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Oil prices spark protests in Asia, Europe
MADRID, June 10: Protesters marched in India, Hong Kong and Nepal over soaring oil prices on Tuesday and Spaniards stockpiled fuel and food, fearing shortages because of a truck drivers’ strike that has halted deliveries.... 
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US, EU warn Iran of more sanctions
BRDO (Slovenia), June 10: The United States and the European Union sought on Tuesday to turn up the pressure on Iran to drop its nuclear enrichment programme, saying they were ready to go beyond a latest round of UN sanctions....
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100 killed in Sudan plane crash
KHARTOUM, June 10: A Sudanese airliner burst into flames after careering off the runway on landing at Khartoum airport on Tuesday, killing 100 passengers, Al Jazeera television reported....
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Russia, Ukraine clash over 350-year-old battle
MOSCOW: A 350-year-old cavalry battle has become the latest irritant between Russia and its neighbour Ukraine after Russia''s foreign ministry on Tuesday accused Kiev of using the clash to foment anti-Russian feeling....
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US military scrambles to find trainers for Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, June 10: The top US military officer says the Pentagon is scrambling to find trainers to send to Afghanistan, which will be difficult until commanders reduce US troop numbers in Iraq....
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Thousands of tourists stranded in Darjeeling
KOLKATA, June 10: Tens of thousands of tourists were stranded in northeast India on Tuesday amid a strike by a group demanding a separate state in the hills around the tea-producing area of Darjeeling, police said....
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World’s first church unearthed
AMMAN: Archaeologists in Jordan have unearthed what they claim is the world''s first church, dating back almost 2,000 years, The Jordan Times reported on Tuesday....
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Dolly sheep cloners win ‘Asian Nobel prize’
HONG KONG: The scientists behind Dolly, the world''s first cloned sheep, were on Tuesday announced as the winners of the Shaw Prize, the million-dollar award known as the Nobel Prize of the east....
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Head of Saddam’s tribe killed in bomb attack
TIKRIT: The head of the tribe of Saddam Hussein was killed in a bomb attack on Tuesday near the home village of the executed Iraqi dictator, police said....
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Russia drops probe against US media group
MOSCOW: Russian prosecutors have dropped a high-profile criminal case against the local head of US media training organisation Internews, a lawyer for the group said on Tuesday....
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4 killed for ‘witchcraft’
GUWAHATI: A mob lynched four members of a family in India’s northeast in the belief that the victims had practised witchcraft, police said on Tuesday....
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Report dispels myth of ‘model’ Asian student
LOS ANGELES: The success of some Asian-American and Pacific Islander college students has given rise to a myth of the “model minority” that obscures important differences within a diverse population whose...
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Jordan fears new pressure to merge with West Bank
AMMAN: Jordanian officials fear the kingdom may pay the price for lack of progress in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks as proposals resurface for a controversial merger with a truncated West Bank....
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Dutch art forger proudly exhibits his works
ZEIST (Netherlands): Dutch art forger Geert Jan Jansen’s fortunes have turned. Once rebuked for his fakes of Picasso, Matisse and other masters, this copy-cat virtuosity is now making him an honest living....
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Red tape, bribes dog small business in Russia
MOSCOW: Every morning staff at fashion jewellery chain Diva line up to bring their Australian boss about 500 documents to sign, as he swims against a tide of bureaucracy and corruption in modern Russia....
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Tomatoes may fight prostate tumours
NEW YORK: A compound found in dehydrated tomatoes may help quash prostate cancer tumours, new animal research suggests.Studies have come to conflicting conclusions as to whether tomatoes or lycopene, an antioxidant found in tomatoes, might offer prostate cancer protection....
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