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13 Moros killed in air, ground attack
MANILA, Oct 27: Philippine soldiers killed 13 Muslim guerrillas and wounded four on Monday in an attack in a southern marshland with artillery fire and air strikes, an army spokesman said.Major... 
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Woman wins slavery case against Niger
NIAMEY, Oct 27: West African judges on Monday fined the state of Niger the equivalent of 15,000 euros for failing to protect a woman sold into slavery aged 12, in a landmark ruling with implications across the region....
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Georgian PM dismissed
TBILISI, Oct 27: Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili dismissed Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze on Monday in a government shake-up following his country’s war with Russia in August....
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Woman stoned to death for adultery
MOGADISHU, Oct 27: Thousands of people gathered on Monday to witness 50 Somali men stone a woman to death after an Islamic court in the southern port of Kismayo found her guilty of adultery, witnesses said....
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Two students killed in US campus shooting
LITTLE ROCK (Arkansas), Oct 27: Two students were killed and another injured in a campus shooting at the University of Central Arkansas at the weekend, police officials said on Monday....
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Race a factor in US presidential poll
WASHINGTON, Oct 27: Can a white American voter be trusted to vote for a black man when he or she is alone in the polling booth and nobody is watching?...
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Protest against S. Korean plant in India
BHUBANESWAR (India), Oct 27: Hundreds of people marched in eastern India on Monday to protest against a plant being built by South Korean steel maker POSCO, police said, the latest in a series of protests delaying the project....
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81-year-old Chinese finds love online
BEIJING, Oct 27: An 81-year-old Chinese man has proved age need not be a barrier to internet love, marrying a 58-year-old woman he met online, a local newspaper reported....
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FBI reports 9,500 victims of hate crimes
WASHINGTON, Oct 27: More than 9,500 people in the United States were victims last year of hate crimes targeted because of their skin colour, religious belief, sexual orientation or ethnic origins, the FBI said on Monday....
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Pentagon on guard for White House ‘wartime transition’
WASHINGTON, Oct 27: The Pentagon has been preparing for months for the first wartime change of presidents in 40 years, a period of heightened vulnerability that, if history is a guide, US adversaries will try to exploit....
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Visa curbs to boost illegal movement, fear experts
MANILA, Oct 27: The number of illegal immigrants worldwide may spike if governments restrict visas in response to the global financial crisis, experts at a UN-backed forum said on Monday....
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Kuwaiti bank assures of deposit guarantee
KUWAIT CITY, Oct 27: The Kuwait government has assured people that it would guarantee deposits at banks after the central bank was forced to save the Gulf Bank from derivatives losses....
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Sharp drop in US papers’ circulation
NEW YORK, Oct 27: US newspapers, already finding advertising revenue fall sharply because of the weak economy, saw circulation decline more steeply than last year in the latest reporting period, an auditing agency said ton Monday....
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BD storm kills two
DHAKA, Oct 27: A tropical storm killed two people and injured dozens as winds of up to 80 kph lashed southern Bangladesh early on Monday, officials said....
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Can smoke and mirrors ease global warming?
OSLO: Backers of extreme technologies to curb global warming advocate dumping iron dust into the seas or placing smoke and mirrors in the sky to dim the sun....
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Taiwan’s China tourism boon stumbles
TAIPEI: Taiwan welcomed the first Chinese visitors arriving on direct flights three months ago as a boon for tourism, but global financial troubles and local political uncertainty might deflate such hopes....
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Fresh hopes and concerns as foetal DNA tests advance
WASHINGTON: Doctors have started using powerful new DNA tests to screen foetuses for a wider range of genetic abnormalities, spotting more problem pregnancies early but stirring fears that the results will...
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Coalition failure may help Likud
Old hands talk of a Middle Eastern version of Murphy’s law: what can go wrong, does – and usually at the worst possible moment. Tzipi Livni’s failure to form a new...
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Return of the visionary
In her essay ‘Playing in the Dark’, Toni Morrison looked back to the founding of America and observed: ‘What was distinctive in the New World was, first of all, its claim...
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