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S. Korea’s opposition party sues speaker of parliament: 100 injured in scuffle
SEOUL, Jan 4: South Korea’s main opposition party filed a criminal lawsuit on Sunday against the country’s parliament speaker and police chief over a scuffle that left about 100 party members and security guards injured.... 
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Ghana election termed ‘success of democracy’
ACCRA (Ghana), Jan 4: Ghana’s largely peaceful and credible presidential election was a rare example of a functioning democracy in Africa and should be a model for the continent, African leaders and voters said on Sunday....
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Rice cancels China trip
WASHINGTON, Jan 4: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has cancelled a planned trip to China this week to deal with Israel’s military offensive in Gaza, the State Department said on Sunday....
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Khamenei warns Maliki against US security pact
TEHRAN, Jan 4: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Sunday warned Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki against a security pact with the United States, the official IRNA news agency reported....
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No plan for snap election, says Japanese PM
TOKYO, Jan 4: Japan’s unpopular Prime Minister Taro Aso signalled on Sunday he would not call elections at least for a few months, pledging instead to tackle the worsening economic crisis....
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French warship captures 19 pirates
PARIS, Jan 4: A French warship captured 19 Somali pirates on Sunday when it came to the rescue of two cargo ships threatened in the Gulf of Aden, the office of President Nicolas Sarkozy said....
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If it was your home, what hope restraint?: Gaza invasion
LONDON: Israel’s invasion of Gaza comes hard on the heels of its massive air campaign which, it says, is a justified retaliation for the Hamas rocket attacks against southern Israel....
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‘Wireless power’ spells end for cables
LONDON: No more batteries, no more chargers and no more wire spaghetti. This is the future promised by ‘wireless power’, a means of broadcasting electricity through the air to laptops, iPods and other gadgets without the need for cables and sockets....
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Financial crisis a boon to money management websites
SAN FRANCISCO: Over the past two years, websites such as Mint, Buxfer, Geezeo and Wesabe are wooing users with powerful online money management tools and the promise of access to their financial information from anywhere in the world....
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Beginning of the end to Lankan conflict
COLOMBO: Sri Lankans celebrated the fall of the Tamil Tigers’ de facto capital with street parties, but military observers say bloodier battles may still lie ahead as the rebels take refuge in the jungles....
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