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Indian parents get life for killing teen, butler

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<b>NEW DELHI: A court sentenced two married dentists to life in prison Tuesday for killing their 14-year-old daughter and their housekeeper, resolving a 5-year-old case that dominated headlines and polarized Indians.</b><br />
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Rajesh and Nupur Talwar, from the New Delhi suburb of Noida, had reportedly broken down in tears when they were convicted Monday and vowed to appeal the verdict.<br />
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Defense lawyer Rebecca John said after Tuesday’s sentencing that the case against the Talwar’s, based largely on circumstantial evidence, amounted to a "witch hunt" and said "there has been a serious miscarriage of justice in this case.<br />
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"The couple came under suspicion soon after their daughter, Aarushi, was found dead in her bedroom, her throat slit with surgical precision. Police initially named the Talwar’s missing Nepali housekeeper as the prime suspect, until his lifeless body was found a day later on a terrace above Aarushi’s room.<br />
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The double-murder became one of the most closely-watched whodunits in recent memory in India, with dramatic turns by police and prosecutors seizing national headlines and launching debates over details of the case.<br />
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Prosecutors for the Central Bureau of Investigation had asked for the death penalty.<br />
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"Such crime comes under the rarest of rare cases," prosecutor Naresh Yadav said. "So they should be awarded maximum punishment.<br />
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"The investigation determined both victims had been hit with a golf club and later had their throats slit.<br />
Police offered several possible motives in prosecuting the parents, including an honor killing.<br />
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Several other suspects had been questioned by police. After the case stalled, the Talwar’s in 2011 demanded a fresh investigation.<br />
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The couple was also sentenced to an additional five years in prison for destruction of evidence. (AP)</div>

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A Minute With: Sarah Silverman on standup success, network TV failure

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<b>LOS ANGELES: American comedian Sarah Silverman has been called profane, offensive, a provocateur and the funniest woman alive.</b><br />
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Silverman, 42, fond of ironic jokes that often play on race, religion and rape, will star in her own standup comedy special, "We Are Miracles," on HBO on Saturday.<br />
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Silverman, who also starred in her own cable series, "The Sarah Silverman Program" from 2007-2010 and works as a liberal political activist, spoke with Reuters about her brand of humor and why she is not cut out for network television.<br />
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Q: Why did you choose a venue that could only seat 39 people for "We Are Miracles?"<br />
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A: I thought it'd be cool to make a special that would feel like you were part of a very small, intimate crowd. I guess it's the Heisenberg principle that you can't ever purely observe something purely because ... by being there you're changing it.<br />
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Q: Can "intimate" ever be too small for standup comedy?<br />
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A: I very confidently decided to do this and then I went on tour and did a lot of big rooms and felt the laughter washing over me and went, "(Expletive!) What have I done?" But it felt like it was cool. ... You still want the crowd to be able to be a mob in that they work as one piece in lots of ways. You still hear individual laughs. You hear jokes hitting people differently.<br />
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Q: How has your standup act changed since your 2005 theatrically released special "Jesus Is Magic?"<br />
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A: I was a little more of a character than myself. I was playing this very ignorant, arrogant girl-woman who said the opposite of what I really felt in real life. There laid the kind of shock-value of it. I love that special, but it's different from who I am now. I'm years and many therapy sessions and life experiences later.<br />
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Q: There has always been a strong undercurrent in your humor that life is rather insignificant.<br />
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A: As you get older, mortality starts to creep in. You have friends that start dying, I mean, not of old age. It's like you get aches and pains and you're not invincible and you can't do acid while you have strep throat and stay out until seven in the morning like you could when you were 20. Religion is something that I'm fascinated by because grownups are involved, and it just seems so bizarre to me.<br />
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Q: Your comedy pilot "Susan 313" was recently turned down by NBC. Do you believe your humor can work on network TV?<br />
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A: No, I don't. I think they did the right thing. I saw a lot of things wrong with the pilot.<br />
