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Myanmar cyclone toll surges to 10,000
YANGON, May 5: Myanmar’s military junta believes at least 10,000 people died in a cyclone that ripped through the Irrawaddy delta, triggering a massive international aid response for the pariah state in southeast Asia.... 
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Accidental blasts kill 7 in Kabul
KABUL, May 5: Four children and three policemen were killed in accidental explosions in the Afghan capital on Monday while elsewhere militants’ gunfire struck a helicopter forcing it to land, officials and a witness said....
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Seven inmates die in Saudi prison fire
RIYADH, May 5: At least seven inmates died and many others received injuries in a fire that engulfed a prison in eastern Saudi Arabia, a senior security official said on Monday....
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Blast kills five policemen in Chechnya
GROZNY, May 5: A bomb attack on a security checkpoint in Russia’s restive Chechnya province killed five policemen just days ahead of Dmitry Medvedev’s inauguration as new president, police said on Monday....
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Bush remarks spark anger in India: Food crisis
NEW DELHI, May 5: A remark by President George Bush saying India was partly responsible for rising global food prices has sparked a nationalistic storm across the political spectrum, with the defence minister calling it a “cruel joke”....
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Olmert and Abbas meet to speed up peace talks
JERUSALEM, May 5: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met on Monday to try to accelerate peace talks that have shown little sign of progress ahead of a visit by US President George W....
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UN food agency should be scrapped: Senegal
DAKAR, May 5: Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has called for the main UN food agency to be scrapped, saying it is a “waste of money” and “largely to blame” for the global food price rise crisis....
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Russia rehearses inauguration show of strength
MOSCOW, May 5: Fighter jets circled over Red Square on Monday as Russia prepared a huge patriotic display around this week’s presidential inauguration, amid rising tension with pro-western neighbour Georgia....
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Kuwait to deport foreigners who instigate strikes
KUWAIT CITY, May 5: Kuwait has warned that it would deport expatriates who instigate gatherings and strikes and would arrest and prosecute the participants....
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Japan looks to immigrants as population shrinks
TOKYO, May 5: Japan’s ruling party is considering plans to encourage foreign workers to stay in the country long-term, a daily reported on Monday after the birth rate fell for the 27th successive year....
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Not just election, it’s a thriller
WASHINGTON: As a novelist, I am jealous of the present national moment. I’d love to have invented it what author of thrillers wouldn’t? The fate of the nation is at stake....
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Tough fight looms for India’s big-hitters
NEW DELHI: What looks set to be one of India’s longest and hardest fought election seasons ever threatens to further erode the powerbase of its two political heavyweights and deepen a crisis in policy making....
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UK: the 29 fakes behind a rewriting of history
LONDON: They were the secret intelligence files that turned second world war history on its head with “revelations” of British collaboration with the Nazis....
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The hugely rich pull the strings
WASHINGTON: We didn’t elect them. We can’t throw them out. And they’re getting more powerful every day. Call them the superclass....
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