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Two bombs leave 28 dead in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Dec 27: Two bombs killed 28 people and wounded 55 in Baghdad on Saturday, police said.... 
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Moving scenes as wailing relatives throng Gaza hospital
GAZA CITY, Dec 27: Relatives wail as the mangled bodies of loved ones are brought into Al Shifa hospital here on Saturday following Israeli air strikes that killed over 200 people in the Palestinian enclave....
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Thousands rage in Cairo against Israeli strikes
CAIRO, Dec 27: About 2,000 angry Egyptians demonstrated in Cairo against Israel’s attacks on the Gaza Strip, accusing President Hosni Mubarak of being an accomplice....
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32 die in China lift collapse
BEIJING, Dec 27: An explosion rocked a Chinese village and a construction lift plummeted to the ground in a provincial capital on Saturday, killing 32 people, the official Xinhua news agency said....
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Bangladesh rhetoric heats up, motorcade attacked
DHAKA, Dec 27: Candidates in elections which will return Bangladesh to democracy accused their rivals of corruption and vote-rigging on Saturday and an attack on a former leader’s motorcade fanned fears of more violence....
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Tiger chief’s hideouts bombed
Colombo, Dec 27: The Sri Lankan air force on Saturday bombed suspected hideouts of Tamil Tiger chieftain Velupillai Prabhakaran in thick jungles of Mullaitivu, a north-eastern district which commands access to the LTTE stronghold of Kilinochchi....
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Reactions: a snapshot
GAZA, Dec 27: An armed attack on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Saturday drew varying reactions from world states, international bodies and political leaders....
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Escalation feared
JERUSALEM, Dec 27: Israel’s air attack on the Gaza Strip on Saturday could signal a return to a much higher level of violence in the conflict with Palestinian Islamist group Hamas after nine months of lower-level confrontations....
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