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Maoists kill 10 policemen
NEW DELHI, April 16: Maoist rebels attacked a police outpost in a remote, thickly forested area of the central Indian state of Chattisgarh, killing 10 policemen, a police official said on Sunday.... 
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Rumsfeld under renewed attack over Iraq debacle
WASHINGTON, April 16: Senior Democrats sought to raise the heat on embattled Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Sunday as Republicans and the Pentagon came together to defend him and the way he has conducted the war in Iraq....
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Cuba expels Czech envoy as US spy
HAVANA, April 15: A Czech diplomat headed for Prague on Saturday after Cuba accused him of spying for the United States, angering EU diplomats who recently lifted sanctions against the Communist island....
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Thousands of bombers ready to greet US attack: Iran: UN chief backs talks
TEHRAN, April 16: Iran again warned the United States on Sunday against attacking its nuclear facilities, saying it had tens of thousands of suicide bombers ready and can count on the support of militants across the region....
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Saddam trial gives Kurds hopes for justice
SEWSENAN: Six-month-old Rizgar Ahmed’s body was found with his dead mother’s breast still in his mouth. His two-year-old brother Sardar lay dead nearby....
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US Muslim leaders meet Dalai Lama
NEW YORK, April 16: In an effort to quell the anti-Islam tide and to improve its declining image in the West, prominent Muslim leaders on Saturday met for the first time...
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Italy still faces political stalemate
ROME, April 16: Italy faced a second week of political stalemate on Sunday, prompting concern from Pope Benedict XVI, with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi still refusing to recognize his leftist rival Romano Prodi’s narrow victory in last week’s general election....
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Palestinian PM calls for unity govt
GAZA CITY (Gaza Strip), April 16: The Hamas-led Palestinian government on Sunday renewed calls for a “national unity” coalition government with rival factions in a bid to stave off rising tensions...
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US warships sailing to Yemen coast
ROME, April 16: A Dutch and two US warships were sailing toward the Yemeni coast on Sunday to aid a US-flagged sailboat under attack by pirates, the Italian port authority said....
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Behind the military ‘revolt’ in US
WASHINGTON: The calls by a growing number of recently retired generals for the resignation of Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have created the most serious public confrontation between the military and an administration since President Harry S....
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America’s lukewarm war with China
WASHINGTON: Chinese President Hu Jintao visits the White House this week hoping to update Chairman Mao’s adage about who rules whom: In an era of global commerce and finance, power flows...
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Confusion marks quake centenary
MENLO PARK (US): At every corner, the San Francisco area is commemorating the 100th anniversary of the April 18, 1906, earthquake that marked one of the worst natural disasters in US history....
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Britons feeling ‘tired of Tony’
LONDON: Verra Budimlija was once a classic fan of Prime Minister Tony Blair — she’s 40, a well-educated advertising executive, the kind of voter who propelled Blair and the Labour Party to power in 1997....
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Drumbeat of war drowning out wiser counsels LONDON: The neo-con regimes in Washington and Tehran are on collision course after last week’s announcement by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that his country has ‘joined the nuclear club’....
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