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It's not that I need to be dirty. I remember talking to the head of NBC (Robert Greenblatt) and he had just come from (premium cable network) Showtime, and he was like, 'I want to make a Showtime show for NBC.' I think he really did at that time, and I told him, 'It's not like I want to say (expletive) on network TV.' I just want to be able to be far out and not have network executives worry that people in Peoria might not be interested. People in Peoria are interested in far-out (expletive).<br />
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Q: Comedy is often a pass/fail profession, either the audience laughs or they don't. How do you manage that pressure?<br />
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A: It's daunting, but I realized something that I think is really important to realize as a comedian: it's like comedy dies in the second-guessing. Even though there are stakes, and if you go into that wormhole you can terrify yourself into total paralysis. But there's no hope of succeeding if you don't throw all of that away and just do what you think is funny and don't worry about what the audience wants or doesn't want.<br />
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To me, that's the downfall of network television. It's all these old grownups trying to second-guess what a 14-year-old boy wants to watch. It's stupid. You don't want a 14-year-old to dictate what they want to see. They don't know what they want to see yet. That's your job to show them what's cool. And there's no confidence. There's so much money involved in network television and the stakes are so high compared to how irrelevant they have become because they (viewers) have 600 other channels that can do whatever the (expletive) they want. ... Network channels should basically be live sports and live call-in voting talent shows because to have real success you have to take a chance, and they don't have that kind of leeway. They have so much at stake and so little relevance compared to the stakes..--REUTERS
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Altered landscape for Sony, Microsoft consoles

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<b>NEW YORK: Remember a time before "Angry Birds," the iPad and the iPhone? No?</b><br />
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When Sony and Microsoft last came out with new video game consoles — seven and eight years ago, respectively, the companies touted the machines' high-definition graphics, powerful processors and ability to play DVDs, and in Sony's case, Blu-ray discs.<br />
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But a lot has changed since then. People are playing games on a broader array of devices than ever before, and they have more options to stream movies, TV shows and music. Connecting with friends online is the norm, not an obscure activity for young people.<br />
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That's the world the Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One enter. The PlayStation 4 goes on sale Friday and the Xbox One will be released next week. As Sony and Microsoft once again spar this holiday season over who has the brawnier machine and more enticing online features, hardcore gamers are all but certain to fall for the shiny, powerful new consoles. But what's less clear is how the gadgets will compete for the attention of people who now look to their tablets, smartphones and other devices for entertainment.<br />
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"It's turning out that these consoles, in fighting each other for the love of the hardcore gamer, run the risk of failing to capture people in their homes," says James McQuivey, an analyst with Forrester Research.<br />
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Both Microsoft and Sony position their gaming systems as entertainment devices meant to take over the living room. The Xbox 360 started streaming movies from Netflix in 2008 and the PlayStation 3, which already served as a Blu-ray player, soon followed, along with a bevy of other entertainment options. Experts wondered whether gaming systems would soon replace cable set-top boxes.<br />
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Not so fast, was the reply from a host of other gadget makers. Along came Google's Chromecast, the Roku player, Apple TV and, of course, a slew of tablets. There are many ways to stream movies, TV and music into the home now. In that sense, the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 are no longer in a traditional, head-to-head battle.<br />
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While game console sales have been falling in the U.S., the worldwide video game market is growing, helped by mobile and online games and downloadable console games. Those sales are more than making up for a declining demand for game discs. Gartner Inc. expects the total video game market to hit $93.3 billion this year, up from $78.9 billion in 2012. The research firm sees the market rising to $111 billion by 2015.<br />
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Both new gaming systems are expected to be in brisk demand around the holidays. Sony expects to sell 5 million units of the PlayStation 4 by the end of its fiscal year in March. The PlayStation 3, in comparison, sold 3.5 million units in that time period seven years ago. Microsoft declined to offer a sales outlook for the Xbox One through the holidays, but demand should be comparable, says Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter. He expects 3 million Xbox Ones to be sold through December and 4.5 million through March.<br />
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Why does the PlayStation get a slight edge? Price could be one reason. The Xbox One, which includes an updated Kinect motion sensor, will cost $500, which is $100 more than the PlayStation 4. In contrast, the PlayStation 3 went on sale at $500 or $600 depending on the model in November 2006 while the Xbox 360 cost $400. Most new game software costs $60.<br />
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Dan Perkins, a gamer who's on the fence about which console to buy, says the "price is certainly a factor" nudging him toward a PS4 purchase — even though he was previously an Xbox man.<br />
