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Breaking News Sun, 20 Feb 2011
Malaysia Airlines Malaysian plane makes emergency landing
NEW DELHI: Passengers of a Malaysia Airlines flight had a close shave on Sunday as one engine of their aircraft failed soon after take-off. Almost two hours after it departed from Delhi for Kuala Lump... (photo: Public Domain / Arpingstone) The Times Of India
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A young Bahraini joins anti-government protesters chant slogans at the Pearl roundabout in Manama, Bahrain, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011. Bahrain's opposition leaders gathered Sunday to examine offers for talks by Bahrain's  rulers after nearly a week of protests and deadly clashes that have sharply divided the strategic Gulf nation. Clinton says Bahrain must carry out political reforms now
| US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said overnight that Bahrain must end violence against anti-government protesters and enact reforms immediately. | Speaking on ABC's "This Week," she s... (photo: AP / Hassan Ammar) The Australian
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Islamist activists, left of the banner, face with pro-civilian supporters during a demonstration, Saturday Feb. 19, 2011 in Tunis. The Tunisian government and a long-banned Islamist party both denounced Saturday the grisly slaying of a Catholic priest. Thousands in anti-regime rally in Tunisia
| THOUSANDS of demonstrators rallied on the streets of Tunis overnight calling for the resignation of Mohamed Ghannouchi's transitional government. | Police helicopters circled overhead as demons... (photo: AP / Hassene Dridi) The Australian
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 This image provided by the US Naval Research Laboratory shows tropical cyclone Daman  (js1) Large swells likely as Cyclone Atu brushes past
| The latest cyclone to grow out of the Pacific is forecast to brush past New Zealand, creating a risk of high seas on the North Island's east coast. | Cyclone Atu formed on Saturday, true to its name... (photo: AP / US Navy) NZ Herald
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Toyo Ishii, 84, listens to questions during an interview with The Associated Press at her Tokyo home, July 29, 2006. Ishii, a former military nurse, went public in June this year with the first eyewitness account of the burials of corpses, bones and body part at two locations _ and evidence of other graves that could be linked to Japan's dreaded germ and biological warfare outfit, Unit 731. "We had to quickly bury the bones to hide them from the U.S. occupation forces," Ishii said. Japan Digs WWII Site Linked to Human Experiments
(AP) | TOKYO -- Japan is starting to excavate the site of a former medical school that may reveal grisly secrets from World War II. | The investigation begins Monday at the former school linked to Uni... (photo: AP / Itsuo Inouye) CBS News
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