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Eight die in Yemen mosque shooting
SANAA, May 30: A gunman opened fire inside a Yemen mosque on Friday, killing eight people in the second attack in a month targeting worshippers in the ancestral land of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.... 
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3 Gujjars killed in clashes with police
JAIPUR, May 30: At least three people were killed on Friday in clashes between police and an ethnic Indian group demanding job and college quotas, taking the death toll to 42 in a week of protests....
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111 countries adopt cluster bomb ban
DUBLIN, May 30: A landmark international convention banning cluster munitions was formally adopted by 111 countries here on Friday, in a move organisers hope will stigmatise the lethal weapons as much as landmines....
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Lost tribe discovered deep in Amazon
SAO PAULO, May 30: Dramatic images of an isolated Brazilian tribe believed never to have had contact with the outside world were published by officials on Friday to draw attention to threats posed to their way of life....
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2 killed in New York crane collapse
NEW YORK, May 30: At least two people were killed as a crane fell onto a high rise apartment building in the upper east side of Manhattan early on Friday morning....
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Woman lived in man’s closet undetected for a year
TOKYO, May 30: A homeless woman who sneaked into a man’s house and lived undetected in his closet for a year was arrested in Japan after he became suspicious when food mysteriously began disappearing....
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Torrential rains sweep western Europe
ROME, May 30: Italy declared a state of emergency in the north of the country on Friday after flooding and mudslides left at least three people dead in heavy rains that also hit Belgium, Britain, France and Germany....
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Hitler: Berlin’s new tourist attraction?
BERLIN, May 30: A new branch of Madame Tussauds in Berlin is to include in its display of German historical figures the most notorious of all — Adolf Hitler, a spokeswoman for the world-famous museum said on Friday....
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Ex-Croatian general jailed for war crimes
ZAGREB: A Croatian court on Friday sentenced former general Mirko Norac to seven years in jail over his role in the wartime massacre of Serb civilians and prisoners of war....
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Foreign brides seldom find bliss in South Korea
SEOUL: On a matchmaking flight to Vietnam, the status of the South Korean male passengers starts to rise the waiter becomes a restaurant owner, the small-time farmer a prosperous landowner....
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Olympic scam
BEIJING: Tricksters are setting up fake Olympic ticket websites, selling Olympic bonds that do not exist and running fraudulent Olympic-linked competitions, state media has said, warning people not to be taken in....
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Japan’s Criminal gangs
LOS ANGELES: In a society otherwise marked by gentle formality and good manners, the Japanese crime syndicates known as the yakuza have for decades been linked to murder, money laundering, racketeering and pornography....
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New required reading for future White House aides
WASHINGTON: The people who should sit down and read Scott McClellan’s blockbuster new book are the people least likely to take the time to do so right now....
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Chinese battle against time
MIANYANG (China): China’s struggle to overcome earthquake devastation was compounded by confusion after an official denied a report that 1.3 million people would evacuate from a city threatened by a swelling “quake lake”....
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