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Dungeon dad details The wife of Austria'saccused "horror father? Josef Fritzl never believed her husband was involved in the 24-year disappearance of their daughter, even though he had alreadyserved an 18-month prison sentence for a 1967 rape conviction, her sister said. In atelevision interview for The Associated Press, the sister-in-lawofthe man accused of imprisoning his daughter in adingydungeon for over two decades, repeatedly raping her and fathering her seven children, has provided the intimate details of the life of oppression inside the Fritzl home. She said incest victim Elisabeth ran away from home as a17-year-old, about six months before police say she was locked into the soundproofed, windowless cellar beneath their apartment -hinting at amotive for the crime.

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HILLARYBLASTED FOR REMARKS Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama accused rival HillaryClinton of sabre rattling toward Iran yesterday and compared her approach to thatofunpopular Republican President Bush. "I think it'slanguage that'sreflective of George Bush. We have had aforeign policyofbluster and sabre rattling,?Obama said of Clinton'sthreatto"totally obliterate? Iran if it attacked Israel. MYANMAR

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Apowerful cyclone has killed more than 350 people in Myanmar, destroying thousands of homes and knocking out power in the country's largest city, Yangon. State-run media reported that five regions of the impoverished Southeast Asian country, formerly known as Burma, have been declared disaster zones. Cyclone Nargis struck early Saturday with winds of nearly 200 kilometres an hour. The military-run Myaddy television station put the death count at 351, including 109 who lived on Haing Gyi Island off the country's southwest coast. Many of the oth-

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