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Italian police arrest 2 linked to Mumbai attacks
18 mins ago
Italian police on Saturday arrested two Pakistani men accused of providing logistical support for last year's terror attacks in Mumbai, officials said.
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Sri Lanka to release 136,000 Tamil war refugees
15 mins ago
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 country's civil war ended six months ago, a top official said Saturday.
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Sentence request for US woman in Italy murder case
19 mins ago
Prosecutors are expected to request life in prison for an American student and her former boyfriend accused of killing a young British woman in Italy.
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Afghan police are weak link in security force
67 mins ago
Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so American and other foreign troops can go home.
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Chavez praises Carlos the Jackal
1 hour 46 mins ago
Hugo Chavez has defended the alleged terrorist mastermind Carlos the Jackal, saying the Venezuelan imprisoned in France was an important "revolutionary fighter" who supported the cause of the Palestinians.
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China says 37 dead, 71 trapped in mine explosion
1 hour 56 mins ago
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 a mile under ground.
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Buddhists from 2 Koreas to hold joint ceremony
2 hours 53 mins ago
South Korean Buddhist monks headed to North Korea on Saturday for a joint ceremony with monks there, showing the countries continue civil exchange despite a bloody naval skirmish earlier this month.
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Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin
3 hours 15 mins ago
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 cloth of Jesus. Experts say the historian may be reading too much into the markings, and they stand by carbon-dating that points to the shroud being a medieval forgery.
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