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* World powers expressed their support for Afghanistan"s desire to channel more international aid through the state budget, but warned that there must be tangible results in the fight against corruption in the country
* J.D. Salinger, the reclusive author of “The Catcher in the Rye,” has died at his home in New Hampshire aged 91, his agent said
* Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will beat opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych in western Ukraine but will not do well enough in the east to win the presidential election, a survey said
* Ukrainian presidential frontrunner Viktor Yanukovych flexed his muscles in parliament as MPs voted to dismiss the interior minister, a close ally of his opponent, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko
* An international conference on how to bring an end to the conflict in Afghanistan opened in London
* North Korea has fired several artillery shells toward a South Korean island in the Yellow Sea following
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