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A local Taleban commander in the NWFP of Pakistan has issued a ban on all girls attending school in the Swat valley during comments broadcast on his illegal radio station.

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PA Prez Abbas said he tried to persuade Hamas to continue the truce with Israel during a joint press conference with Egyptian FM Gheit, who complained that Hamas is preventing the wounded from getting medical attention in Egypt.

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"There are, according to the recently launched World Superhero Registry, more than 200 men and a few women who are willing to dress up as comic book heroes and patrol the urban streets in search of, if not super-villains, then pickpockets and bullies."

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