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"I bought the Xbox 360 primarily because I preferred the titles it offered to the PS3. A major contributor to this decision was the 'Mass Effect' trilogy, which was initially unavailable on the PS3 at the time of my purchase," says Perkins, 40, a librarian from Syracuse, N.Y. "Neither platform has the edge on games in my opinion," he says. "In the end though, a big factor will be which system my friends adopt."<br />
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The friend factor is why Pedro Amador-Gates decided to stick with the Xbox. The 37-year-old first-time father says he did consider switching, but the PlayStation didn't have a chance. He likes his interface, his username is already set up and his gaming achievements will carry over to the new machine.<br />
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"Ninety percent is because I am already established in the Xbox community," he says.<br />
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Then again, neither the Xbox One nor the PlayStation 4 is backward compatible, meaning the machines don't play games that were made for their predecessors. That gives players a clean slate to start with a whole new set of games.<br />
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"Everyone is starting over to some extent," Stein says.<br />
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The console makers' challenge will be to ensure that everyone does start over, instead of sticking with their own game console or perhaps buying an iPad instead of a new game machine. Tony Bartel, the president of the world's largest videogame retailer, GameStop, expects the new consoles will be in "high demand and short supply" due to a huge pent-up demand for new gaming. After all, unless they bought the Wii U last year, people have been playing the same consoles since before the iPhone came out.<br />
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"There's tremendous demand for innovation," Bartel says.<br />
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Given the choice between an iPad and a PlayStation 4, Sony believes its consoles have an advantage during the holiday shopping season.<br />
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"One purchase offers something that everyone in the family can enjoy together," says Andrew House, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment. "Whereas the other is a single-person experience." (Reuters)<br />
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Bolt, Fraser-Pryce named as IAAF athletes of year

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<b>MONACO: Jamaican sprint duo Usain Bolt and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce were on Saturday named as the IAAF's male and female World Athletes of the Year for 2013.</b><br />
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The 27-year-old Bolt, who also won the award in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2012, successfully defended both his 100 and 200m titles at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow this summer, winning the latter in a 2013 world-leading time of 19.66 sec.<br />
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He concluded his world championships by anchoring a Jamaican quartet to the gold medals in the 4x100m relay.<br />
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Bolt also won 10 out of his 11 100m races (including heats), and was unbeaten in his five races over 200m.<br />
He beat off strong competition from British distance runner Mo Farah, who followed up on his 5,000-10,000m double at the London Olympics with two golds at the Moscow worlds.<br />
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"Wow..another IAAF athlete of year award. I'm beyond honoured...Jamaica this one is for you guys," tweeted Bolt.<br />
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Fraser-Pryce, 26, regained her 100m title at those world champs, her winning time of 10.71sec the fastest of the year.<br />
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She also clocked the fastest 200m time of the year (22.13) at the Jamaican championships in June and went on to win world gold in Moscow.<br />
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Like her compatriot Bolt, she also anchored the Jamaican 4x100m team to victory, a national record and the second fastest time in history.<br />
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Both athletes received a prize of $100,000.<br />
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The sole consolation for Farah was that his coach Alberto Salazar won the IAAF's coaching achievement award.<br />
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The Cuban-born American has guided the career of Farah as the Somali-born Briton stormed to a famous distance double-double. (AFP)</div>

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Damascus bombs, mortar fire kill three: state media

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<b>DAMASCUS: Twin bombings and mortar fire killed three people and wounded 22 near the Syrian capital's famed Ummayad mosque on Thursday, state news agency SANA reported.</b><br />
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"Three people were killed and 22 wounded in terrorist attacks with mortar rounds and the explosion of two bombs," SANA said, citing police officials.<br />
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The attacks took place on Mardam Bek Street and in the Kalassa district, near the outskirts of the historic mosque and the bustling Hamidiyeh market.<br />
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Rebels in neighbourhoods on the outskirts of Damascus have regularly fired rockets and mortar rounds into the centre of the city.<br />
