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Aircraft carrier deal with Russia in March: Fernandes optimistic
NEW DELHI, Jan 18: A major arms deal with Russia that would enable India to acquire its sea-based component of the nuclear forces triad is expected to be signed in March,... 
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Big protests held around the world: Invasion of Iraq
LONDON, Jan 18: Protesters took to the streets from Cairo to Tokyo on Saturday in mass anti-war demonstrations fired up by speculation a strike on Iraq was drawing near....
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Inspectors acting like mafia: scientist
BAGHDAD, Jan 18: UN disarmament inspectors are employing the methods of the mafia to try to tempt Iraqis to flee abroad, according to an Iraqi scientist who said he turned them...
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HK accused of bias against Indian
HONG KONG, Jan 18: A British journalist who accused Hong Kong medical staff of racism after his wife of Indian origin died in a hospital, has filed a High Court writ...
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7 killed in BD bomb blasts
DHAKA, Jan 18: At least seven people were killed and 15 others injured on Friday night when two bombs exploded at a rural fair attended by several thousand followers of a...
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Inspections should go on, says ElBaradei
VIENNA, Jan 18: UN atomic agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei said on Saturday that weapons inspectors in Iraq should be allowed to keep working after Jan 27, when the Security Council will...
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Venezuelan troops seize Coke plant
CARACAS, Jan 18: Venezuelan troops seized control of a local bottling affiliate of Coca-Cola Co. on Friday as President Hugo Chavez made good on his threat to get tough with a...
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Moscow sends envoy to Pyongyang
 BEIJING, Jan 18: A Russian envoy flew to Pyongyang on Saturday to find a way to bring North Korea and the United States to the negotiating table as Washington said the...
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Lankan govt warned of agitation
COLOMBO, Jan 18: Leader of the Opposition PA, Mahinda Rajapakse said on Friday that the party would be forced to topple the ruling United National Front if the rising inflation was...
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Israelis kill Palestinian after settlement raid
AL KHALIL, Jan 18: Israeli troops on Saturday killed a Palestinian outside Al Khalil who carried out a deadly Sabbath attack on a Jewish settlement near the divided West Bank city,...
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Kuwaiti held for spying
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 18: Kuwait said late on Friday night that it had arrested a Kuwaiti national on charges of links with Iraqi intelligence....
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Word on the war at Bagdad Cafe
BAGDAD (USA): Thousands of US marines are now within half an hour of the centre of Bagdad whose inhabitants have all fled. The surrounding area has become a desert wasteland. Military...
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India’s ‘gasohol’ shift to curb oil import bill
NEW DELHI: The Indian government’s latest move to get automobile owners to driver greener — by using ‘gasohol’ — comes many years too late, but many hope this will lead to...
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EU refugee fingerprint archive
BRUSSELS: Asylum seekers in Europe faced a new hurdle from this Wednesday, when the EU officially launched a centralised fingerprinting system operating from Brussels....
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Enigmatic ‘golden ratio’ appears in art, music, science
LONDON: Think of any two numbers. Make a third by adding the first and second, a fourth by adding the second and third, and so on. When you have written down...
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Turkish Cypriots weigh reunion
NICOSIA: Ali Dnizgezn never thought that one day he would become a revolutionary. Revolt, he says, was a far-fetched notion when he moved from “lovely London” to his roots in ...
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Waiting for bulldozers
TEL AVIV: A group of young Arab men are sitting in the courtyard of a lovely but not quite finished house on a cold night, huddled for warmth around a small...
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US plans nuclear powered spacecraft
LOS ANGELES: The US hopes to send an astronaut to Mars in a nuclear-powered rocket, according to a senior Nasa official....
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