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Malaysia surprises neighbours: Arms purchase
KUALA LUMPUR: When Russian President Vladimir Putin flew home on Thursday after a two-day visit to Malaysia, he left $900 million dollars richer and confident that Russia had finally pried opened... 
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UNSC key to Liberia’s future: experts
UNITED NATIONS: As Nigerian peacekeeping troops trickle into Monrovia and UN humanitarian agencies request emergency aid for Liberia, non-governmental experts and UN officials insist the key to lasting peace in the...
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European Union plans to toughen asylum rules
LONDON: Failed asylum seekers will be deported by bus, train, and unmarked police cars, until they are “finally removed” from the European Union under a plan drawn up by European officials....
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‘The six degrees of separation’
WASHINGTON: It really is a small world. The idea that there are only six degrees of separation — only a handful of people between you and anyone else in the world...
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Blair, Berlusconi lobby Bush for ’copters
LONDON: Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Italian counterpart, Silvio Berlusconi, are intensely lobbying George Bush to buy AgustaWestland EH-101 helicopters for his new presidential fleet, the Guardian learnt....
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Pentagon now home to neo-conservative network
WASHINGTON: An ad hoc office under US Undersecretary of Defence for Policy Douglas Feith appears to have acted as the key base for an informal network of mostly neo-conservative political appointees...
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UN panel tells Israel to stop building fence
GENEVA, Aug 8: Israel should stop building its fence through the West Bank, a panel of UN human rights experts said on Friday, warning that the barrier imposed “unjustifiably severe” restrictions...
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US accused of ignoring HR abuses in India
WASHINGTON, Aug 8: A Christian religious leader said on Friday that the US government has been complacent in addressing human rights violations that continue to take place in India....
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S. Arabia frees seven convicted Westerners
LONDON, Aug 8: Five Britons, a Canadian and a Belgian convicted of carrying out a wave of bombings in Saudi Arabia in 2000 and early 2001 were freed on Friday....
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Gujarat govt ordered to protect witness
NEW DELHI, Aug 8: India’s supreme court on Friday ordered the government of Gujarat to provide protection to a key witness to the murder of 12 Muslims during the carnage last...
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Omar Sharif gets one-year suspended term
PARIS, Aug 8: Actor Omar Sharif has been sentenced by the Tribunal de Grande Instance of the Paris suburb of Pontoise to one-year in jail as well as 1800 euros ($2050)...
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Bodies of 100 Bangladeshis in Saudi morgues
RIYADH, Aug 8: Nearly 100 bodies of Bangladeshi expatriate workers are lying in morgues in Saudi Arabia waiting to be sent back to Bangladesh for burial....
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Indian govt orders tests on colas
NEW DELHI, Aug 8: India, caught in anti-cola protests, ordered two state-run laboratories on Friday to check if Pepsi and Coca-Cola were selling soft drinks laced with pesticides....
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Indian detained over phone calls to Pakistan
NEW DELHI, Aug 8: Police in India’s capital briefly detained an employee of a nuclear facility for making telephone calls to Pakistan, freeing him after he explained he had been talking...
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Six Russian soldiers killed near Chechnya
NAZRAN, Aug 8: Russian troops and armed police combed woodland near Chechnya on Friday after guerillas killed six Russian soldiers and wounded seven others in a cross-border raid, local officials said....
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Attacks becoming sophisticated: US
WASHINGTON, Aug 8: US forces are encountering more improvised explosive devices in Iraq as opponents of the occupation turn their sights on “soft”, more lightly defended targets, a commander said on...
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Bush appoints supporter to run corporate sector
WASHINGTON, Aug 8: US President George Bush has appointed one of his major political fundraisers, Thomas Foley, to run the Iraqi state business sector and draw up a sweeping privatization....
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‘Legitimate interests’ in Iraq must be safeguarded: China
 BEIJING, Aug 8: China has said the “legitimate interests” of foreign countries in Iraq should be safeguarded, in a veiled reference to contracts Chinese companies signed with the Saddam Hussein government....
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