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In recent weeks, the attacks have caused increasing numbers of casualties, with four children and a man killed on Monday when a shell hit a school bus in the Bab Sharqi neighbourhood.<br />
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29 killed in South Africa bus accident

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<b>JOHANNESBURG: A bus collision in South Africa late Monday killed 29 people and severely injured 11 others, on a road notorious for deadly accidents, a government spokesman said.</b><br />
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"The number is now 29," said Mpumalanga province safety department spokesman Joseph Mabuza, updating an earlier tally of 26 dead.<br />
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The bus collided with a truck near the town Kwaggafontein 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of the capital Pretoria.<br />
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Three of the injured had died in hospital, while eight others were still critical and another 12 slightly hurt.<br />
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The bus was traveling from Pretoria when it collided with a truck which had swerved out of its lane, said Mabuza.<br />
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"The truck driver was trying to avoid a stationary vehicle and collided with the oncoming bus," he told AFP.<br />
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"We are not sure if the truck driver and the bus driver survived the accident," he added.<br />
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The injured were taken to hospital in nearby KwaMhlangu.<br />
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The bus company's name was not immediately available.<br />
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Known as the Moloto road for one of the towns along its way, the route is notorious for deadly collisions.<br />
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Around 50,000 people commute to work in Pretoria daily along the narrow and potholed route, using 635 buses.<br />
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Transport vehicles using the road are often overloaded and unroadworthy while drivers are prone to speeding.<br />
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Last month 18 people were injured in a collision on the route, while news reports about deadly accidents are frequent.<br />
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Last year religious leaders held a prayer service for the safety of the road. A radio station also dedicated a day to profile its dangers during which a provincial minister committed to improve conditions.<br />
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In September 27 people died when a heavy-duty truck crashed into traffic near eastern city Durban, while 24 were killed when a double-decker bus crashed into a mountainous pass near Cape Town in March.<br />
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<b>(AFP)</b></div>

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13 dead in Indonesian army helicopter crash: military

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<b>JAKARTA: Thirteen people were killed Saturday when an Indonesian army helicopter carrying construction workers crashed in the jungles </b><b>of Borneo as it came in to land, an official said.</b></div>
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<b>"Thirteen people died in the crash while the rest suffered burn injuries," military spokesman Iskandar Sitompul told AFP. There were 21 people on board, he said.</b></div>
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<b>Earlier reports said nine people had been injured in the crash, in the Malinau district of North Kalimantan province in the Indonesian part of Borneo island.</b></div>
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<b>Sitompul said earlier that the aircraft had burst into flames when it crashed.</b></div>
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<b>The Russian-made, Mi-17 aircraft was carrying eight crew, who were military personnel, 13 civilian construction workers and materials weighing 500 kilos (1,100 pounds).</b></div>
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<b>San Francisco: Google ended nearly two weeks of speculation about an enormous floating barge in San Francisco Bay, saying it would be “an interactive space” for learning about technology.<span id="more-294674"></span></b><br />
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A Google spokesperson dismissed wild conjecture about the barge, which was spotted last month by the technology news blog CNET, which spurred rumors by calling it a “secret project.”</div>
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Early reports said it might be a floating data center, and others said the four-story-tall structure might be a party space.</div>
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“A floating data center? A wild party boat? A barge housing the last remaining dinosaur?” the spokesperson said in the statement emailed to AFP.</div>
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“Sadly, none of the above. Although it’s still early days and things may change, we’re exploring using the barge as an interactive space where people can learn about new technology.”</div>
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Nicaraguas dengue death toll rises to 16

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The death is the second in less than 24 hours due to dengue, health authorities reported. The disease has infected some 5,795 people in Nicaragua this year.<br />
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The boy was from Matagalpa, located 127 kilometers (79 miles) north of Managua, said presidential spokeswoman and first lady Rosario Murillo.<br />
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A total of 1,128 people have been hospitalized suspected of having dengue, with 43 of the instances confirmed by laboratories and 36 serious cases, according to official reports.<br />
