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                  as of Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:13:50 GMT

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AP - Bomb blasts and gunfire killed at least seven people, including two
 U.S. soldiers, in Baghdad and to the south Sunday as an extraordinary
 daylight curfew was lifted in three provinces following the bombing of
 a Shiite shrine and a wave of retribution against Sunnis.

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AP - Al-Qaida on Saturday vowed more attacks a day after an attempt to
 bomb the world's biggest oil processing complex showed the group still
 can strike inside Saudi Arabia despite the arrests of hundreds of
 suspects.

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AP - Terror convicts and hundreds of other inmates clashed with guards
 and took control of parts of a high-security prison in Afghanistan's
 capital, officials said Sunday.

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AP - A marine colonel urged Filipinos on Sunday to protest the removal
 of the marines commander in the wake of a failed coup plot that
 prompted the government to declare a state of emergency.

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AP - Iraqi police are stepping up the search for kidnapped U.S.
 journalist Jill Carroll but report no new developments as the deadline
 set by her captors for the U.S. to meet their demands draws near.

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AFP - The next England coach should be appointed by the Football
 Association as soon as possible the present incumbent Sven-Goran
 Eriksson has said.

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AP - A bomb exploded Sunday at a crowded bus station south of Baghdad,
 killing at least two people and injuring four, police said. Two U.S.
 soldiers and an Iraqi police officer were killed in other explosions.

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AP - Taking advantage of the chaos of a Carnival parade, thieves slipped
 into an art museum and stole paintings valued at tens of millions of
 dollars, even stripping visitors of cell phones, digital cameras and
 wallets before fleeing.

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AFP - Anglo-Dutch giant Shell, which is locked in a bitter legal battle
 over environmental damage in Nigeria's oil-rich southern Delta, is
 appealing against a hefty 1.5-billion-dollar (1.2-billion-euro) fine
 for pollution.

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AFP - Two men were pulled alive from the rubble of a collapsed
 five-storey building in the Bangladesh capital as rescuers scrambled to
 find survivors a day after at least 18 were killed and 45 injured.

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Canadian Press - QUEBEC (CP) - Raymond Boucher, the chairman of Quebec's
 liquor commission, resigned Friday as controversy surrounding the Crown
 corporation's policies grew.

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AFP - Australia has annnounced a temporary ban on the export of live
 cattle to Egypt while claims of cruelty in abattoirs there are
 investigated.

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