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• 2 bomb blasts leave 7 dead, 52 wounded in India

  World › 05:42 PM JST - 22nd November

  Suspected militants set off two bombs outside a police station in India's restive northeast on Sunday, killing seven people and wounding more than 50, police…

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• Indonesian ferry sinks; 9 dead, some 230 rescued

  World › 05:26 PM JST - 22nd November

  Rescuers saved more than 230 people aboard an Indonesian passenger ferry that sank Sunday in rough waters off Sumatra island, but at least nine people…

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• Police identify gunman in deadly Saipan rampage

  World › 05:24 PM JST - 22nd November

  The gunman who killed four people and wounded nine in a shooting rampage on the Pacific island of Saipan was identified Sunday as a Chinese…

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• Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle

  World › 11:52 AM JST - 22nd November

  Invoking the memory of Edward M Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition…

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• Restored machine to explore mysteries of Big Bang

  World › 05:17 AM JST - 22nd November

  Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a…

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• Pope and Anglican leader agree on closer relations

  World › 05:16 AM JST - 22nd November

  After offering a home in his church to disaffected Anglicans, Pope Benedict XVI assured the archbishop of Canterbury on Saturday that he is still committed…

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• Life sentence requested for U.S. suspect in Italy murder case

  World › 04:46 AM JST - 22nd November

  Prosecutors on Saturday requested life in prison for an American student and her ex-boyfriend accused in the fatal stabbing of her British roommate during a…

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• Italian police arrest 2 linked to Mumbai attacks

  World › 02:46 AM JST - 22nd November

  Italian police on Saturday arrested a Pakistani father and son who allegedly spent just over $200 to set up a reliable and untraceable phone network…

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• Sri Lanka to release 136,000 Tamil war refugees

  World › 02:33 AM JST - 22nd November

  Sri Lanka will release next month the remaining 136,000 Tamil refugees still in the squalid and overrun government camps where they've been detained since the…

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• China says 37 dead, 71 trapped in mine explosion

  World › 04:43 PM JST - 21st November

  A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 37 people and trapping 71 others nearly a third of…

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• Tanzania, Zambia seek one-time ivory distribution to Japan, China

  World › 04:29 PM JST - 21st November

  Tanzania and Zambia have proposed they be allowed to sell ivory of African elephants, whose international deals are prohibited under the Washington Convention, just one…

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• NBA broadcasters suspended for Iranian remarks

  World › 03:02 PM JST - 21st November

  Two Los Angeles Clippers basketball broadcasters were suspended one game by the Fox Sports Prime Ticket cable network for their comments about an Iranian-born NBA…

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• Hospital hearing set for Fort Hood suspect

  World › 07:15 AM JST - 21st November

  An attorney for the U.S. Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood says his client will have his first court hearing in…

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• Republicans blast health bill

  World › 05:53 AM JST - 21st November

  Republicans on Friday continued to assail the majority Democrats' newly minted health care legislation as a collection of tax increases, cuts in services for the…

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• 6 world powers press Iran on nuclear issue

  World › 05:46 AM JST - 21st November

  Representatives of six world powers urged Iran on Friday to accept a U.N. plan aimed at delaying its ability to build a nuclear weapon, as…

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• Saipan reels after deadly shooting

  World › 05:24 AM JST - 21st November

  The Pacific resort island of Saipan was reeling Friday from one of the most violent attacks in its history, when a gunman killed five people,…

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• Top S Korean model found hanged in Paris apartment

  World › 05:19 AM JST - 21st November

  A 20-year-old top South Korean model who was a fashion week regular in New York, Milan and Paris has been found hanged in her Paris…

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• Chicago terror plot ringleader gets 13-year prison term

  World › 05:18 AM JST - 21st November

  The ringleader of a group described by prosecutors as plotting terror attacks on Chicago's Sears Tower and FBI offices in hopes of sparking an anti-government…

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• Kidnapped Britons say Somali pirates may kill them

  World › 05:15 AM JST - 21st November

  A retired British couple snatched from their yacht by Somali pirates said in an interview broadcast Friday they fear they could be killed within a…

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• Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin

  World › 04:55 AM JST - 21st November

  A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial…

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