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Murillo also announced the arrival of specialists from Cuba to assess whether a product, which she did not identify but that has been used in other countries, could be used in Nicaragua.<br />
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She also said she regretted that campaigns to eliminate mosquitos in combination with modern science and technology hadn't made a bigger dent in fighting the disease or ending suffering.<br />
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Dengue results in fever, muscle and joint ache.<br />
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The disease is caused by four strains of virus that are spread by the mosquito Aedes aegypti.<br />
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There is no vaccine, so medical authorities in the region, where poverty is widespread, have been trying to stamp it out by focusing on mosquito control.<br />
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The illness can be fatal, developing into hemorrhagic fever, which can lead to shock and internal bleeding.<br />
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<b>CAIRO: The three judges presiding in the trial of Muslim Brotherhood chief Mohamed Badie and his aides withdrew from the proceedings at the start of a session on Tuesday.</b><br />
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Prior to their decision to step down the judges ordered that the defendants continue to be held in custody, an AFP correspondent in the court said.<br />
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Badie and his two deputies, Khairat al-Shater and Rashad al-Bayoumi, face charges related to the deaths of protesters who stormed the Brotherhood's Cairo headquarters on June 30.<br />
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<b>LIMA: Two pre-Columbian mummies more than a thousand years old were found in a pre-Incan cemetery in a suburb of Lima, archeologists said.</b><br />
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The first signs of the tomb were found five days ago, but the process of unearthing the mummies of an adult and child took time.<br />
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The Pacific Ocean and Lima's concrete buildings are visible from part of the huaca -- a Quechua word for religious sites -- that towers more than 20 meters (66 feet) high.<br />
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In the tomb, researchers also found seven vessels with feline designs used to drink a matte tea concoction, 12 fabric bags and the remains of three guinea pigs.<br />
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Dozens of journalists thronged to the site for a chance to catch a glimpse.<br />
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Project director Isabel Flores said archeologists have yet to search through 40 percent of the Huaca Pucllana, built during the pre-Hispanic Wari culture.<br />
There are about 350 huacas in Peru's capital region, interspersed among buildings and homes, hinting Lima's pre-Hispanic ancestors. (AFP)</div>

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<b>TEHRAN: The Iranian authorities on Saturday hanged 16 "rebels" following overnight clashes in which 14 border guards were killed on the frontier with Pakistan, a judicial official said.</b><br />
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<b>WASHINGTON: Seeking to improve a rocky relationship, President Barack Obama and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday pledged cooperation on the security issues that have strained ties between their nations. But the sources of the long-standing tensions did briefly bubble to the surface.</b></div>
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Speaking alongside Obama at the White House, Sharif said he raised the issue of American drone strikes during their two-hour meeting, ``emphasizing the need for an end to such strikes.'' For his part, Obama made no mention of drones, which have stoked widespread resentment in Pakistan where many believe the targeted strikes by the armed unmanned aircraft kill large numbers of civilians.</div>
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Despite the Pakistani concerns, the U.S. has shown no indication it is willing to abandon the attacks, even though the number has dropped in the past couple of years.</div>
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Obama acknowledged that there will always be some tension between the U.S. and Pakistan, but said he and Sharif agreed to build a relationship based on mutual respect.</div>
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``It's a challenge. It's not easy,'' he said. ``We committed to working together and making sure that rather than this being a source of tension between our two countries, it can be a source of strength.''</div>
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Washington has warmly welcomed Sharif, who arrived on Sunday for his first visit to the U.S. capital since taking office.</div>
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He dined with Secretary of State John Kerry and other top U.S. officials and was hosted at a breakfast meeting Wednesday at Vice President Joe Biden's residence.</div>
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A military honor guard also lined the driveway leading to the West Wing of the White House as Sharif arrived for his meeting with Obama.</div>
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Beyond drones, the other hot-button issues on the agenda for Wednesday's meeting included plans for winding down the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and the longstanding tensions between India and Pakistan.</div>
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Both leaders agreed on the need for a stable and secure Afghanistan after combat missions formally conclude there at the end of next year.</div>
