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21 Indian police die in Maoist attack
BHUBANESWAR, July 16: At least 21 Indian commandos were killed on Wednesday in a Maoist rebel attack in the mineral-rich but impoverished east of the country, officials said.... 
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Truck ploughs into traffic; 40 killed
CAIRO, July 16: At least 37 people were killed and 38 injured on Wednesday when a truck failed to stop at a level crossing and pushed waiting traffic into the path of a speeding train in northern Egypt, state media said....
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US envoy to meet Iran’s nuclear negotiator
WASHINGTON, July 16: The United States announced on Wednesday a senior US diplomat would attend international nuclear talks with Iran in the highest-ranking meeting between the two foes in three decades....
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Russian oil tycoon applies for parole
MOSCOW, July 16: Former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky applied on Wednesday for parole in the hope that President Dmitry Medvedev might prove more liberal than his predecessor, his lawyer said....
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EU keeps Iranian group on banned list
BRUSSELS: The European Union said on Wednesday it was keeping a key Iranian opposition group on its list of banned terrorist movements, days before it leads major power talks with Iran over Tehran’s disputed nuclear programme....
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US imposes arms sales freeze on Taiwan
WASHINGTON, July 16: The United States has frozen on arms sales to Taiwan following concerns expressed by China, top US military commander in Asia Admiral Timothy Keating said on Wednesday....
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Volcanoes blamed for mass extinction
PARIS, July 16: Ninety-three million years ago, Earth was a reshuffled jigsaw of continents, a hothouse where the average temperature was nearly twice that of today....
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Surge brigade out of Iraq, says Pentagon
WASHINGTON, July 16: The last US surge brigade is now out of Iraq, but there are still 150,000 US troops in country, well above pre-surge levels, a Pentagon spokesman said on Wednesday....
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Iraq takes control of Diwaniyah province
DIWANIYAH, July 16: Iraq took control of security in the province of Diwaniyah on Wednesday, making it the 10th province to be regained by Baghdad from the US-led forces amid a fall in violence nationwide....
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Tests confirm bones belongs to children of last tsar
MOSCOW, July 16: DNA tests confirm that bones found last year belonged to the last tsar’s murdered children, Alexei and Maria, prosecutors said on Wednesday, as Russia marked the 90th anniversary of their death....
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Scandal of child abuse by priest flares again
SYDNEY, July 16: The scandal over child sex abuse by Catholic priests flared again on Wednesday as Pope Benedict XVI prepared to take centre stage at the world’s biggest Christian festival in Sydney....
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US has best record for cancer survival
PARIS, July 16: The United States holds the best overall record for surviving cancer, despite a large disparity between American blacks and whites, while Algeria has the worst, according to a study of 31 countries....
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US launches rapid response force
WASHINGTON, July 16: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice launched on Wednesday a civilian rapid response force to help stabilise and rebuild parts of the world ravaged by armed conflict....
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Australia unveils online code of conduct
SYDNEY, July 16: Australia on Wednesday unveiled a new code of conduct to regulate online and mobile phone content which will call for classifications similar to those for films, a government spokesman said....
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Teenager hijacks bus in Japan
TOKYO, July 16: A 14-year-old Japanese boy who wanted to cause trouble for his parents was arrested on Wednesday for hijacking a bus at knifepoint on a major highway, police and news reports said....
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Mudslinging, deals overshadow India confidence vote
NEW DELHI: Unheard of political alliances. Accusations of vote-buying to the tune of more than $6 million an MP. Criticisms of shady corporate lobbying with one of the world’s richest men....
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Mudslides: a death trap for poor Bangladeshis
MOTIJHARNA: The threat of landslides has turned shanty towns into death traps for poor Bangladeshis who huddle in squalid temporary homes at the foot of hills that often turn to mud during torrential rains....
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2,000 rice mills closed in BD
DHAKA: Bangladesh has shut almost 2,000 rice mills because they ignored official demands to sell the grain to the army-backed government at below market rates, an official and reports said on Wednesday....
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Lanka govt claims Capturing rebel base
COLOMBO: An LTTE Naval base in the rebel-controlled north was captured on Wednesday as troops overran a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam administered town, military spokesman Brigadier Udaya Nannayakkara said amidst...
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Civilian casualties fuel Afghan conflict
KABUL: The killing of civilians in foreign military airstrikes is shattering Afghans’ support for keeping international troops in their troubled land and driving angry young men into the arms of the Taliban, analysts say....
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Sri Lanka’s elephant orphanage releases babies into the wild
UDAWALAWE: After years of being bottle-fed formula milk, eight orphaned baby elephants appear reluctant to leave their temporary home, but mahouts heave-ho them onto trucks for a journey back to the wild....
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New Delhi orders probe into army assault charge
NEW DELHI: The Indian government on Wednesday ordered an investigation into a female army officer’s claims she was sexually harassed by three superiors, despite strenuous denials from the military....
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‘People’s Saarc’ to push for South Asian union
COLOMBO: With one week to go before the Saarc summit several hundred peace and civil society activists have been converging on the Sri Lankan capital, where for three days from July...
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