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Bombs kill more than 35 people across Iraq
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Bomb attacks in Shi’ite areas of Baghdad and in northern Iraq killed more than 35 people on Wednesday, following weeks of violence by Sunni Islamist insurgents determined to unleash sectarian confrontation.
Ahmadinejad may face polls charges
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may face charges for accompanying his former chief of staff to register for June’s presidential vote, the country’s electoral watchdog said.
N. Korea’s atom bomb work delayed
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Increasingly tough financial sanctions, an arms embargo and other international restrictions on trade with North Korea have significantly delayed expansion of Pyongyang’s illicit nuclear arms programme, according to a confidential report by a UN panel of experts seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
Sharif poised to form strong government
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Toppled in a 1999 military coup, jailed and exiled, Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif has made a triumphant election comeback and looks set to form a stable government capable of implementing reforms needed to rescue the fragile economy.
Obama cries about Benghazi
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President Obama broke his steely exterior and shed a tear during a heated moment of a press conference where he was questioned about the alleged cover up over the attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi.
Bangladesh fire kills eight more, toll hits 892
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Eight people were killed when a fire swept through a clothing factory in Bangladesh, police and an industry association official said yesterday, as the death toll from the collapse of another factory building two weeks ago climbed above 900.
Boat carrying Muslims capsizes
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A boat carrying about 100 Rohingya Muslims capsized off western Myanmar with many feared drowned at the start of a mass evacuation from low-lying regions ahead of an approaching storm, a UN official said on Tuesday.
Pakistani prisoner dies in India after beating
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A convicted Pakistani militant jailed in India died on Thursday after being beaten by another inmate in an apparent revenge attack for the death of an Indian spy prisoner, threatening already fraught relations between the nations.
Maduro sends military to fight crime
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday sent some 3 000 troops into the streets of the capital of Caracas to crack down on rampant crime that has made the Opec nation one of the most dangerous in the world.
Libya crisis deepens
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Libya’s political crisis deepened on Wednesday as armed groups surrounding two ministries in the capital said they had formed an alliance to present an expanded list of six demands that included the resignation of prime minister Ali Zeidan.