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``Billions of dollars have been spent on an arms race in response to these tensions,'' Obama said.</div>
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Sharif said he was committed to cooperation with India, including on Kashmir. The Pakistani leader also invited Obama to visit Pakistan, but the U.S. president did not publicly accept the offer.</div>
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Blast, clashes kill at least 16 soldiers near Damascus

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<b>BEIRUT: At least 16 soldiers were killed in a car bomb attack and fighting that followed between Syrian government forces and rebels near Damascus on Saturday, a monitoring group said.</b></div>
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Verizon can supply HTC One Georgia home boy this season on Winter

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<b>Washington ,USA: America carrier Verizon can launch recently proclaimed HTC’s flagship phablet HTC One soap this season. </b><br />
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<b>HTC simply undraped the One soap and same carriers would announce once they’d provide the phablet to customers. </b><br />
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<b>Verizon is that the initial U.S. carrier to verify it'll carry the five.9-inch smartphone. In quite the role reversal, Verizon is that the initial U.S. carrier to verify that it'll provide the HTC One soap to its customers. </b><br />
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<b>Verizon was the sole major U.S. carrier to sit down out of the launch of the HTC One. As the smartphone got additional fashionable, Verizon customers urged the carrier to supply the all-aluminum telephone set. </b><br />
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<b>Verizon finally gave in to its customer’s requests and began marketing the device in August. The carrier has currently proclaimed via its Twitter page that the HTC One soap are going to be returning to its network “this season.” </b><br />
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<b>Verizon has not discharged any specifics and it’s unclear whether or not it'll provide each the 16GB and 32GB choices. The HTC One soap boasts a five.9-inch show with a resolution of 1080 x 1920 and ships with humanoid four.3 jelly egg and HTC Sense five.5. </b><br />
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<b>It uses a one.7GHz quad-core Qualcomm flower 600 processor and 2GB of RAM to stay things flowing swimmingly. HTC can provide the One soap in 2 storage capacities, 16GB and 32GB and, not like the HTC One, the One soap includes a microSD slot which will enable users to extend their storage. </b><br />
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<b>which will are available handy particularly once mistreatment the HTC UltraPixel rear camera, that options an obsessive HTC ImageChip, BSI sensor, sensible Flash, and talent to record Full HD 1080p video. </b><br />
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<b>The front-facing camera could be a a pair of.1-megapixel shooter that may additionally record 1080p video. </b><br />
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<b>Its wireless property choices embrace 4G LTE radio, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth four.0 autoimmune disorder (low energy), GPS and NFC. </b><br />
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<b>The phablet also will embrace a fingerprint scanner on its rear, which is able to enable users to unlock the device and launch totally different applications by assignment a finger to every. </b><br />
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<b>Similar to the HTC One, the One soap can ship with HTC Boom Sound, that uses twin front-facing stereo speakers with inbuilt amplifiers to produce what some reviewers claim is that the best sound expertise on any smartphone. HTC ships the One soap with an oversized and non-removable three,300 mAh battery. </b><br />
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<b>We’ll have to be compelled to wait to listen to a selected unleash date back Verizon, however it’s nice to understand that it’s not taking constant stance it took with the HTC One and customers will breathe a sigh of relief knowing that the new HTC phablet is certainly returning.</b><br />
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<b>PARIS: France's safety watchdog on Tuesday said it was standing by existing recommendations for mobile phones, wifi and relay antennas, saying their emissions had "no demonstrated impact" on health.</b><br />
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<b>BHOPAL: More than 60 people were killed while over 100 injured in a stampede at Ratangarh temple in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh on Sunday morning.</b></div>
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<b>Washington: The White House and Republicans painstakingly edged towards a deal Friday to stave off a disastrous US debt default and to end a partial government shutdown now sure to hit the two-week mark.<span id="more-288887"></span>
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President Barack Obama met face-to-face with Republican senators and spoke by phone with Republican House Speaker John Boehner, as subordinates haggled over the terms of an eventual truce to a bitter standoff.</div>
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“We are obviously in a better place than we were a few days ago in terms of the constructive approach we have seen,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said.</div>
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“But there is not an agreement.”</div>
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Amid rising optimism for a deal, and multiple tracks of dialogue, the main principles of a compromise emerged in public statements from both sides.</div>
