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Bush: US stands behind India in wake of attacks (AP)
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AP - President George W. Bush on Saturday pledged full U.S. support to India as it investigates the deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, saying the killers "will not have the final word."
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Japan should acknowledge 'comfort women' pain: MPs (AFP)
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AFP - Japan should acknowledge the importance of Second World War "comfort women" as a "painful and emotive" issue in South Korea, an influential committee of parliamentarians said Sunday.
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Pakistan U-turns on sending spy chief to India (AP)
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AP - Pakistan demanded evidence for Indian charges it was involved in the Mumbai attacks and reversed its decision to send its spy chief to aid a probe, muddying efforts to avert a crisis between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
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80 whales stranded in Australia, many feared dead (AP)
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AP - Officials rushed Sunday to reach about 80 whales stranded on a remote coast in southern Australia.
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All Blacks down England to seal rugby grand slam (AFP)
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AFP - New Zealand completed their second grand slam in three years and third overall with a 32-6 win over England at Twickenham.
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India terror begins with corpses on train platform (AP)
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AP - 9:21 p.m. Wednesday, Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus __ Two young men walk casually through Mumbai's main railway station, a worn Victorian hulk bustling with late commuters heading home, scurrying past small food stands and juice bars...
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Traditional tomb of Abraham stirs emotion (AP)
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AP - In the divided city of Hebron, Jews toss slips of paper with handwritten prayers into a room over the traditional burial place of Abraham. At the same site, Muslims raise their hands into the air invoking the name of Ibrahim. Both a...
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US training Iraqis to defeat deadly roadside bombs (AP)
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AP - Two Iraqi soldiers acting as insurgents hook up a cellular phone detonator to a 155mm artillery shell with a coiled red wire, bury the mock bomb in a pile of dirt next to a rusty electricity pole and then disappear down the street.
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Russian president visits Cold War ally Castro (AP)
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AP - Russia's president met with revolutionary icon Fidel Castro on Friday, discussing Guantanamo Bay and hopes for a multipolar world with Cuba's former leader during a tour of Latin America aimed at raising Moscow's presence in the reg...
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India ends Mumbai rampage after 60 hours, 195 dead (AP)
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AP - It took just 10 young men armed with rifles and grenades to terrorize this city of 18 million and turn its postcard-perfect icons into battlefields until security forces ended one of the deadliest attacks in India's history early Sa...
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80 whales stranded on rocks in Tasmania (AFP)
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AFP - About 80 pilot whales have been stranded on rocks on Tasmania's remote west coast just a week after 53 of the giant mammals beached themselves on the island and died, an official said Saturday.
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Death toll over 300 in Nigerian sectarian violence (AP)
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AP - Mobs burned homes, churches and mosques Saturday in a second day of riots, as the death toll rose to more than 300 in the worst sectarian violence in Africa's most populous nation in years.
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French locate black boxes after Airbus A320 crash (AP)
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AP - Search teams on Friday found the flight recorders from an Airbus A320 passenger jet that crashed off France's southern coast, killing two people and leaving five others missing and feared dead, officials said.
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Indian PM meets armed forces chiefs after Mumbai attacks (AFP)
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AFP - India's prime minister was Saturday meeting the chiefs of the country's army, navy, air force and intelligence services to discuss the Islamic militant attacks in Mumbai, his office said.
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Israelis mourn rabbi and wife slain in Mumbai (AP)
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AP - Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his wife Rivkah had no fear when they embarked on their mission to open a Jewish center in the Indian city of Mumbai, her brother said Saturday night as relatives in Israel prepared to bury the coup...
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