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Albania opens Communist-era nuclear bunker to public
World | Nov 29, 2014, 06:48 AM ISTTirana: The Albanian government has opened to the public the country's biggest Communist-era nuclear bunker, a secret symbol of the 40-year Cold War and the extravagances of the Communist regime.Up to 6,000 people from Albania
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G-20 summit opens in Australia; growth tops agenda
World | Nov 15, 2014, 07:53 AM ISTBrisbane: As G-20 summit host Brisbane sweltered through a blistering heat wave, world leaders on Saturday got down to the business of cementing plans to drag a sagging global economy out of the doldrums.The leaders
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Cambodian tribunal opens 1st genocide case
World | Oct 17, 2014, 10:43 AM ISTPhnom Penh, Cambodia: A U.N.-backed Cambodian tribunal began hearing the first genocide case against the country's brutal 1970s Khmer Rouge regime on Friday, another step toward justice for an estimated 1.7 million people who died
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World's highest cable-car system opens in Bolivia
World | May 31, 2014, 11:30 AM ISTLa Paz: Bolivian President Evo Morales has inaugurated the world's highest cable-car system, which began carrying passengers between this capital and the adjacent city of El Alto at an elevation of some 4,000 metres above
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Hilton Worldwide opens Bangalore Residences
Mar 28, 2014, 05:16 PM ISTNew Delhi: Hilton Worldwide and Hilton Hotels & Resorts has opened its second property, the Hilton Bangalore Residences. The upscale, full-service hotel is located in the Embassy Golf Links Business Park. The hotel overlooks the expanse
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Nirbhaya play opens in London
World | Mar 06, 2014, 04:40 PM ISTLondon: After its UK premiere at the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year, a play based on the brutal gang rape of a para-medical student in Delhi has opened in London.‘Nirbhaya', a dramatisation of the
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Japan's first 'cuddle cafe' opens, £24 for a 20-minute cuddle, no sex please
World | Oct 26, 2012, 11:33 PM ISTTokyo, Oct 26: Japan's first "cuddle cafe", opened last week, giving customers to snuggle or sleep with girls but sex is not allowed. Soineya (translated as “sleep together shop”) was launched in Akihabara, Tokyo's electronics
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Ambitious England opens national football center
Football | Oct 09, 2012, 10:17 AM ISTLondon, Oct 9: Scarred by years of failure on the international stage, the English are following a path taken by some of their biggest rivals in a bid to regain their heavyweight status in football.Prince
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Khamenei opens NAM summit, Iran will not abandon N-program
World | Aug 30, 2012, 02:53 PM ISTTehran, Aug 30 : Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei today said, his country has never pursued nuclear weapons but it will not abandon its controversial nuclear program.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei opened the summit of the
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Nadal Opens Against Gasquet In Davis Cup Semifinal
Tennis | Sep 15, 2011, 08:34 PM ISTCordoba, Spain, Sep 15: Rafael Nadal will kick off Spain's Davis Cup semifinal bid when he takes on France's Richard Gasquet in Friday's opening rubber. The Spanish are favourites with two top five ranked players
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Madonna's First Gym Opens In Mexico City
Hollywood | Nov 30, 2010, 11:03 AM ISTMexico City, Nov 30: When the glass doors of Hard Candy Fitness, Madonna's first gym, officially slide open in Mexico City on Monday, a mural of white, black and violet Warhol-esque images of the Queen