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It will include a temporary, or more permanent, extension to US borrowing authority — without which Washington could begin to default on its obligations for the first time in history after October 17.</div>
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The government, shuttered since October 1, will be fully reopened, possibly on an interim basis, and there will be some kind of commitment from both sides to work towards an elusive deal to tackle the deficit, rein in spending and possibly to reform social programs and some aspects of the tax code.</div>
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Late in the day, Obama and Boehner, longtime foes who have often struggled to close deals, had what both sides said was a constructive conversation.</div>
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But there were signs that the White House was driving a hard bargain, as spokesman Jay Carney said that a rise in the debt ceiling could not be linked to long-term fiscal talks with Republicans, because it could set up repeated threats of default in the coming months.</div>
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The White House said earlier in the week that it would be open to a six-week extension of the debt ceiling after October 17.</div>
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But, perhaps sensing that it now has the upper hand in the fight, it now appears to be looking for an extension of borrowing authority from the current $16.7 trillion level for a longer duration.</div>
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“It is still acceptable as a bare minimum, sure,” Carney said.</div>
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One possible compromise plan is being offered by Republican Senator Susan Collins.</div>
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The measure would raise borrowing authority for up to a year, fund the government and repeal a tax on medical devices introduced under Obama’s health care law — as an incentive to get conservative Republicans on board.</div>
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Significantly, Carney did not rule out ending the medical devices tax — as long as its revenue could be found from elsewhere.</div>
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Such a solution would be somewhat of a facesaver for Republicans who entered the showdown determined to leverage the need to raise the debt ceiling as a way to defund or delay Obamacare.</div>
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Republicans from the lower house have offered to talk to Obama about a short-term resolution to fund the government, and then to move to long term budget and fiscal talks.</div>
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But the president insists he will not negotiate until both the debt ceiling is raised and the government is reopened.</div>
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Republican senators emerged from the White House talks into a rainstorm, and told reporters they were optimistic.</div>
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Arizona Senator Jeff Flake said there had been a “good talk” but no deal was reached.</div>
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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said he was “confident that in the next 24 to 48 hours the House will produce a continuing resolution that will allow the government to be open in total.”</div>
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Senator Mike Johanns added: “everybody is talking to everybody now, and I’m encouraged by that.”</div>
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But Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid signaled that Democrats were driving a hard bargain.</div>
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The Senate will on Saturday vote on a 15-month extension of the debt ceiling, to take the issue off the table until after the mid-term congressional elections next year.</div>
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While the measure is unlikely to become law because it needs House support, it could provide a template for an eventual solution in the event of a longer term fiscal deal between Obama and Republicans.</div>
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Hopes for a deal spurred a rally in Asian stocks overnight and Wall Street followed the trend into positive territory in early trade.</div>
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished up 111.04 (0.73 percent) to 15,237.11.</div>
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If the US debt ceiling is not raised by October 17, the Treasury would run out of money and could begin defaulting on US obligations for the first time in history, with likely dire consequences for the world economy.</div>
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New signs of Republican flexibility may have been spurred by devastating polling numbers showing their party brand badly hurt by the political showdown.</div>
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An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll showed 53 percent of those asked blamed Republicans for the government shutdown and only 31 percent pinned the blame on Obama.</div>
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G20 finance ministers meeting in Washington meanwhile demanded urgent action.</div>
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“The US needs to take urgent action to address short-term fiscal uncertainties,” the group of leading economies said in a statement.</div>
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<b>ICHAPURAM/BHUBANESWAR: Rain and wind lashed India's east coast on Saturday, forcing more than 400,000 people to flee to storm shelters as one of the country's largest cyclones closed in, threatening to cut a wide swathe of devastation through farmland and fishing hamlets. </b><br />
