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Communal clashes erupt in Orissa: Christians’ houses set on fire
BHUBANESWAR, Sept 30: One woman was killed and more than a dozen people injured, some critically, after religious clashes in eastern India between Hindus and Christians, officials said.... 
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60 rebels, 6 soldiers die in Sri Lankan battles
COLOMBO, Sept 30: Fighting in the embattled north left 60 rebels and six soldiers dead on Tuesday, military officials said....
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Gurkhas win legal battle to settle in UK
LONDON, Sept 30: Former Gurkha soldiers from Nepal won the right to settle in Britain on Tuesday, in what their lawyers hailed as an “historic victory” for the veteran fighters....
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Spacecraft sees snowfall on Mars
WASHINGTON, Sept 30: In an unprecedented discovery, Nasa’s Phoenix Mars Lander has found snow falling from clouds on Mars, scientists said on Tuesday....
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Desert hostages return from Egypt
BERLIN, Sept 30: Europeans and other captives returned home on Tuesday from Egypt where they had been held hostage by bandits for 10 days, amid conflicting accounts of their liberation....
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Seven killed, 82 hurt in Maharashtra: Police term blast terrorist attack
MUMBAI, Sept 30: A bomb blast that killed seven people and wounded 82 in western India on Monday night is being treated as a terrorist attack, police said, fearing further strikes....
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UK police probe eBay sale of M16 camera
LONDON, Sept 30: Britain’s MI6 intelligence service is investigating how a camera holding sensitive information about Al Qaeda suspects came to be lost by one of its agents, police said on Tuesday....
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Pollution slowly killing world’s coral reefs
CANCUN, Mexico: Dainty blue fish dart around coral shaped like moose antlers near the Mexican resort of Cancun, but sickly brown spots are appearing where pollution threatens one of the world’s largest reefs....
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Chechnya: it’s over, and Putin won
GROZNY: No corkscrew. That’s the first surprise about Chechnya. Unlike in Baghdad today or Kabul during the Soviet occupation, planes don’t arrive high above the airfield and then dip one wing...
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Arab fans gripped by saga of WWII spy
BEIRUT: Sixty years after her death in a mysterious car crash, a television series about Arab singing diva and spy Asmahan is captivating audiences with details of her short but racy life....
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