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A roadside bomb has gone off on a busy Cairo street near the Nile-side Egyptian Foreign Ministry, killing two senior policemen.

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Defiant Egyptian president vows to stay in power

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Tariq Aziz, the international face of Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi regime, will not testify against the former dictator, his lawyer said today.

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Over 70 dead as Thai muslims launch attacks

Thai police shot and killed more than 70 machete-wielding militants who launched simultaneous pre-dawn raids on security outposts today, in the heaviest fighting yet in the troubled Muslim-dominated south, officials said.

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