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| Troops patrol Quetta, panic kills 13 |
| Troops enforced a curfew in the Pakistani city of Quetta today as minority Shias reacted angrily to a sectarian attack on a religious procession that killed 44 people.
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| Malay PM calls snap polls |
| Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi called a snap election today that would pit his four-month-old government against a conservative Islamic opposition.
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| Qaida denies role in attacks |
| A letter purporting to come from Osama bin Laden’s al Qaida network denied any role in yesterday’s anti-Shia explosions in Iraq and blamed the attacks that killed 185 people
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| Harvard team defies Bush stem cell ban |
| Scientists at Harvard University announced today they had created 17 batches of stem cells from human embryos, in defiance of attempts by President George W. Bush to limit su
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| A soldier (right) checks the documents of a motorcyclist during the curfew in Quetta. (AFP) |
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