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  • Russia warning over Irish troops in Kosovo

    RUSSIA: Russia has warned that Irish troops deployed with the K-For force in Kosovo could be drawn into a legal quagmire if Kosovar Albanians declare independence from Serbia. It has also claimed that EU plans to send a police mission to an independent Kosovo without securing a new United Nations mandate would undermine international law. p
  • 52 dead as tornadoes ravage US

    A man inspects his wrecked house after tornadoes hit Layfayette, Tennessee, yesterday. Photograph: Josh Anderson/Reuters US: Tornadoes and thunderstorms shattered parts of the US south on Tuesday and yesterday, killing at least 52 people and injuring more than 150 in the deadliest such storms in nine years. p
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  • Beatles' TM guru Maharishi Yogi dies in Holland, aged 91

    HOLLAND: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the founder of the Transcendental Meditation (TM) movement who taught the Beatles to meditate, made "mantra" a household word in the 1970s and built a multimillion-dollar empire on a promise of inner harmony and world peace, died yesterday in the Dutch village of Vlodrop. He was believed to be 91. p
  • Mulroney embroiled in money scandal

    CANADA: Ask Canadians under 30 about the name Mulroney, and chances are they will think not of the long-serving former prime minister, Brian Mulroney, but of his son, Ben, host of TV show Canadian Idol. But that was before the elder Mulroney came storming back into the national spotlight in a scandal befitting prime-time television. p
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