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Snowfall forces BA to cancel 114 flights
LONDON: After nearly two weeks of baggage chaos and hundreds of cancelled flights, London Heathrow airport was hit by bad weather on Sunday which forced British Airways to cancel 114 flights.... 
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Long queues in Egypt for bread that’s almost free
CAIRO: Abdel Nabi Salim’s main job in life is queuing for bread....
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Mugabe relies on military brass
HARARE: Zimbabwe’s generals occupy no official posts in its ruling party, but analysts say they will play a crucial role in President Robert Mugabe’s drive to stay in power.The...
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Rising food, fuel prices spark riots in African states
DAKAR, April 6: African governments are nervously confronting a mounting wave of often deadly social unrest caused by the soaring cost of food and fuel....
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Woman threatens suicide near Israeli parliament
JERUSALEM, April 6: A woman demanding wheelchairs for her children drove a van close to Israel’s parliament on Sunday and threatened to blow up the vehicle....
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Zimbabwe ruling party demands vote recount
HARARE, April 6: Zimbabwe’s ruling party refused to release its grip on power on Sunday, demanding a presidential election recount as Robert Mugabe’s feared war veterans tried to seize several white-owned farms....
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Fastest one-gigabit chip developed
SEOUL: South Korea’s Hynix Semiconductor said on Sunday it has developed what it calls the fastest data-processing one-gigabit memory chip for cellphones and other mobile applications....
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Police search temple of polygamist sect in Texas
FORT WORTH (Texas): Police searched the temple of a polygamist sect’s compound in Texas as authorities pressed ahead with an investigation into possible child abuse, US media reported on Sunday....
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Over 60,000 visit atom-smashing lab
GENEVA: More than 60,000 people this weekend visited the immense cathedral of cables and steel at CERN, Europe’s atom-smashing laboratory that could soon unleash some secrets of the universe....
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Egypt detains 95 over strike
CAIRO: Egyptian authorities arrested 95 people including politicians and bloggers on Sunday for inciting unrest by calling for a general strike around the country, a security official said.“Ninety-five...
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Web video surge brings broadband overload
LONDON: They are calling it the broadband crunch. Experts have warned that the amount of data travelling across the internet is growing so fast that the network could become overloaded and grind to a virtual standstill....
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