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It’s our turn for power, says coup leader: Guinea PM obeys junta
CONAKRY, Dec 25: The leader of a coup in Guinea tightened his grip on the west African state on Thursday, winning the allegiance of the toppled government, despite growing international calls for swift elections....
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Russia kills 12 rebels in Ingushetia operation
MOSCOW, Dec 25: Twelve rebels were killed in an operation by Russian authorities in the country’s turbulent Ingushetia region, Russian news agencies reported Thursday, citing security officials....
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Italian army can’t defeat Mafia, says filmmaker
LOS ANGELES, Dec 25: The Italian director of a hit movie about the Naples Mafia believes that attempting to defeat the mob by military force is doomed to fail and eradicating organised crime could take a generation....
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Bush reverses pardon of developer
WASHINGTON, Dec 25: US President George Bush on Wednesday rescinded his pardon announced a day earlier of a New York real estate developer, the White House said, after new information came...
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Three Turkish soldiers killed in Kurd attack
DIYARBAKIR (Turkey), Dec 25: Kurdish rebels launched a deadly attack in southeastern Turkey hours after the Turkish and Iraqi prime ministers vowed a fresh clampdown on the separatists, officials said on Thursday....
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Camara no stranger to mutiny
Captain Moussa Dadis Camara rose from relative obscurity to lead a coup in Guinea and then declare himself the new president, but his peers say he is no stranger to mutiny....
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Canadian family celebrates Christmas week miracle
OTTAWA, Dec 25: A Canadian family was celebrating a Christmas week miracle on Thursday, after the rescue of their wife and mother who had been trapped for three days in the snow....
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Indian Maoists kill seven villagers
RANCHI, Dec 25: Suspected Maoist rebels have killed seven people in eastern India in the past two days, police said on Thursday....
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Police arrest ‘devoted’ mother
TOKYO, Dec 25: Japanese police arrested a woman believed to be a devoted mother for allegedly trying to murder her toddler daughter by injecting her with rotten water in hospital, an official said on Thursday....
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19 killed in Ukraine blast
YEVPATORIA (Ukraine), Dec 25: Nineteen people were killed and another 10 missing after an explosion ripped through an apartment block in a Ukrainian Black Sea resort town, local officials said on Thursday....
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Tigers’ bases bombed
COLOMBO, Dec 25: The Sri Lankan government, after disregarding a call by Catholic bishops in the country for a one-day Christmas truce, bombed the Tamil tigers defences in Kilinochchi district on Christmas eve and Christmas day....
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For Sierra Leone diamond mine children, school is worth a gem
KOIDU (Sierra Leone): Under the watchful eye of security guards, boys and girls dig for diamonds in illegal mines of eastern Sierra Leone to pay for their own schooling and put food on the family table....
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Philippines tribe on the edge as uplift comes to highlands
TAYUM (Philippines): Goats and oxen graze among the ruins of a paper mill by the Abra River, a big-ticket project which brought war on the Tingguian tribal people of the northern Philippines highlands....
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Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home
SAN FRANCISCO: The Apple computer was invented in a garage. Same with the Google search engine. Now, tinkerers are working at home with the basic building blocks of life itself....
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Myanmar cyclone survivors struggle to rebuild lives
KUNGYANGON (Myanmar): With tents still serving as homes and schools seven months after Cyclone Nargis lashed Myanmar, survivors say they are struggling to rebuild their lives as international aid trickles in....
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A port in Zimbabwe’s storm
BULAWAYO (Zimbabwe): There is a perfect humanitarian storm in my country. The threats of Aids, poverty, hyperinflation and malnutrition, and now cholera, combined with a regime that has given up on its people, add up to an all-but-untenable state of affairs....
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