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Malaysian PM to downsize cabinet
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is
expected to unveil a streamlined new cabinet early next week,
cutting back posts after unprecedented election losses, a report
said Thursday.
The Star daily cited sources as saying that
posts would be trimmed in line with the smaller government presence
in parliament, where it now has 140 lawmakers compared to 198 in the
outgoing administration.
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E. Timor leader names rebel who shot
him
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SYDNEY: East Timor’s President Jose Ramos-Horta has named the
rebel soldier who shot and seriously wounded him in an attack at his
home last month, an Australian newspaper said Thursday.
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Short people most prone
to jealousy, scientists say
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PARIS: Short people should pray for a return to the seventies’
fashion of stack heels, for the power of jealousy depends on how
tall you are, the British weekly New Scientist says.
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China hits back at US, says
Iraq war a disaster
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BEIJING: China on Thursday accused the United States of human rights
hypocrisy, as it branded the US invasion of Iraq the “greatest
humanitarian disaster” of the modern world.
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WORLDINBRIEF
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NEW YORK: The identity of the high-priced prostitute at the
center of the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal emerged Thursday after the
embattled crime-busting New York state governor declared that he
would resign.
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