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AP - Gunmen pulled factory workers off buses northeast of Baghdad and
 killed 47 of them, a provincial council member said.

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AP - A major Sunni Arab bloc Thursday suspended talks with Shiite and
 Kurdish parties on a new government after scores of Sunni mosques were
 attacked and dozens of bodies found in a wave of reprisal violence
 following the bombing of a revered Shiite shrine.

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AP - The concave, snow-covered roof of a large Moscow market collapsed
 early Thursday, killing at least 47 people and forcing rescuers to
 clear away concrete slabs and metal beams to reach possible survivors
 trapped in the wreckage, officials said.

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AP - A group of rescuers started sinking in the mud and had to radio for
 help while trying to extricate a body from a landslide that entombed a
 Philippine village -- one of several complications that forced the
 suspension of the search Thursday.

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The Christian Science Monitor - During one of the last days of
 presidential campaigning in Uganda - a country once heralded as a
 beacon of progress - riot police in pick-ups screech up to the main
 opposition party's final rally Monday and fire tear gas at hundreds of
 peaceful opposition supporters. "This is democracy and peace -
 teargas?" yells one man, choking on the bitter smoke.

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Reuters - The roof of a covered market in Moscow collapsed on Thursday,
 possibly under the weight of snow, killing at least 35 people and
 trapping others in the rubble, emergency services said.

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AP - Israeli troops killed five Palestinians, including three fugitive
 gunmen, and seriously wounded a sixth man during an arrest sweep in
 this militant stronghold.

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AP - Rescue workers were about 50 yards from the spot where they
 believed two of 65 trapped Mexican coal miners are located, but
 officials refused to speculate on whether there were still survivors
 three days after an underground gas explosion.

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Reuters - Christian youths burned the corpses of Muslims on Thursday on
 the streets of Onitsha in southeastern Nigeria, the city worst hit by
 religious riots that have killed at least 138 people across the country
 in five days.

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AP - The divided Koreas concluded Red Cross talks on Thursday without a
 concrete agreement on how to address the issue of South Korean
 prisoners of war and civilian abductees believed held in the communist
 North.

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Canadian Press - KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) - Canadian soldiers sent an
 Afghan boy with a massive tumour on his face to a cancer hospital in
 Pakistan early Thursday morning, where he will likely live out his
 final days in a little less pain.

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Reuters - Australia launched a new A$180 million ($133 million)
 advertising campaign on Thursday which seeks to attract international
 tourists by swearing at them.

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