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LONDON, March 17, 2010 - Jose Mourinho guided Inter Milan to a 1-0 win against his former side Chelsea on Tuesday. With the win, Inter qualified for the Champions League quarter-finals. Inter had fallen at the first knockout stage for the last three seasons. They had missed the three best chances of the match before Wesley Sneijder sent Samuel Eto'o free. Samuel Eto'o duly netted the 78th minute winner. Inter are the only Italian team into the last eight. They went through 3-1 on aggregate.
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JERUSALEM, March 17, 2010 - Israeli lawmakers passed a bill on Tuesday to reform the working of its central bank - Bank of Israel. Under the new rules, monetary policy decisions will be made by a six-member board headed by the governor of the bank. The board will consist of the deputy governor, another central bank official and three other external members appointed by the government. They must all be Israeli citizens, have a masters degree or PhD and have at least five years experience in the finance, monetary or economic sectors.
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BANGKOK March 16, 2010 Tens of thousands of "red shirts" held a rally in Bangkok on Tuesday. They want Thailand's premier Abhisit Vejjajiva to call elections. The "red shirts", mostly rural people, are supporters of ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra. They were collecting a vial of blood from each supporter as 4 days of peaceful protest did not seem to have any effect.
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BANGKOK March 16, 2010 Tens of thousands of "red shirts" held a rally in Bangkok on Tuesday. They want Thailand's premier Abhisit Vejjajiva to call elections. The red-shirts are supporters of ousted ex-premier Thaksin Shinawatra. They were collecting a vial of blood from each supporter as 4 days of peaceful protest did not seem to have any effect. They are planning to spill it outside Abhisit's office in a symbolic shedding of blood for democracy. The "red shirts", mostly rural, say they have been disenfranchised. The "yellow shirts", supporters of Abhisit, comprise the military, urban elite and royalists.
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BAGHDAD March 13, 2010 - Partial results of Iraq’s tight election were released on Friday. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had a narrow lead
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MADRID March 13, 2010 - Al Qaeda had kidnapped three Spanish hostages in Mauritania in November. It released one of them - Spanish aid worker, Alicia Gamez, earlier this week. To free the other two, it wants a $5 million ransom and the release of imprisoned Islamist fighters. Newspaper El Pais said this, based on its sources of information.
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ALMATY March 13, 2010 Severe floods destroyed two dams in southern Kazakhstan. Around 20 people died and thousands had to be evacuated. The rescue operation is continuing. Eastern Kazakhstan is experiencing heavy snow storms. A medical evacuation helicopter trying to rescue people crashed in stormy weather killing all eight people on board.
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ACCRA, March 12, 2010 - Ivory Coast captain Didier Drogba was named African Footballer of the Year for 2009 on Thursday. He beat Cameroon’s Samuel Eto’o and Ghana’s Michael Essien for the award.
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WASHINGTON March 12, 2010 Myanmar's military government has enacted new laws for elections due later this year. The United States feels it makes a "mockery" of democracy. In the circumstances, the elections will be a joke, U.S. said on Wednesday. It also felt it would weaken U.S. efforts to improve ties with the country earlier known as Burma.
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BAKU March 11, 2010 Two Azerbaijani opposition bloggers, Adnan Hajizade, 26, and Emin Milli, 30, were sentenced to two years and two and a half years imprisonment over a violent incident in a cafe in the capital Baku last July.
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