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Nepal Maoists kill 37 policemen: Ceasefire broken after 4 months
KATHMANDU, Nov 24: Thirty-seven policemen and soldiers were killed in Nepal as Maoist rebels ended their four-month ceasefire with a series of attacks across the kingdom, the home minister said Saturday.... 
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Israel defends policy of assassination
 AL QUDS, Nov 24: Israel endorsed on Saturday the assassination of a man it blamed for the two worst suicide bombings of the 14-month-old Palestinian uprising, ignoring calls for an end...
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Magicians using skills to help sell products
UDUPI (India), Nov 24: Magicians are using their skills to sell products and lift the morale of employees in a bid to make their art commercially viable, practitioners at an international...
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Malaysian police arrest Philippine rebel leader
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 24: Philippine Muslim rebel leader Nur Misuari, wanted for leading a bloody revolt, was arrested in Malaysia early on Saturday, Inspector General of Police Norian Mai said....
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US frames new rules for visas to Saudis
RIYADH, Nov 24: Saudi nationals applying for US visas will have to submit, along with their visa applications, photographs showing their full face without their headdress, the kaffiyeh, which they normally...
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Bush braces nation for ‘difficult times ahead’
WASHINGTON, Nov 24: President George W. Bush on Saturday told Americans celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday to brace themselves for “difficult times ahead” as the offensive in Afghanistan enters a more perilous...
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Nobel prize for economics not worthy, says family
STOCKHOLM, Nov 24: As preparations to mark the 100th anniversary of the first Nobel Prizes head into the final stretch, four members of the Nobel family have called for the name...
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300,000 Mozambicans face starvation
MAPUTO, Nov 24: About 300,000 people were eating wild fruits and roots to survive as some districts in the southern Mozambican province of Inhambane face starvation....
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Syria, Jordan discuss new dam project
DAMASCUS, Nov 24: Syrian Minister of Irrigation Taha al-Atrash met Saturday with his visiting Jordanian counterpart Hazem Nasser to discuss the construction of a dam in Yarmouk valley....
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Woman delivers baby on return from abroad
JAKARTA, Nov 24: An Indonesian woman delivered a baby on arrival this week at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, after being deported from Saudi Arabia for overstaying her entry permit, a news...
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UN seeks exclusion of HR offenders: Future Afghan govt
LISBON, Nov 24: Afghan leaders whose forces commit atrocities should be kept out of any future Afghan government, the United Nations’ high commissioner for human rights said on Saturday....
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Legal expert attacks US plan for military courts
WASHINGTON, Nov 24: A leading international jurist on Friday criticized U.S. plans to try foreign terrorism suspects before military courts, saying there was no guarantee the accused would get fair trials....
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Suicide Taliban fighter kills two: Commander, journalist injured
LONDON, Nov 24: A surrendering Taliban soldier on Saturday blew himself up with a handgrenade in a suicide attack which seriously injured a Northern Alliance commander and killed two other fighters...
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Hijackers’ interest in crop dusters puzzles investigators
LOS ANGELES, Nov 24: Seven months before he crashed an airliner into the World Trade Center, Mohamed Atta was asking crop dusters in Florida an odd question about their planes: how...
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US sharpens eye with more drones
WASHINGTON, Nov 24: The US military stepped up its surveillance in the skies over Afghanistan this week with the deployment of its latest pilotless spy plane, the Global Hawk....
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US war nurturing fresh hatreds: writer
ROME: Outspoken US writer Gore Vidal has denounced Washington for waging what he called “a perpetual war for ¨perpetual peace” and said American aggression was only nurturing fresh hatreds. In a...
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Bosnian blueprint for Afghanistan
LOS ANGELES: With the collapse of the Taliban, a multinational force becomes a likely guarantor of Afghanistan’s immediate future. It is no small irony that in this, the Bush administration may...
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S. Lankan leader’s return complicates peace process
COLOMBO: The return from exile of a former rebel and leader of Sri Lanka’s biggest Marxist group is meant to boost his party ahead of next month’s poll, but analysts say...
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Palestinians struggling to make ends meet
QALANDIA (West Bank): Eight-year-old Ahmed Shqeir measures his life in coffee cups. A coffee kettle in one hand and plastic cups in the other, the young Palestinian peddler shuttles among angry...
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Forgotten martyrs of conflict lie unclaimed
TARAKHEL: There are no mourners to remember the Taliban, Arab and Pakistani fighters buried at the graveyard in the forgotten, dusty plains of Tarakhel. Anonymous slabs of cold slate numbered with...
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