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Ex-Thai
PM Thaksin pleads not guilty
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BANGKOK: Deposed Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra pleaded not guilty
Wednesday to corruption charges in the first case assembled by
military-backed investigators to reach court.
Thaksin said little during the
20-minute hearing before the Supreme Court, which was packed with
hundreds of his supporters who filled the courtroom and spilled out
onto the steps outside.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Obama wins anew in
Mississippi primary
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BILOXI, Mississippi: Barack Obama
trounced Hillary Clinton in Mississippi’s Democratic primary
behind the huge support from African Americans as a nasty new race
row rocked their White House battle.
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Chinese police
fire tear gas on Tibetan monks
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BEIJING: Chinese police fired
tear gas to disperse a second day of protests in the Tibetan capital
of Lhasa by hundreds of Buddhist monks demanding the region’s
independence, Radio Free Asia reported Wednesday.
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Scientists find
‘master’ breast cancer gene
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PARIS: Geneticists have
identified a super gene that causes breast cancer to metastasize,
the deadly process by which the disease spreads to other organs,
according to a study released Wednesday.
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WORLD
INBRIEF
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s
government-friendly media has changed its tone after shocking
election gains by the opposition, aiming to win back readers
alienated by biased coverage, industry sources said Wednesday.
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