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Assam rebels threaten to attack Hindi speakers: Ban on Bollywood films enforced
GUWAHATI, Nov 15: Tribal separatists in Assam on Saturday threatened attacks on Hindi-speaking people to protest assaults on Assamese train passengers in northern India.... 
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Kurdish group shuns self-rule, seeks talks
IRAQ-IRAN BORDER, Nov 15: The rebel Turkish Congress for Democracy and Freedom in Kurdistan (KADEK) — the former PKK — said on Saturday it was no longer fighting for self-rule in...
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US judge dismisses plea against Saudis
WASHINGTON, Nov 15: A US judge has dismissed claims against two high-ranking Saudi officials in a lawsuit filed by victims and survivors of the Sept 11, 2001, attacks....
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Terror mistakenly linked to Islam: scholar
KUWAIT CITY, Nov 15: Terrorism was mistakenly linked to Islam amidst growing violence in the world today, and terrorists who carry out such operations act outside religious boundaries, said Dr Khaldoun...
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Anti-terror steps heightened
ISTANBUL, Nov 15: Even before the dust settled on two synagogue bomb blasts in Istanbul on Saturday, governments were quick to see the hand of international terrorism behind the attacks....
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13 killed in accident involving biggest ship
 SAINT-NAZAIRE (France), Nov 15: Thirteen people died on Saturday when a dockside gangway to the world’s biggest and most expensive cruise ship, the Queen Mary 2, collapsed at Saint-Nazaire, in western...
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Turkey’s Jews: a history
ISTANBUL, Nov 15: Predominantly Muslim Turkey’s 35,000-strong Jewish community traces its roots back to the Jews’ expulsion from Spain five centuries ago....
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49 die in blast at China mine
BEIJING, Nov 15: The death toll from a gas explosion in a coal mine in southeast China climbed to 49 on Saturday, as a probe began into the incident which is...
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Protesters halt action in Georgia but say fight not over
TBILISI, Nov 15: The mass protests that have convulsed Georgia’s capital for the past week melted away on Saturday, giving a reprieve to embattled President Eduard Shevardnadze, who had warned the...
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Turkey not to make deal on Cyprus: PM
NICOSIA, Nov 15: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed here on Saturday that Ankara would not sign a deal solving the 29-year division of Cyprus “at any price”, despite its...
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Fire damages Jewish school near Paris
PARIS, Nov 15: A fire badly damaged a Jewish school building on the outskirts of Paris on Saturday, with the french interior minister saying it was most likely the result of...
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Palestinians discuss Geneva plan in US
RAMALLAH, Nov 15: Palestinian officials are in Washington for talks with senior US officials to see if they can boost the chances of the so-called Geneva Initiative peace plan, officials said...
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Timetable for handover of power in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Nov 15: The following is a chronology of events announced here ON Saturday according to an agreement signed between US overseer in Iraq, Paul Bremer, and Jalal Talabani, who currently...
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63 injured as train derails
SYDNEY, Nov 15: More than 60 people were injured when a passenger train derailed in rural Australia on Saturday after a car was left on the tracks, police said....
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Time to mull over Iraq solutions
LONDON: Stunned and grieving Italians paid a heavy price for their military involvement in Iraq this week when 19 carabinieri and civilians were the victims of a devastating suicide bombing in...
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Kashmir’s disappeared under the spotlight
SRINAGAR: A year after Mufti Mohammad Syed took over as chief minister of Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir state, critics are asking if he remembers the promises he made that brought...
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Britons’ status questioned
LONDON: Jack Straw, the foreign secretary, has been asked to explain the legality of Britain’s involvement in the American-run coalition provisional authority in Iraq....
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Israel’s broken promises
SAWIYA (West Bank): The Israeli government has admitted in a secret memorandum that Ariel Sharon has failed to honour commitments to President George Bush to dismantle Jewish settler outposts in the...
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Israelis destroying Palestinian olive trees
SAWIYA (West Bank): Abdula Yusuf is too afraid to climb the rocky terraces beyond his village and see the damage for himself. “They’ll kill me,” he said, waving a hand at...
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US toll in Iraq has Vietnam parallels
PHILADELPHIA: The US death toll in Iraq has surpassed the number of American soldiers killed during the first three years of the Vietnam War, the brutal Cold War conflict that cast...
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