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| Many countries go to elections and the world does not even notice. Yet, rarely has a byelection generated the kind of international interest as the one that took place in Myanmar on April 1. And perhaps never before has the world hailed the election to less than 8 per cent of the total seats of a Pa
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| Rock music’s ‘Lord of Loud’ dead |
| Jim Marshall, dubbed the “Lord of Loud” for his pioneering work on guitar amplifiers used by some of the greatest names in rock music, has died aged 88.
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| Oops! Time runs out on a miracle |
| Facing a scandal over photographs of its leader wearing an enormously expensive watch, the Russian Orthodox Church worked a little miracle: it made the offending timepiec
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| Jail term for Merchant of Death |
| Viktor Bout, a Russian arms dealer caught in an undercover sting by US agents posing as Colombian guerrillas, has been sentenced to 25 years in jail by a judge in New York, p
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| America’s smallest town ‘sold’ |
| Billed as the smallest town in America, Buford, Wyoming, was sold at auction yesterday for $900,000 to an anonymous Vietnamese national.
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| Aung San Suu Kyi after her byelection victory in Yangon on April 2, 2012. (AP) |
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