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AP - A U.S. military patrol and Iraqi police discovered 23 bodies --
 many of them handcuffed and strangled -- in various parts of Baghdad,
 authorities said Wednesday, while bombings, gunfire and other violence
 claimed at least seven other lives.

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AP - Iran threatened the United States with "harm and pain" Wednesday
 for its role in hauling Tehran before the U.N. Security Council over
 its disputed nuclear program.

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AP - Security forces deployed to holy sites across India on Wednesday
 after terror bombings killed 20 people in Hinduism's holiest city,
 sparking anger among its residents and concern of possible widespread
 sectarian violence.

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AP - The threat of winter creating a second humanitarian disaster after
 the Oct. 8 earthquake that killed more than 80,000 people in northern
 Pakistan has been averted, a U.N. official declared Wednesday.

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AP - Thousands of women from villages and cities across patriarchal Asia
 took to the streets Wednesday for International Women's Day to press
 for freedom, equal rights and an end to discriminatory laws.

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AP - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva met on Wednesday with
 the mayor of London, whose police force has come under heavy criticism
 for killing an innocent Brazilian mistaken for a suicide bomber last
 year.

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AP - Jewish settlers are terrorizing Palestinians with impunity,
 attacking children on their way to school and destroying farmers' trees
 and crops, a U.N. expert on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict said in a
 report.

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AP - A small group of leftist rebels wearing ski masks and brandishing
 assault weapons renounced their guerrilla army's four-decade-old
 insurgency in a gesture the government touted ahead of Sunday's
 congressional elections.

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AP - Violence in Sudan's troubled Darfur region will spread if a U.N.
 peacekeeping mission replaces a beleaguered African Union force, a
 senior Sudanese government official warned Wednesday.

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Reuters - The sign outside Leopold cafe on Mumbai's Colaba Causeway has
 just received a makeover: it is bigger, bolder, and harder to miss amid
 the clutter of signs on the bustling road lined with shops and
 restaurants.

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Canadian Press - OTTAWA (CP) - A defiant federal ethics commissioner
 vowed to stay on the job Tuesday even as Stephen Harper admitted he
 tried to replace him immediately after he became prime minister.

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AFP - Iraq's trade ministry said it was considering resuming wheat
 imports from Australia, provided the trade was not handled by the
 Australian Wheat Board (AWB), the monopoly exporter.

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