal Maoists tell king to bow out ‘gracefully’
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Maoists, on track for victory in landmark elections, on Wednesday called on the country’s embattled king to step down “gracefully” or else face a humiliating eviction from his palace....
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Lanka delays bids for two oil exploration blocks
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka has delayed evaluating bids for two oil exploration blocks in its north-western offshore Mannar basin and is to evaluate one with the most competition first, the island’s petroleum resource minister said on Wednesday....
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