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| Bush lines up $70-billion war bill |
| The Bush administration intends to seek about $70 billion in emergency funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan early next year, pushing total war costs close to $225 billion since the invasion of Iraq early last year, Pentagon and congressional officials said yesterday.
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| UK toys with forced marriage ban |
| Muslim schoolgirls will no longer be dragged back by relatives from Bradford or Manchester to Pakistan to be married off to ?uncles? twice their age, under tough new laws
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| Thaksin stays firm on deaths |
| Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra shed few tears today over the death of 78 Muslims in military custody as distraught mourners besieged an army base in the far south, de
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| Lauren Bacall (left) and Nicole Kidman at the
premiere of their new film Birth in New York. (Reuters) |
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