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Al-Qaeda centres bomb attack on normally quiet Iraq city

At least 12 people have been killed in the Iraqi city of Kut in southern Iraq.

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SRI LANKA: Amnesty says emergency rule must end

NEW YORK, 4 August 2010 (IRIN) - The decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka ended more than a year ago, but emergency powers are still in place, sending the wrong message, Amnesty International says.

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Indian visitors to Malaysia disappear into country

Malaysia has revoked its visa on arrival facility for Indian citizens.

The visa privilege was scrapped permanently by Malaysia's deputy prime minister, Muhyideein Yassin, who said 40,000 visitors from India had abused the facility.

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WEST AFRICA: Hail storms, record rains

The 2010 rainy season in West Africa has opened with hail storms in Guinea and the heaviest rain in 50 years in northern Chad. Floods have killed at least 80 people and destroyed homes, bridges, septic tanks, livestock, crops and food stocks; dams...

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