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18 killed as train jumps track in India
A crowded train sped through a railway station in central India, jumped the tracks and crashed into a signal cabin yesterday, killing 18 passengers and injuring about 100, authorities said.
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US forces kill 28 rebels holed up near Syria
US troops battled insurgents holed up in houses and driving explosives-laden vehicles in a second town near the Syrian border Sunday, killing 28 in an expansion of their two-day-old offensive chasingal-Qaeda
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Armed police burst into Palestinian parliament
Uneasy truce after clashes
Dozens of armed policemen burst into the Gaza branch of the Palestinian parliament yesterday to protest against the killing of one of their colleagues in clashes with Hamas, an AFP correspondent said.
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Cong sweeps Andhra civic election
The ruling Congress Party in Andhra Pradesh on Monday made a clean sweep of the civic elections bagging the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation.
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Iraqi tribunal to start Saddam trial on Oct 19
Iraq's Special Tribunal officially announced yesterday that ousted dictator Saddam Hussein would go on trial on October 19 for a Shia massacre, confirming a date announced by the government a month ago.
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S Korean concert stampede kills 11
Eleven people were trampled to death and around 60 injured in South Korea yesterday in a stampede at a pop concert in the southern city of Sangju, police said.
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Thousands gather to see annular eclipse
Thousands of people across Portugal and Spain donned protective eyeglasses yesterday to watch a rare and spectacular type of eclipse, which dimmed the Iberian peninsula beginning around 10 a.m.
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