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Pakistan
train derail, 45 dead
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MEHRABPUR, Pakistan: A Pakistan train packed with holiday travelers
slipped off the rails
overnight and crashed, killing at least 45 people and leaving more
than 100 injured, officials said on Wednesday.
Pakistan Railways ruled out
sabotage and said a piece of track appeared to have broken in the
extreme cold, sending the 17-carriage train hurtling over an
embankment outside Mehrabpur. Several carriages were crushed or torn
to shreds.
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Fuel seeps from
capsized tanker at Indonesian port
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JAKARTA: Fuel has begun seeping
from the engine of a small tanker that capsized at an Indonesian
port this week, but its hold remains secure, the port master said
Wednesday.
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South Korea
right-winger traitor, war fanatic–N. Korea
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SEOUL: North Korea’s state
media carried blistering criticism of a right-wing independent
candidate as South Koreans voted for a new president on Wednesday,
denouncing him as a “traitor and war fanatic”.
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S. Korea
president-elect to get full security
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SEOUL: The winner of South
Korea’s presidential election on Wednesday will be assigned a
special team of bodyguards and a bulletproof car as soon as his
victory is confirmed, the presidential office said.
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Floods kill 29 in
Malaysia, palm oil industry hit
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KUALA LUMPUR: The death toll in
Malaysia’s floods has risen to 29 with more than 34,000 people
evacuated, reports said Wednesday, as forecasters tipped more bad
weather in the coming days.
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Mbeki licking
wounds after humiliation by ANC
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POLOKWANE, South Africa: South
African President Thabo Mbeki was licking his wounds Wednesday after
being toppled by Jacob Zuma as the ruling ANC’s leader in a move
that threatens to usher in a turbulent new era.
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Muslims in
‘stoning of Satan’ ceremony on Saudi hajj
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MINA, Saudi Arabia: Around two
million Muslims moved into the holy Saudi city of Mina on Wednesday
for the symbolic stoning of the devil, one of the high points, but
also one of the most risky, of the annual hajj.
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US Senate approves
$70 billion in war funds
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WASHINGTON: The US Senate late
Tuesday approved a half-trillion dollar budget bill for 2008 that
includes $70 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, handing a
major victory to President George W. Bush.
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Iraq says Turkey
unlikely to extend flush out operation
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BAGHDAD: Iraq said on Wednesday
that it believed Ankara was unlikely to conduct an extended
operation inside northern Iraq to flush out Kurdish rebels who are
fighting for self-rule in southeastern Turkey.
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