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The Russian gas supply conundrum
MOSCOW: Possession, the saying goes, is nine-tenths of the law.... 
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Chinese media fears recession riots
PARIS, Jan 7: A stark warning by state media on Wednesday of possible mass unrest in China signalled deepening fears over the global recession, as Europe grappled with more job losses and an energy cut off during a winter freeze....
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Turkish police detain 40 in coup probe
ISTANBUL, Jan 7: Turkish police detained about 40 people including three retired generals on Wednesday, media said, widening an investigation into an alleged plot to topple EU aspirant Turkey’s Islamist-rooted AK Party government....
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Ghana opposition leader sworn in as president
ACCRA, Jan 7: Ghana swore in opposition leader John Atta Mills as president on Wednesday in a democratic transfer of power that won plaudits from around the world for one of Africa’s most attractive investment destinations....
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Lankan govt hits Tigers with ban, assaults
COLOMBO, Jan 7: Sri Lanka hit the Tamil Tigers on Wednesday with a terrorist designation it lifted as part of ill-fated 2002 truce, as soldiers pressured the separatists’ last stronghold on the Jaffna Peninsula....
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Clout, politics behind Turkish diplomacy over Gaza
ANKARA: Turkey’s frenetic diplomacy to win a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas reflects its new-found clout in the Middle East and is also driven to appease a public opinion infuriated by the mounting death toll of civilians....
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Guinea junta arrests former military chief
CONAKRY (Guinea), Jan 7: The junta that seized power of Guinea has arrested several former high-ranking military officials who were suspected of planning a counter coup, including the country’s former army chief of staff, officers said....
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200 foreigners found on boat in Indonesian waters
BANDA ACEH (Indonesia), Jan 7: A wooden boat with nearly 200 people on board was found drifting off the northern tip of Indonesia’s Sumatra island on Wednesday, officials said....
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Toddler found alive after five days in a well
BRASILIA (Brazil), Jan 7: A 21-month-old girl who went missing during a New Year’s party in northern Brazil was found alive on Tuesday at the bottom of an abandoned well after five days without food or water, national media reported....
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Blast halts train services
COLOMBO: A powerful explosion ripped through a railway track just outside the Sri Lankan capital on Wednesday causing disruption to commuter services, police said....
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Google apologises after Chinese crackdown
SHANGHAI: Google and other major Internet sites apologised on Wednesday after the Chinese government accused them of failing to police links on their web pages that could lead to pornographic material....
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Woman lashed to pole and burnt to death
PORT MORESBY: A young Papua New Guinea woman was lashed naked to a pole and burnt to death in what authorities fear may be another sorcery killing in the jungle interior of the country, local media reported on Wednesday....
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UK’s west coast main line grinds to a halt
LONDON: Passengers travelling between London and the midlands, northern England and Scotland faced chaos on Wednesday after damage to overhead power lines brought services to a standstill....
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Brain stimulation helps Parkinson’s patients
WASHINGTON: Patients with Parkinson’s disease show significant improvement after six months of deep brain stimulation, but the invasive treatment also carries the risk of serious complications, researchers reported on Wednesday....
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Free Tussauds entry for Obama inauguration
LONDON: Madame Tussauds is to give US citizens free entry to the London tourist attraction on Jan 20, to mark Barack Obama’s inauguration as US president, it said on Wednesday....
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Why do they hate the West so much, we will ask
So once again, Israel has opened the gates of hell to the Palestinians. Forty civilian refugees dead in a United Nations school, three more in another....
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Compassion is for the birds, say US Buddhists
POOLESVILLE (Maryland): As people around the world resolved to be more thoughtful and caring in the new year, a group of Buddhists in the United States is preaching that compassion is for the birds....
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Digital Hemingway archive opened
Students of the works of Ernest Hemingway, the Nobel prize-winning novelist with a powerful literal and literary punch, have been granted an important boon this week with the opening of a...
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