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Washington exporting torture tools, says Amnesty
WASHINGTON: US companies are exporting millions of dollars worth of equipment known to be used for torture, including selling devices to 12 countries where the State Department says the use of... 
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In Europe, addition can divide the union
LONDON: Mathematics and politics meet daily in every parliamentary decision, periodically in every election, and critically when nations form coalition governments or change their method of choosing representatives. But as the...
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Why pick on Mugabe?
LONDON: The Commonwealth’s combined population of 1.7 billion people make up 30 per cent of the world’s population. It should be a beacon for the protection of human rights in a...
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5m chase 20,000 jobs in India
NEW DELHI: When the Indian railways, one of the world’s biggest non-military employers, advertised for 20,000 unskilled jobs recently, five million men applied. The flood of recruits underlined the fact that...
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Democrats’ campaign & TV
LOS ANGELES: There are references to war records and battles with cancer. The music is generally sombre and portentous, and the commentary packed with claims of leadership skills and solemn pledges...
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Indian polls strengthen BJP’s hand on reforms
MUMBAI: Sweeping election wins in three Hindi heartland states are expected to give India’s ruling Hindu nationalists renewed strength to put faltering economic reforms back on track and silence critics....
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US short of body armour
WASHINGTON: The US army has promised to rush new body armour to Iraq by the end of this month after it emerged that tens of thousands of soldiers were sent to...
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Year-long truce Hamas, Jihad turn down Egyptian proposal
CAIRO, Dec 5: Several radical Palestinian factions on Friday rejected an Egyptian proposal for a year-long halt to attacks on Israelis amid efforts to secure a ceasefire and restart peace talks,...
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Whites, Africans split over Zimbabwe
ABUJA, Dec 5: Commonwealth leaders attempted to sidestep the burning issue of Zimbabwe’s suspension on Friday but the dispute between African nations and the so-called “white Commonwealth” overshadowed the first day...
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16 Bangladeshis held in Bolivia over anti-US plot
LA PAZ (Bolivia), Dec 5: Bolivian police have detained 16 Bangladeshis on suspicion of links to terrorism following a tip from France that the group planned to strike US targets, officials...
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Congress in introspection after poor poll performance
NEW DELHI, Dec 5: India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday celebrated sweeping victories in three state assembly polls, while leaders of the defeated Congress party staged an inquiry into...
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Israel considering major pullback
TEL AVIV, Dec 5: A senior Israeli minister on Friday backed a unilateral withdrawal from large swathes of the occupied territories....
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US calls for Russian pullout from Georgia
TBILISI, Dec 5: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called for Russia to withdraw its troops in Georgia after he arrived to show support for the strategic nation’s new leaders less than...
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Four killed in clashes in Iran
TEHRAN, Dec 5: Four people were killed on Thursday in clashes with police in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province which broke out after a local driver was shot dead....
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5 of outlawed party shot dead in BD
DHAKA, Dec 5: Political rivals slaughtered on Thursday night five members of an outlawed party in a village in the bordering district of Jhenaidah, some 250 kms from here....
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Infiltration continuing, alleges Advani
NEW DELHI, Dec 5: Indian Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani on Friday renewed accusations that Pakistan was sneaking fighters into occupied Kashmir....
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Kashmiri lands up in Delhi after coma
AMRITSAR, Dec 5: A man who fled occupied Kashmir in 1989 to live in Pakistan to escape the law and went on to become a criminal lawyer, arrived in New Delhi...
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Saudi spared execution by victim’s family
RIYADH, Dec 5: A convicted Saudi Arabian murderer was spared execution after tribal sheikhs persuaded his victim’s father to accept five million riyals (1.33 million dollars) in return for his life....
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