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Dozens rescued in Italian avalanche Agence France Presse 3 Mar 06 ROME (AFP) - Dozens of people were rescued from an avalanche that swept down a mountain near Italy's border with France but at least one person is still missing, Italian media reported.

Bomb hits Canadian convoy in Afghanistan, eight Taliban killed Agence France Presse 3 Mar 06 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AFP) - A suicide car bomb wounded five coalition soldiers in southern Afghanistan while eight Taliban fighters were killed and four police wounded in a separate incident.

Russian stock market fever raises government fear of 'bubble' Agence France Presse 3 Mar 06 MOSCOW (AFP) - A record-shattering expansion of the Russian stock market over more than a year may have reached a ceiling and is beginning to worry the Russian government, which said that it feared the creation of a financial bubble.

Korea's bid for truth and reconciliation Christian Science Monitor 3 Mar 06 The Christian Science Monitor - Near the notorious former headquarters of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA), investigators pore over a turbulent historical record - abuses of political prisoners, collaboration with Japanese occupiers, massacres of civilians in the Korean War.

US Envoy Accuses China Over Product Piracy Associated Press 3 Mar 06 AP - China is failing to do enough to prevent growing product piracy and could be forced to answer formal complaints over it in the World Trade Organization if it doesn't take more aggressive action, a U.S. trade envoy said Friday.

Party Urges Germany to Address Iraq Intel Associated Press 3 Mar 06 AP - An opposition party on Thursday warned it may trigger a parliamentary probe of German intelligence operations in the Iraq war unless the government addresses more fully a report that its spies passed Iraqi defense plans to U.S. forces.

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