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Mogadishu clashes leave 73 dead
MOGADISHU, April 21: Shells pounded Mogadishu on Saturday, killing at least 73 people to swell a death-toll already in the hundreds from this week’s battles pitting militias and Islamists against Somali and Ethiopian troops.... 
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US wants ‘political level’ talks with India over N-dispute
WASHINGTON, April 21: The United States wants “political level” talks with India for removing differences over a nuclear deal the two sides are trying to conclude before a change of government in Washington....
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Bush rebuffs Democrat over Iraq
EAST GRAND RAPIDS, (Michigan) April 21: President George W. Bush on Friday rebuffed a top Democrat’s charge the Iraq war was lost and asserted progress despite some of the worst carnage since Bush ordered more troops to the region....
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Space tourist, Russia-US crew return to Earth
MISSION CONTROL MOSCOW, April 21: A Russian Soyuz capsule with a space tourist, US billionaire Charles Simonyi, and a Russian-US crew landed safely in Kazakhstan at 1231 GMT on Saturday....
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Bhutan holds mock election
PARO, April 21: The people of the isolated Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan streamed into polling stations on Saturday for a “mock election” designed as a dress rehearsal for the country’s first truly democratic polls next year....
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Police bring charges against Blair aides
LONDON, April 21: The cash-for-honours case, in which the name of Prime Minister Tony Blair has frequently appeared, has hit the UK media headlines once again with reports that two of...
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Indian teachers ‘purify’ students with cow urine
MUMBAI, April 21: Indian teachers sprinkled cow urine on low-caste students to purify them and drive away evil, reports said on Saturday, in a country where millions of people remain oppressed at the bottom of the ancient Hindu caste system....
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Gunman kills hostage at Nasa Centre
HOUSTON, April 21: An armed man killed a hostage, then himself, at Nasa’s Johnson Space Centre on Friday, the latest incident to rattle the United States after the shooting massacre this week at Virginia Tech university....
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Norway to resume talks with LTTE
COLOMBO, April 21: Norway is to resume talks with the LTTE in a bid to revive Sri Lanka’s moribund peace process, Norwegian Embassy sources said on Saturday....
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Castro meets Chinese official
HAVANA, April 21: Convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has not appeared in public for almost nine months, met with a high-ranking Chinese Communist Party official for an hour on Friday, Cuban state media said....
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Disabled Afghan athletes block anti-TV rally
KABUL, April 21: Athletes from Afghanistan’s disabled Olympics team formed a cordon to block a protest march on Saturday against a popular television station raided by police over a news item on the attorney-general this week....
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Man shot dead in London
LONDON, April 21: Police have launched a murder inquiry after four masked men shot dead a 34-year-old man in a Leeds restaurant, West Yorkshire Police said on Saturday....
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Developing world a growing cancer risk: experts
SINGAPORE, April 21: Developing countries may account for more than half of all cancer cases in the world by 2020 as their ageing populations increase, medical experts said on Saturday.Donald...
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Sense of proportion about fear and death has been lost
LONDON: It’s been a good week for death. In Iraq, 200 people were blown to bits in what witnesses called “a swimming pool of blood” with “pieces of flesh all over the place”....
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‘I will protect you’, Sarkozy assures France
Reclaiming the passion he had recently toned down, he dripped with sweat as he promised to be France’s “protector” and restore faith in a country crippled by unemployment, economic stagnation and self-doubt.“I...
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‘Exercise may prevent diabetes in older adults’
NEW YORK: Resistance training may not only help to build muscle in older people, it may also be warding off type 2 diabetes, a new study demonstrates....
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Gender inequality persists in Asia
UNITED NATIONS: Asia, a sprawling continent which has produced the world’s largest number of female heads of government, lags far behind both in gender equality and gender empowerment....
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Probe against Arab-Israeli MP kept confidential
WASHINGTON: The Israeli leader of an Arab-nationalist political party is under investigation, but an Israeli magistrate has put a ban on detailing in the Israeli media just what charges he faces....
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