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US forces detain 11 Turkish soldiers
ISTANBUL, July 5: Turkey on Saturday said it was contemplating retaliation after US forces in Iraq detained at least 11 Turkish soldiers on suspicion of fomenting an attack on a Kurdish... 
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15 killed as heavy rains lash India
NEW DELHI, July 5: Fifteen people have been killed in monsoon storms in India, while the flood situation in the northeast worsened on Saturday, taking the number of people displaced to...
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US has global mission: Bush
WASHINGTON, July 5: US President George Bush declared on Saturday that the US mission in the world was “broader” than just fighting terrorism and ending the rule of dictators like Saddam...
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Abbas meets Hamas founder
GAZA, July 5: Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas met on Saturday for the first time with Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in an apparent bid to shore up a ceasefire vital...
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Kuwaitis go to the polls to elect parliament
KUWAIT CITY, July 5: Kuwaitis went to the polls on Saturday to elect a 50-seat parliament. Unfazed by sweltering daytime temperatures of almost 50 degrees Celsius, Kuwaiti men eligible to vote cast their ballots from 8am to 8pm in the emirate’s 25 electoral constituencies.
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Police link blast to seizure of theatre
 MOSCOW, July 5: Russian police said on Saturday that an attack that killed at least 20 people, including two suicide bombers on Saturday, was similar to a Chechen assault that killed...
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Advani asked Hindus to demolish mosque: CBI
NEW DELHI, July 5: India’s Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) on Saturday told a court that eyewitnesses had seen Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishan Advani instigating Hindu zealots to tear down...
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Pakistan likely to send troops to Iraq
WASHINGTON, July 5: Pakistani soldiers are likely to form part of the first international force of two divisions expected to arrive in Iraq by the end of this month, diplomatic sources...
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Mishra to visit Paris next week
PARIS, July 5: French authorities appear to be attaching some importance to the visit to Paris next week of Indian national security adviser Brajesh Mishra in a bid to push for...
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Soul singer Barry White dies
LOS ANGELES, July 5: Soul singer Barry White, whose rich bass crooning stirred romance in the hearts of a generation of fans, died on Friday at the age of 58, his...
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Saudi Arabia to sound out Iran about suspects
RIYADH, July 5: Iranian judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi began a two-day official visit to Saudi Arabia on Saturday when the issue of Saudi captives in Iran, suspected of having links...
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100,000 striking employees sacked in India
CHENNAI, July 5: The government of Tamil Nadu state on Saturday sacked nearly 100,000 employees who were on the fourth day of a strike for higher wages....
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West can’t impose democracy on ME
LONDON: Can the West democratise the Middle East? Clearly, the answer is no. But whether the Middle East can become democratic is a very different question....
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Italian PM: Europe’s most dangerous leader: Creeping totalitarianism
LONDON: The Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, may have been forced to apologise, albeit belatedly, for his extraordinary attack on Martin Schulz, the German MEP, but it seems likely that the...
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West Africa looking to US for help on Liberia
ACCRA: Cash-strapped West Africa is looking to the United States to help it solve the source of the biggest instability in the sub-region — Liberia....
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Australia adopts new foreign policy
SYDNEY: It just so happened that Australian Prime Minister John Howard was in Washington when a plane was flown into the Pentagon a couple of blocks from his hotel....
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