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Thai police fire tear gas at protesters, 116 injured
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BANGKOK: Thai police fired tear gas Tuesday to try to disperse
antigovernment protesters blocking parliament, injuring 116 people
as months of political turmoil boiled over, police
and medics said.
Twenty-one people suffered se-rious injuries, a
medical official said, as police tried to disperse several thousand
protesters surrounding parliament who tried to stop the first policy
speech by new Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat.
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China declines to say how many kids sick in milk scandal
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HOHHOT, China: China on Tuesday declined to release updated figures
revealing just how many children have been affected by the tainted
milk scandal, as it insisted it was working hard to boost
confidence.
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Research on AIDS virus, cancer wins Nobel Prize
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STOCKHOLM: French and German scientists credited with the discovery
of the viruses behind AIDS and cervical cancer won Monday the Nobel
Medicine Prize, the first of the prestigious awards to be announced
this year.
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‘Obama,’ ‘bin Laden’ lose out in Brazilian polls
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BRASILIA: Barack Obama, bin Laden, Zidane and Father Christmas all
failed in bids to win local elections held in Brazil on the weekend,
officials here said.
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China cancels, postpones military exchanges with US
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: China has canceled or postponed several military
exchanges with the United States in protest against a proposed
$6.5-billion arms sale to Taiwan, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.
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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said Tuesday
he still had enough support to topple the government and is
deliberating over how to carry out his delayed plan to seize power.
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