| After 9/11, US 'tortured some folks': Obama
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| The United States tortured al-Qaida detainees captured after the 9/11 attacks, President Obama said Friday, in some of his most expansive comments to date about a controversial set of CIA practices that he banned after taking office.
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| US House passes $694 million border security bill
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| Republicans in the US House of Representatives voted on Friday to crack down on Central American migrants, including unaccompanied children, who are flooding to the US border with Mexico, as lawmakers passed a $694 million border security bill.
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| Coffee exports up 1.5% in 10 months of crop year
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 India's coffee exports have registered a marginal growth of 1.5% to touch 262,864 tonnes for the first 10 months of the current coffee year (October-September). In the same period of previous year, exports were 258,835 tonnes.
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| Yeager is not quite bombproof yet
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 JOCKEY Jim Byrne told how Yeager panicked in the run but Tony Gollan insisted it was a good learning curve for a horse earmarked as a winter carnival campaigner next year. The three-year-old gelding, an $85,000 purchase, broke his maiden status in the QTIS Handicap (1600m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday but not before a band of favourite punters broke into a nervous ...
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