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Boost for rural representation in China
CHINA: China will increase rural representation in its Parliament, according to draft legislation unveiled Monday amid concern over a widening gap between its countryside and cities. The move appeared to be a response to growing calls for the government to address a worsening rural-urban wealth divide that has seen the vast countryside largely left behind in China’s economic boom. The amendment to the election law of the National People’s Congress (NPC) would foster “equality” among the nation’s constituencies, Wang Zhaoguo, a top legislative official, said in a speech.
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Man charged over toddler's death
AUSTRALIA: Australian police on Sunday charged a man with manslaughter over the mysterious death of an Indian toddler whose body was found dumped by the side of a road. Gurshan Singh's body was found in long grass beside an isolated road in Melbourne's north on Thursday night. An initial autopsy on the child, who was in Australia with his parents, was inconclusive.
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Iraqis defy bomb attacks to vote
IRAQ: Iraqis on Sunday braved waves of bomb, mortar and rocket attacks that killed 24 people to vote in parliamentary elections that Al-Qaeda vowed to wreck. Baghdad bore the brunt of the violence, with dozens of mortars raining down on the capital as voting stations opened for the war-shattered nation’s second parliamentary election since US-led forces ousted dictator Saddam Hussein
Iraq elections
*Over 19 million voters
* Around 6,200 candidates
* 325 Parliamentary seats
* Over 200,000 Police, soldiers deployed in Baghdad alone
Fallujah, Baquba, Samarra and other cities across the country were also hit by mortar rounds or bombs, many of them exploding near polling stations.
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Israeli action at Al-Aqsa sacrilege - Islamic conference
SAUDI ARABIA: The Organisation of the Islamic Conference Saturday accused Israeli police of sacrilege by occupying Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque and called for international intervention to “end Israeli aggression.” Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the Jeddah-based pan-Islamic body, said in a statement that Friday’s fighting between Muslims and Israeli police, which injured dozens, was “a sacrilegious act of profanation of the holy Islamic site.”
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British PM under fire for Iraq war defence
LONDON, March 6, 2010; - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown came under fire Saturday for the way he defended his role in the 2003 Iraq invasion, with some commentators saying he had slipped off the hook. Brown told a public inquiry Friday it was “the right decision” to go into Iraq and rejected claims he denied funds for the military fight when he was finance minister.
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NKorea defector tells of business deals in West
VIENNA, March 6, 2010; - Kim Jong Ryul spent 20 years doing business for North Korea’s dictators with European firms, before he defected to Austria in 1994. Now he fears for his life after emerging from hiding this week. “I’ve come up to the light. But how long the sun will shine for me, I don’t know. I think it will be a short time,” he told AFP.
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Stars protest at closure of BBC Asian Network
LONDON, March 6, 2010; - Jay Sean, Shilpa Shetty and Amir Khan were among a host of stars who urged the BBC on Sunday to drop plans to close the Asian Network radio station. Hip-hop artist Sean, Bollywood actress Shetty and world light welterweight boxing champion Khan said a key outlet for South Asian talent would be “tragically lost” if the station closed down.They were among 158 public figures who made the plea in a joint letter to The Guardian newspaper.
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VIDEO: Visa mistake forces 92yo woman out of Australia
Health officials are criticising the deportation of the sole carer of a 92-year-old Melbourne woman. Sri Lanka born Edward Joseph, 69, is expected to be deported at 5pm (AEDT) today even though his mother, Irene, relies heavily on him.
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Singapore warns of terror threat in Malacca Straits
 Singapore’s Navy warned that a terrorist group is planning attacks on oil tankers in the Malacca Straits, one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. Terrorists may also be targeting other vessels in the shipping lane off Malaysia’s east coast, according to an advisory issued on Wednesday by the Navy’s Information Fusion Centre.
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Experts to advise Ban on SL
 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has informed Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa that he will name a panel of experts to advise him, the Secretary General, on the way forward on accountability issues related to Sri Lanka.
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