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More Indian churches damaged as riots spread
BHUBANESWAR, Sept 16: Hindu mobs clashed with police and attacked homes of Christians in eastern India, police said on Tuesday, the latest outbreak of communal violence that has killed 22 people in the region.... 
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North Korea tests missile engine: report
SEOUL, Sept 16: North Korea has conducted an engine ignition test for a long-range missile at a new launch base under construction near its west coast, a South Korean intelligence source was quoted as saying on Tuesday....
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Bail granted to Hasina
DHAKA, Sept 16: A Bangladesh court granted bail to former prime minister Sheikh Hasina in an extortion case on Tuesday, setting the stage for her return from the United States next month ahead of elections later in the year....
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Rajapakse rules out ceasefire with LTTE: UN staff evacuated as troops move closer to rebel bastion
COLOMBO, Sept 16: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has ruled out a ceasefire with the LTTE and declared that the only condition for the suspension of the military operations is an unconditional surrender....
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Ukraine’s pro-Western ruling coalition collapses
KIEV, Sept 16: The governing coalition in Ukraine collapsed on Tuesday in a crisis that threatens to knock the ex-Soviet country of 47 million people off its pro-Western course....
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Tehran gives charge of Gulf waters to Revolutionary Guards
TEHRAN, Sept 16: Iran announced on Tuesday that it has put the elite Revolutionary Guards in charge of defending the country’s territorial Persian Gulf waters in what appeared to be a hardening of its stance in the vital oil route....
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‘National dialogue’ begins in Lebanon
BEIRUT, Sept 16: The president of Lebanon called on rival leaders to unite on Tuesday at the first session of talks that will focus on one of their deepest areas of...
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Man strangles nagging wife
MELBOURNE, Sept 16: An Australian husband strangled his nagging wife after she upset his beloved pet dog as he tried to rock it to sleep, a prosecutor told a local court....
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Migraine sufferers prone to leg clots: study
CHICAGO, Sept 16: People who get migraines may also be at higher risk for blood clots in their legs, researchers said on Monday....
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UN slams Afghan civilians’ deaths
GENEVA, Sept 16: The top United Nations human rights official on Tuesday slammed growing civilian casualties in Afghanistan as new figures showed August was the deadliest month since the fall of the Taliban....
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Study links chemical used in plastics to heart woes
ROCKVILLE, Sept 16: A major study links a chemical used in many plastic products including baby bottles to human problems such as heart disease and diabetes, while US regulators on Tuesday said they still believe it is safe....
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Odierno takes charge of US forces in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Sept 16: US General Raymond Odierno took charge of US-led forces in Iraq on Tuesday from David Petraeus, the general credited with pulling the violence-wracked country back from all-out civil war....
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Post-Georgia war tensions in Crimea
From his giant monument overlooking Sevastopol, Vladimir Lenin gazes dreamily out towards the Black Sea....
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NASA’s star is fading
WASHINGTON: NASA Administrator Michael Griffin has clashed repeatedly with the White House in recent months – a rift that escalated when budget officials heavily edited a statement he was submitting to...
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Philippine Muslims still searching for homeland
MANILA: It is mid-morning and the muezzin’s call at Manila’s Blue Mosque in suburban Maharlika echoes across the run-down tenement blocks as men slowly walk towards its sky blue onion-shaped dome....
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