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Iraq army base blast claims 28 lives
BAQUBA (Iraq), July 15: At least 28 people were killed on Tuesday when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowd of recruits on an Iraqi army base in an area known to be a stronghold of Al Qaeda fighters.... 
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Saudis offer Russia billions to break with Iran: report
MOSCOW, July 15: Saudi Arabia has offered to buy Russian arms worth $2.4 billion if Moscow stops supporting Iran, a Russian newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing diplomatic sources....
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New Yorker cartoon termed offensive
NEW YORK, July 15: A cover cartoon in the latest issue of the New Yorker magazine depicting Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as flag-burning and fist-bumping radicals has come in for a bi-partisan condemnation (except for some extreme right groups)....
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Google-Yahoo tie-up draws fire on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON, July 15: A proposed online advertising deal between Google and Yahoo drew fire from Microsoft and others at a Senate hearing on Tuesday even as both companies defended the alliance as positive for consumers and businesses....
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Whodunnit strikes terror among India’s newly rich
NEW DELHI: A young girl’s throat is slit in her bedroom. A servant is also found dead nearby. The dentist father is arrested, injected with a ‘truth serum’, held for 50 days and then released....
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Treadmill workstation brings exercise to office, slowly
WASHINGTON: Can sedentary office workers multi-task their way to a healthier lifestyle?...
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Hamas-run orphanages are new Israeli target
JERUSALEM: Shopping malls. Schools. Medical centres. Charities, orphanages. Soup kitchens. These are the latest targets in the campaign the Israeli military is waging against Hamas in the West Bank....
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Visual impairment indirectly linked to suicide
NEW YORK: Visual impairment alone does not significantly increase the risk of suicide, but it does seem to do so when it is associated with poor health, according to a report in the Archives of Ophthalmology....
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