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• Kuan Yew discharged from hospital, resting at home

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   | Monday - February 18th, 2013

  SINGAPORE: Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew has been discharged from hospital after being confined due to an [...]

• Divers scour Russian lake for meteorite fragments

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   | Sunday - February 17th, 2013

  MOSCOW: Divers scoured the bottom of a Russian lake yesterday for fragments of a meteorite that plunged to [...]

• Philippines hopes law will avert launder blacklisting

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   | Sunday - February 17th, 2013

  MANILA: The Philippines hopes to avoid being put on a blacklist of money-laundering havens after President Benigno Aquino [...]

• Asteroid whizzes safely past Earth

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   | Sunday - February 17th, 2013

  BOSTON: A closely tracked asteroid, about 150-feet wide, whizzed safely past Earth on Friday, the same day a [...]

• Mystery gold gifts for tsunami-wracked Japan port

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   | Sunday - February 17th, 2013

  TOKYO: A Japanese city devastated by the 2011 tsunami has received anonymous gifts of gold worth more than [...]

• Vatican’s chief exorcist thanks Pope Benedict XVI

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   | Sunday - February 17th, 2013

  ROME: The Vatican’s chief exorcist has thanked Pope Benedict XVI for opening the way to exorcisms, not only [...]

• Aceh villager almost lynched for suit over use of loudspeaker by mosque

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   | Sunday - February 17th, 2013

  JAKARTA: A septuagenarian was almost lynched by villagers when he refused to withdraw his summons against the authorities [...]

• Former Singapore PM Lee Kuan Yew in hospital

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   | Sunday - February 17th, 2013

  SINGAPORE: Former Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew is recovering in hospital after suffering from an irregular heartbeat, [...]