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Filling most of the Bay of Bengal, Cyclone Phailin was about 200 km (124 miles) offshore by noon on Saturday, satellite images showed, and was expected to hit land by nightfall.<br />
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It was on the verge of becoming a "super cyclone", and was expected to affect 12 million people, officials said. <br />
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"This is one of the largest evacuations undertaken in India," said Shashidhar Reddy, vice chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority, who estimated that more than 440,000 people had been evacuated. <br />
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In Donkuru, a fishing village in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh that is expected to catch the eye of the storm, people said they hesitated to leave because they had small children, despite buses provided by the authorities to take them away. <br />
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Amid howling winds, a group huddled at a bus stop waiting for a ride out of town while the wind snapped tree branches like toothpicks and the rain hammered down. <br />
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"We're waiting for the bus, but it's not coming," said L. Ram, an anxious fisherman. Nearby, a woman cradled her one-and-a-half year old son in one arm and struggled with a plastic bag filled with clothes on the other. <br />
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"I have a small child, so I thought, how will I leave?" asked Achamma, 25, as she clutched on to the boy, Ganesh. At the coastal front of the village, roll after roll after roll of power packed waves crashed onto the beach.<br />
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In a statement, the India Meteorological Department said Phailin was packing winds of between 210 kph (130 mph) and 220 kph (137 mph) and was expected to cause a 3.4-m (11-foot) surge in sea levels when it hit the coast. <br />
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The weather department warned against extensive damage to mud houses, the major disruption of power and communication lines, and the flooding of rail tracks as well as escape routes set up to flee disasters, with flying debris another threat.  <br />
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Heavy rains left lush green fields sodden with water along the Andhra Pradesh coast.<br />
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"We are ready to evacuate," said Jagdesh Dasari, 35, the wiry-haired chief of the fishing village of Mogadhalupadu, which has 2,500 residents, as the rain sheeted down. <br />
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"If the waves come higher, the whole place will vanish." <br />
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In neighbouring Odisha state, Muslims and Hindus flocked to mosques and temples to pray Phailin would not wreak the kind of havoc left by a similar storm 14 years ago that killed 10,000 people. <br />
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In the first death reported before the storm made landfall, a 40-year-old woman in the state capital, Bhubaneswar, was killed when a tree uprooted by the heavy rain fell on her early on Saturday.<br />
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"The wind speed is picking up," said Pradeep Kumar Mohapatra, the state's special relief commissioner. "Some people were earlier reluctant to move. They are willing now." <br />
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Families trekked through the rain to shelters as gusts of wind snapped branches from trees. Tourists left Puri, a popular beach resort. Officials broadcast cyclone warnings through loudspeakers, radio and television. <br />
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London-based Tropical Storm Risk classed the storm in Category 5 - the strongest such rating. The U.S. Navy's weather service said wind at sea was gusting at 314 kph. <br />
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Some forecasters likened the cyclone's size and intensity to  hurricane Katrina, which tore through the U.S. Gulf coast and New Orleans in 2005.  <br />
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 It also evoked memories of an Indian storm in 1999, when winds reaching speeds of 300 kph battered Odisha for 30 hours. <br />
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This time, however, the Odisha government said it was better prepared. Half a million people are expected to shelter in schools and other strong buildings when the storm hits, officials said. At least 60,000 people left their homes in  neighbouring Andhra Pradesh on Friday.<br />
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India's eastern naval command, based in the Andhra Pradesh port of Vishakapatnam, was on alert and shelters were being stocked with rations. All leave for government employees was cancelled.<br />
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Police said a rescue effort was launched for 18 fishermen stranded four nautical miles at sea from Paradip, a major port in Odisha, after their trawler ran out of fuel.  <br />
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Paradip halted cargo operations on Friday. All vessels were ordered to leave the port, which handles coal, crude oil and iron ore. An oil tanker holding about 2 million barrels of oil, worth $220 million, was also moved, an oil company source said. <br />
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But the storm was not expected to hit India's largest gas field, the D6 natural gas block in the Cauvery Basin further down the east coast, field operator Reliance Industries  said.<br />
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Katrina hit the U.S. Gulf coast on Aug. 29, 2005, killing about 1,800 people, and causing damage of around $75 billion. It was one of the six biggest hurricanes - also known as cyclones and typhoons - ever recorded.<br />
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