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/ 29 December 2008
The death toll from a suicide car bombing at a polling station in northwest Pakistan has risen to 41, police said Monday.
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/ 29 December 2008
SA face their biggest challenge since readmission to international football 16 years ago when they host the Fifa Confederations Cup next June.
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/ 29 December 2008
More than 300 people believed to be illegal migrants are feared to have drowned off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
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/ 29 December 2008
A new generation of designers are putting the social element back into video games, using online networks such as Facebook.
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/ 29 December 2008
Even as Israel’s F16s were aiming their first salvoes at Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, questions were being asked at home and abroad.
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/ 29 December 2008
A racially tinged song entitled <i>Barack the Magic Negro</i> has become an issue in the battle for the leadership of the Republican party.
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/ 29 December 2008
Israeli warplanes pounded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip for a third consecutive day on Monday and prepared for a possible invasion after killing 307.
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/ 29 December 2008
The mountainous region in north-eastern Ethiopia was ravaged by the border conflict that left about 80 000 dead between 1998 and 2000.
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/ 28 December 2008
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday he had asked his fighters to be on alert for any possible Israeli attack on Lebanon.
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/ 28 December 2008
The UN Security Council called early on Sunday for an immediate end to all violence in Gaza after the death toll climbed past 270.