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• Trial announced for Costa Concordia Captain

  An Italian judge has ordered the captain of the Costa Concordia cruise ship to stand trial for manslaughter in the

• Rape case against man who married girl, 13

  Prosecutors say they are pursuing rape charges against a Malaysian who allegedly had sex with a 13-year-old and then

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  1.5 kg tumour removed from woman’s face

  The operation lasted 8 hours

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  Saudi women need nod to drive in Kuwait

  Kuwait recognizes Saudi regulations: Police

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  Iconic Saudi Metro station designs revealed

  The winning designs were selected for their outstanding conceptual thinking and powerful design

• India’s ruling party gets grim poll ratings

  38% of those polled wanted Modi to run for BJP as PM

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  Two ageing female friends die at same time

  Two ageing Saudi women who had vowed to stick together as friends all their life died almost at the same time as if to

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  Missing 90-year-old Saudi found dead of thirst

  A 90-year-old Saudi man who vanished just after he drove out of his house in the Gulf Kingdom nearly a month ago was

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  Pakistan's Imran Khan discharged from hospital

  Khan suffered serious back injuries in a fall from a forklift

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  Saudi food inflation at record high in April

  General inflation rises to 4% in April from 3.9% in previous 3 months

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  EU to brand Lebanon's Hezbollah as 'terrorists'

  US does not differentiate between Hezbollah's armed and political wings

• Russia slams 'outrageous' Eurovision vote scandal

  Azerbaijan admits its vote to Russia's song seems falsified

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  Saudi paper under fire for 'blasphemous' praise of King

  A mass-circulation newspaper in Saudi Arabia has been slammed by local religious authorities for publishing an article

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  Saudi Arabia: Magnificent mountain in the south, deadly desert in east

  Little known Fifa mountains one of the most beautiful and fertile regions

• Afghan's Karzai to push for Indian military aid

  Afghan President Hamid Karzai will try and secure more military aid in talks with Indian leaders on Tuesday as he looks

• Indonesian mine collapse dead toll rises to 21

  Rescuers recovered another four bodies from a collapsed underground room at a giant US-owned gold and copper mine in

• Defamation charges against Egyptian journalists

  The United States on Monday expressed concern over defamation charges brought against two Egyptian journalists critical

• 6.0 quake off Russia's far-east coastline

  A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula early Tuesday, the US Geological Survey reported,

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  Sectarian violence in Iraq kills 95

  Fears of a dangerous spillover from Syria's civil war

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  Bombs kill over 60 in Iraq

  More than 200 people killed in past week