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Iraq war is lost, says Democrat leader
WASHINGTON, April 19: The war in Iraq “is lost” and a US troop surge is failing to bring peace to the country, the leader of the Democratic majority in the US Congress, Harry Reid, said on Thursday.... 
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Hasina vows to return despite ban
NEW YORK, April 19: Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheik Hasina Wajed said on Wednesday that she would defy military government and stick to her plans to return home next week....
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BD court asks govt to explain Khaleda’s status
DHAKA, April 19: The High Court of Bangladesh on Thursday asked the attorney-general’s office to inform the court on Sunday if former prime minister Khaleda Zia was illegally or improperly confined or detained in her cantonment residence....
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12 killed in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU, April 19: Fighting between Ethiopian troops and Somali insurgents flared again in Mogadishu on Thursday, killing at least 12 people, witnesses said....
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Actress Kitty Hart dies
NEW YORK: Singer and actress Kitty Carlisle Hart, whose credits stretched from Broadway musicals to a Marx Brothers movie hit and stints on TV game shows, died on Wednesday at 96, according to a local funeral home and her website....
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Sudan lashes out at UN on ‘false report’
UNITED NATIONS, April 19: Sudan on Thursday lashed out at the United Nations and the Security Council for leaking an unverified report to news media which alleged that the Sudanese government had violated the UN sanctions....
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University gunman’s manifesto of hate
BLACKSBURG (Virginia), April 19: Three days after the United States’ deadliest school shootings, Americans were shocked by a video posted mid-massacre by student Cho Seung-Hui, casting himself as a long-suffering martyr forced to gun down more than 30 people....
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Concern at arms supply to Darfur
UNITED NATIONS, April 19: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday expressed concern over the alleged shipment of arms to Sudan’s Darfur region....
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India starts rebuilding road to China
LEDO (India): India has begun rebuilding a 1,700-km-long road built during World War Two that passes through jungles and mountains and will link the northeast of the country with China via Myanmar.The...
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$4.2bn legacy for fortune-teller
HONG KONG: Asia''s richest woman left her wealth to her fortune-teller in her last known will, Hong Kong media reported on Thursday, predicting a costly legal battle to control her multi-billion-dollar estate....
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Japan lowers detention age
TOKYO: Japan''s parliament voted on Thursday to lower the age at which juveniles can be sent to detention facilities to 12, in the country''s latest controversial measure to crack down on crime....
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Democracy in Bhutan
GUWAHATI: The tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan is to stage mock polls this weekend as a practice run for its planned transformation from absolute monarchy to democracy, officials said on Thursday....
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Man sheds quarter of a ton
NEW YORK: Anyone who feels they need to shed a few kilos might want to consider the efforts of New Yorker Michael Hebranko, who has lost a quarter of ton since vowing to battle the bulge....
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Seven babies born to woman
ALGIERS: An Algerian woman gave birth to seven babies at a public hospital in the capital Algiers, the health ministry spokesman said on Thursday....
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The universe behaves as Einstein said: experts LONDON: Under his name in the Oxford English Dictionary is the simple definition: genius. Yet for decades physicists have been asking the question: did Albert Einstein get it wrong? After half...
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The hidden face of the war: Iraqi refugees
GENEVA: The United Nations was able, at least for a few hours, to draw public attention away from the bombings and attacks that have become routine in Iraq and direct it...
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THE THEORY EXPLAINED
WHEN Einstein wrote his general theory of relativity in 1915, he found a new way to describe gravity. It was not a force, as Sir Isaac Newton had supposed, but a...
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No limit to Putin’s popularity
MOSCOW: Tsar, love object, marketing gimmick — there seems to be no limit to President Vladimir Putin’s popularity among Russians less than a year before he is due to leave the Kremlin....
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Muslim clerics speak out against sorcery
ABU DHABI: Witch doctors have “soiled the image of Islam” by prescribing harmful treatments in the guise of faith healing, according to Muslim clerics and doctors who gathered in Abu Dhabi to affirm the healing powers of the Quran....
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Media find it difficult to cover Lankan conflict
COLOMBO: Near dusk, men with guns enter the village of Awaranthalawa in northern Sri Lanka, shoot and kill six women and a boy, and withdraw to the jungle....
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ME looks to nuclear energy to preserve oil, gas LONDON: The Middle East is looking to nuclear energy as the only way to power booming economies short of burning precious oil and gas reserves....
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Intelligent gaming: current and future trends
LONDON: Gaming has a lot in common with everyone’s favourite heiress, at least in the public consciousness: it’s pretty, but dumb. And now that Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony have released their...
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