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Tehran violated obligations: UN: Agreement on nuclear plants
VIENNA, June 6: The United Nations nuclear watchdog agency has accused Iran of failing to comply with its nuclear safeguards agreement, according to a confidential report seen on Friday.... 
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EU to sign extradition accord with US
LUXEMBOURG, June 6: European Union justice ministers agreed on Friday to sign a landmark extradition deal with the United States after a year of talks, despite criticism from human rights campaigners...
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Liberian rebels encircle capital
MONROVIA, June 6: Liberian rebels struck across a key bridge into the sprawling outskirts of the capital Monrovia on Friday, driving thousands of terrified refugees before them....
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Opposition leader held in Zimbabwe
HARARE, June 6: Zimbabwe police on Friday arrested opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and charged him with treason at the end of a week of mass protests against President Robert Mugabe’s government....
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Iraqis advised to be patient
FALLUJA, June 6: A respected religious leader in an Iraqi city that has seen repeated attacks on US troops called on Sunnis on Friday to bide their time before trying to...
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Rains ease India’s heatwave
 NEW DELHI, June 6: Monsoon rains brought down temperatures across parts of India on Friday, easing a severe heatwave that has killed nearly 1,400 people in South Asia in three weeks....
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US agency threw doubts on WMDs, says official
WASHINGTON, June 6: As the Bush administration was pushing last fall for an invasion of Iraq because of alleged weapons of mass destruction, a defence department report said it did not...
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‘Chemical Ali’ may be alive, says US mly
WASHINGTON, June 6: The cousin of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, known as “Chemical Ali”, who US and British officials earlier said they thought died in a bombing raid on April...
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Post-9/11 detainees deprived of rights: AI
WASHINGTON, June 6: A report released this week by the US Department of Justice’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) confirms many of Amnesty International’s findings, that hundreds of non-nationals picked up...
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TV movie on Hillary planned
NEW YORK, June 6: Fast on the heels of her autobiography due to be on book stands on Monday, a movie on Hillary Rodham Clinton’s life is being developed by a...
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Bhindranwala declared a ‘martyr’
NEW DELHI, June 6: A dead Sikh militant leader was on Friday declared a “martyr” by Sikh religion’s highest political body, sparking fears of a revival of militancy that plagued East...
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United Nations envoy to meet Suu Kyi
YANGON, June 6: UN envoy Razali Ismail arrived in Myanmar on Friday to seek a meeting with detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, hours after Washington said she had been...
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New US immigration rules play havoc with students
PHILADELPHIA: Yahya Jalil, a Pakistani graduate student, still has vivid memories of the exhilaration he felt when he arrived in the United States to study electrical engineering at Stanford University 11...
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Roadmap: only way to a just settlement
LONDON: In 1969, Israel’s prime minister Golda Meir astonished the world with this: “It was not as if there was a Palestinian people in Palestine and we came and threw them...
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Europe’s pension timebomb ticking
LONDON: Mass mobilization on the boulevards of Paris this week — half a million demonstrators, say the police; a million and a half, say the unions. Either way, trains stopped, flights...
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Iran fears Russia going wobbly over N-deal
TEHRAN: Publicly, Iran’s contract with Russia to build a nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr is a done deal that no amount of pressure from the United States...
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US moves in S. Korea confuse North
SINGAPORE: If the United States is serious about rapid redeployment of its forces in Asia, it will have to do better than in South Korea: a decade after promising to hand...
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S. Africa’s ‘Dr Death’ wants his job back
JOHANNESBURG: Wouter Basson, one of South Africa’s most notorious apartheid era figures, is adamant he deserves to be reinstated in the military....
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