Iraq attacks
kill 72A wave of apparently coordinated bombings
and shootings rocked Iraq during a major Shiite religious
commemoration on Wednesday, killing at least 72 people and wounding
more than 250, many of them pilgrims.
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India assures US of economic vigor
US: India insisted Tuesday that its economy
would regain vigor and satisfy foreign investors as it fended off US
accusations of a worsening business climate ahead of high-level
talks. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday holds an
annual dialogue on the shape of the growing relationship,
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Vatican at loggerheads with ‘radical feminist’ US nuns
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican told a group of US
nuns rapped for defying Roman Catholic doctrine to toe the line on
Tuesday, but a meeting at the Holy See failed to end a public row
over their behaviour. In April, the Vatican accused the nuns of
“corporate dissent” from the Church's teachings against
homosexuality,
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