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Suicide attacks claim 29 lives in Iraq
TIKRIT (Iraq), Dec 25: Two suicide bombs killed 29 people in Iraq on Tuesday, including 25 who died when a bomber slammed his vehicle into a truck carrying gas cylinders at a checkpoint in the northern oil town of Baiji.... 
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15 killed, 100 missing in Nepal bridge collapse
KATHMANDU, Dec 25: At least 15 people died and hundreds on a religious pilgrimage were missing after an overcrowded bridge collapsed in western Nepal on Tuesday, police and officials said....
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China, India end wargames
BEIJING, Dec 25: China and India wrapped up their first-ever joint military exercises on Tuesday with a drill in which they “wiped out” a group of supposed terrorists along their border, state press reported....
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Egypt to Copyright pyramids
CAIRO, Dec 25: In a potential blow to themed resorts from Vegas to Tokyo, Egypt is to pass a law requiring payment of royalties whenever its ancient monuments, from the pyramids to the sphinx, are reproduced....
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Sri Lanka detains French TV crew
COLOMBO, Dec 25: Sri Lanka detained two foreign television journalists and 11 locals from a Tamil family they were filming in the island’s south, police said on Tuesday....
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Thaksin vows to return to Thailand
HONG KONG, Dec 25: Deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra said on Tuesday he wanted to return to Thailand in February, as he called for reconciliation with the military following weekend elections....
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The corrupt and powerful seem above the law
LONDON: Some of us speculate occasionally, albeit without real cupidity, about what we would do if we suddenly found ourselves in possession of a billion pounds....
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Talks help restore Christmas cheer to Bethlehem
BETHLEHEM (West Bank): Hundreds of Christian pilgrims celebrated Jesus’ birth on Tuesday in the West Bank town where he was born, in an atmosphere made markedly cheerier by the renewal of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks after years of bloody conflict.By...
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Iraq awaits its full ‘awakening’
BAGHDAD: A controversial surge in US troop numbers has cut the death toll in Iraq but prospects for reconciliation between its divided communities remain a distant dream as the conflict enters a new year....
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The inhuman DNA in every person
WASHINGTON: The Human Genome Project, completed in 2003, identified all 3 billion letters of genetic code that together control the development of a person. But human DNA is but a small portion of the DNA in every human....
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