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AFP – Twelve Muslim separatists and a soldier were killed in clashes in the southern Philippines when government forces foiled a rebel attack on a town, the military said Wednesday.
Read More: 13 killed in clash with Muslim rebels: military
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AP – Hundreds were feared dead Tuesday in the chilly waters of the Mediterranean Sea, days after an overcrowded wooden fishing boat packed with migrants seeking a better life in Europe capsized in stormy waters off the coast of Libya.
Read More: Hundreds of migrants feared drowned off Libya
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AP – A Dutch couple taken hostage Tuesday by armed tribesmen in Yemen said their kidnappers were treating them well, including offering them lunch and tea, after brazenly hijacking their car in the capital.
Read More: Dutch hostage in Yemen reports good treatment
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AP – Rio’s state government will build seven miles (11 kilometers) of concrete walls around some of the biggest slums in an effort to halt deforestation of the jungle surrounding the metropolis, officials said Tuesday.
Read More: Rio gov't building walls around slums
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AP – Pakistan’s Taliban chief claimed responsibility Tuesday for a deadly assault on a police academy, saying he wanted to retaliate for U.S. missile attacks on the militant bases on the border with Afghanistan. Baitullah Mehsud, who has a $5 million bounty on his head from the United States, also vowed to “amaze everyone in the world” with an attack on Washington or even the White House.
Read More: Pakistani Taliban threatens attack on White House
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AFP – Gavin Henson’s hopes of being selected for the British and Irish Lions’ tour of South Africa may have come to an end after he was ruled out for up to six weeks with an ankle injury.
Read More: Henson's Lions rugby hopes take a mauling
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AP – A major blackout that wreaked havoc during rush hour in Australia’s largest city has exposed a flaw in the city’s terrorism warning system, the government acknowledged Tuesday.
Read More: Sydney blackout exposes anti-terror network flaw
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AP – Key members of Israel’s new Cabinet:
Read More: A look at key members of Israel's new government
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Mediaweek.com – -Yesterday’s Winners:
Dancing With the Stars (ABC), Two and a Half Men (CBS), House (Fox), CSI: Miami (CBS)
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Playbill – Rock stars Tommy Shaw from STYX and Kevin Cronin from REO Speedwagon will make their Broadway debuts April 27 when they perform their new single, “Can’t Stop Rockin’,” immediately following the evening performance of Rock of Ages, the new musical at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre.
Read More: STYX and REO Speedwagon Stars Will Crash Broadway's 'Rock of Ages'
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AP – Walt Disney is going 3-D on a lot of future films and some from its past.
Read More: Disney does 3-D with `Toy Story,' `Beast' reissues
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E! Online – In her new flick, Miley Cyrus returns to an ochre-toned, sun-drenched Tennessee countryside, where her Miley Stewart/Hannah Montana character paints a henhouse and learns to appreciate the slow life.
Read More: Miley Cyrus: I Wanna Move Back to Tennessee
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AP – “Long Lost” (Dutton, 372 pages, $27.95), by Harlan Coben: Myron Bolitar, sports agent and accidental detective, has returned in what is perhaps Harlan Coben’s best-written and most suspenseful thriller yet. The story begins when Myron gets a call from Terese Collins, a long-lost love. “Come to Paris,” she says. She needs him, but she won’t say why.
Read More: Harlan Coben writes most suspenseful thriller yet
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AP – Leave it to Robert Downey Jr. to turn Sherlock Holmes into a wisecracking action hero who ends up handcuffed naked to a bed.
Read More: Downey gives Sherlock Holmes an action update
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Reuters – Former Destiny’s Child member Kelly Rowland has parted ways with Columbia Records after recording two solo albums for the label.
Read More: R&B singer Kelly Rowland splits with label
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AP – An agent for 33-year-old singer and actor Andy Hallett says the former cast member from the vampire TV series “Angel” has died of congestive heart disease.
Read More: 'Angel' actor dies at 33 of heart disease
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E! Online – Miley Cyrus isn’t the only one saying we probably won’t be seeing a sequel to the not-even-released yet Hannah Montana movie.
Read More: Hannah Montana Director Also Says Sequel Unlikely
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AP – The salmonella scare that prompted a blanket federal warning against eating pistachios may have erupted because contaminated raw nuts got mixed with roasted nuts during processing, the company at the center of the nationwide recall said Tuesday.
Read More: Pistachio company: Raw nuts may be bacteria source
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AP – Taking the blood thinner Plavix along with aspirin helped prevent strokes and heart attacks in people with a common heartbeat abnormality that puts them at high risk of these problems, doctors reported Tuesday.
Read More: Study: Plavix plus aspirin helps prevent strokes
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HealthDay – TUESDAY, March 31 (HealthDay News) — Cumulative exposure to radiation
from CT scans can increase the risk for cancer by as much as 12 percent,
Harvard University researchers report.
Read More: As CT Radiation Accumulates, Cancer Risk May Rise
(HealthDay)
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