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US military accused of lying to create war heroes
WASHINGTON, April 25: A pair of high-profile US army figures accused the military of spreading outright lies and manipulating their stories for a hero-starved public, during testimony before Congress on Monday.... 
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Iraq withheld casualty figures: UN report
UNITED NATIONS, April 25: A United Nations report revealed on Wednesday that the Iraqi government held recent casualty figures from the United Nations, fearing they would be used to present a grim picture which would undermine the coalition’s security efforts....
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Monks and elephants rally in Bangkok
BANGKOK, April 25: Hundreds of saffron-robed monks led nine elephants in a march on Thailand’s parliament on Wednesday, demanding that Buddhism be declared the kingdom''s official religion....
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Woman wearing burqa denied bus trip
STOCKHOLM: A burqa-clad woman in Sweden was refused passage on a city bus in the town of Malmoe, allegedly because the driver said he could not identify the woman, media reported on Wednesday....
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EU chief meets Iran’s nuclear negotiator
ANKARA, April 25: EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana met Wednesday with Iran''s nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani in a new attempt to find a way through the crisis over the Islamic republic''s nuclear programme....
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Ferocious battles grip Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, April 25: Government forces and Tamil rebels were locked in fierce combat in northern Sri Lanka on Wednesday, a day after the guerrillas bombed a key military base, the two sides said....
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Israeli PM faces criminal probe
JERUSALEM, April 25: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, already weakened by a string of headline-grabbing scandals, was on Wednesday threatened with another criminal probe into suspected corruption....
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Shelling, fire rattle Mogadishu
MOGADISHU, April 25: Shelling and tank fire rattled the Somali capital Wednesday as fighting between government-backed Ethiopian forces and Islamist guerrillas entered its second week, with hundreds already killed....
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Russians bid farewell to Yeltsin
MOSCOW: Russia bid solemn farewell on Wednesday to Boris Yeltsin with an ornate state funeral at which President Vladimir Putin and two former US presidents paid tribute to the man who brought democracy to the ruins of the Soviet Union....
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Pope urges young to drive safely
ROME: Pope Benedict XVI called on Wednesday on motorists, especially the young, to take care on the roads after the release of UN figures showing accidents worldwide claim 1.2...
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India aims for 500m phone connections by 2010
NEW DELHI: India expects to have half a billion phone connections in place by the end of the decade, a minister said on Wednesday, as the country tries to better connect its sprawling rural population....
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Genes behind poor eyesight identified
WASHINGTON: US scientists have identified two genes responsible for macular degeneration, the gradual deterioration of eyesight in the elderly that can lead to blindness, a study showed this week....
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Ethnic unrest in Nepal
KATHMANDU: Nepal''s government has launched a probe into ethnic unrest in the south of the country that has killed at least 60 people and cast a shadow over a landmark peace deal, a minister said on Wednesday....
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Lankans fighting for a land that may soon not be there
COLOMBO: As the world prepares for yet another ‘scary’ report by the United Nations panel on global warming and climate change, a Sri Lankan specialist in the group says Tamil rebels...
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Dalit woman favoured to win polls in UP
NEW DELHI: When the results of the ongoing elections in northern Uttar Pradesh state are out on May 11 chances are high that a ‘hung’ assembly would emerge, reflective of the highly fragmented polity in India’s most populous province....
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Bhutan’s doubts about democracy
los angeles: It often comes as a bewildering surprise to Americans that not all people think democracy is the best system of government, even when they value its ideals....
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Appetite for gold in their genes
ALLAHABAD: Gold. It’s the ultimate luxury gift and nowhere more so than in India where brides are draped in gold from dowries laden with jewellery....
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Workers revive tea business
MUNNAR (India): Faced with unemployment in their failing tea estates, about two years ago, tea pluckers in the rolling highlands of Kerala responded by forming cooperatives to buy out their former employers Tata Tea and turn the gardens into profitable enterprises....
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A shrewd survey of India since World War II
LONDON: It’s in the nature of nations to be addicted to their own histories. Older, pre-national communities, one imagines, occupied themselves with mythology. The secular nation, agog, rehearses its history, the very reasons and outcomes of its existence, to itself....
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