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Hamas warns of suicide attacks if Israel unleashes offensive
GAZA CITY, Dec 22: Hamas agreed on Monday to hold fire against Israel for 24 hours, but warned it would resume suicide attacks if the Jewish state launched an offensive against its Gaza stronghold.... 
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Japan asked US to be ready for N-strike on China: archives
TOKYO, Dec 22: Japan asked the United States in 1965 to be ready to attack China with nuclear weapons if the two Asian powers went to war, newly declassified documents said Monday....
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Blood from mosquito traps Finnish suspect
HELSINKI, Dec 22: Police in Finland believe they have caught a car-thief thanks to a DNA sample taken from a sample of his blood found inside a mosquito....
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5 Muslims convicted of plotting to kill US soldiers
CAMDEN (New Jersey), Dec 22: Five Muslim immigrants were convicted on Monday of plotting to massacre US soldiers at a New Jersey military base in a case the government said demonstrated...
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Colombo threatens to ban LTTE
COLOMBO, Dec 22: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Monday warned the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) that if they did not free the Tamil civilians held in bondage in...
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Snow, rain, ice blanket most of US
WASHINGTON, Dec 22: A massive winter storm blanketed the US West Coast with snow, sleet and ice early on Monday while blizzards and snow squalls struck the Northeast and Midwest, killing at least four people and making travel dangerous....
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Byzantine era gold coins found in Israel
JERUSALEM, Dec 22: Excavations have unearthed a hoard of over 1,300-year-old gold coins under a car park by the ancient walls of Jerusalem, the Israeli Antiquities Authority said on Monday....
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Shoe-thrower’s brother slams profiteers
BAGHDAD, Dec 22: A brother of the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at US President George W. Bush in Baghdad on Monday slammed people around the world who are trying to exploit the incident for commercial gain....
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Men dominated ‘out-of-Africa migration’
PARIS, Dec 22: Men significantly outnumbered women in the “out-of-Africa” migration some 60,000 years ago that eventually populated the rest of the world, according to a new study....
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China’s anti-piracy mission shows rising clout
BEIJING: Apart from goodwill visits, the last time Chinese warships sailed to Africa was some 600 years ago, when the Ming Dynasty eunuch Admiral Zheng He commanded one of the mightiest armadas in the world on a diplomatic mission....
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How greed pushed trust into freefall in US
NEW YORK: “What an ideology is, is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality,” Alan Greenspan told the Congressional House oversight and government reform committee on October 23....
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Fading Austrian towns look east for revival
WOLFSTHAL (Austria): Wolfsthal, about 50 km from Vienna, is the end of the line. When the train from the Austrian capital pulls into this silent village on Austria’s eastern border with Slovakia, only a trickle of people alight and head home past a closed cafe and empty football pitch....
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Continuing lies about Iraq
Triumphalists are getting off on Iraq again, intoning hallelujah songs as they did after staging the fall of Saddam’s statue then again and again, sweet lullabies to send us into blissful sleep and wake to a new dawn....
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Philippine province tries to shake off mafia image
BANGUED, (Philippines): Eustaquio Bersamin visits the cemetery on weekdays and prays by the grave of his brother, a local political kingpin who was assassinated as he left a church in December 2006....
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