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North Korea threatens to turn South into ‘debris’: Campaign against Kim Jong-Il irks Pyongyang
SEOUL, Oct 28: North Korea accused South Korea on Tuesday of planning a pre-emptive strike and threatened to reduce it to “debris” in retaliation.... 
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Congo army prepares to abandon town to rebels
GOMA (Congo), Oct 28: Congo’s army was preparing on Tuesday to abandon a town in the blood-stained easterly province of North Kivu in the face of a rebel advance that has sent tens of thousands of civilians fleeing for their lives....
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Maldives votes in presidential run-off
MALE, Oct 28: Voters in the Maldives turned out in droves on Tuesday for the tiny atoll nation’s first democratic presidential run-off, pitting Asia’s longest serving leader against a former political prisoner....
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Afghan court jails S. African for 16 years over drugs
KABUL, Oct 28: An Afghan court sentenced a South African man to 16 years in prison for trying to board a plane at Kabul’s international airport with a bag full of heroin, the government’s anti-narcotics department said on Tuesday....
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Berlin to bid farewell to Tempelhof airport
BERLIN, Oct 28: Germans will bid a mournful goodbye this week to Tempelhof Airport, the historic hub of the Berlin Airlift which is closing after more than 80 tumultuous years of service....
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Vatican calls on Hindus to stop violence against Christians
VATICAN CITY, Oct 28: The Vatican on Tuesday urged Hindus to follow Mahatma Gandhi’s example and unite in support of non-violence, following a wave of violence against Christians in eastern countries....
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Google settles copyright dispute
WASHINGTON, Oct 28: Google and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and Authors Guild announced on Tuesday that they have settled a copyright dispute over the Internet giant’s plans to scan millions of books....
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Five kidnapped Chinese workers killed in Sudan
KHARTOUM, Oct 28: Rebels in Darfur shot and killed five kidnapped Chinese oil workers on Monday and two others escaped with gunshot wounds in the first deadly foreign hostage ordeal since the war began....
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Chinese MPs sacked over corruption
BEIJING, Oct 28: The Chinese government removed many legislators and officials on Tuesday, state media said, with reports suggesting that three had been involved in corruption and other forms of economic crime....
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Russia opposes EU monitors in Georgian rebel regions
SAINT PETERSBURG, Oct 28: Russia opposes the deployment of European Union monitors in two Georgian rebel provinces and will enforce security there itself, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday....
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Official admits to leaving top-secret file on train
LONDON, Oct 28: A senior civil servant pleaded guilty on Tuesday to breaching the Official Secrets Act by leaving a top-secret intelligence file on a commuter train....
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Women in red drive men crazy: study
WASHINGTON, Oct 28: If a woman wants to drive the men wild, she might want to dress in red....
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LTTE planes bomb military base
COLOMBO, Oct 28: Tamil Tiger rebels carried two air strikes near a northern military base and oil tanks in the Sri Lankan capital on Tuesday....
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‘Australia police bravery awards brutal’
CANBERRA, Oct 28: Australian Aborigines on Tuesday said a police decision to award bravery medals to 22 officers involved in riots sparked by the death of an indigenous man in police custody was “cheap, brutal and thuggish”....
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One million Thai workers risk losing jobs
BANGKOK, Oct 28: One million Thai workers were at risk of losing their jobs next year because of a sharp fall in export orders, the Federation of Thai Industries said on Tuesday....
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Child traffickers active in Philippines
MANILA, Oct 28: Human traffickers were preying on children displaced by the Muslim insurgency in the southern Philippines, an independent monitor said on Tuesday....
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Indonesia’s sultan eyes presidency
YOGYAKARTA (Indonesia), Oct 28: The Sultan of Yogyakarta, a revered Indonesian royal who has long harboured political ambitions, told an audience of thousands made up of princes and commoners that he would run for president next year....
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‘Obama wins!’ proclaims New Mexico bi-monthly
NEW YORK, Oct 28: A newspaper in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has decided to make a giant ‘leap of faith’ by proclaiming “Obama Wins” in its October-November issue which hit the newsstand on Tuesday....
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Plot to murder Obama: two suspects held
ST DAVID’S (Pennsylvania), Oct 28: Two white supremacists have been arrested for threatening to kill Barack Obama in a chilling twist revealed by officials as the race for the White House headed for its final seven days....
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Syria seen pursuing engagement despite American raid
BEIRUT: A US raid in Syria has irritated Damascus, but is unlikely to deflect its drive to escape international isolation and engage with Washington after next week’s US presidential election....
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Raphael masterpiece returns after decade
FLORENCE: After 10 years of painstaking study and restoration that tested both cutting edge technology and human patience, one of the greatest masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance is returning to the public....
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The Republicans’ dirty secret — torture
So what will be left of the Republican Party after next week’s US election? The answer lies in the sands of Florida, where the sunshine-state Republicans have nominated an unrepentant torturer as their candidate for Congress....
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Provocative cross-border attack
IN INTERNATIONAL relations, silence can be as eloquent as any official statement. And the silence from the United States after Sunday’s attack on a house in eastern Syria, just across the border with Iraq, told its own story....
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Decline in depth of Arctic winter sea ice
LONDON: The thickness of sea ice in the Arctic dramatically declined last winter for the first time since records began in the early 1990s....
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