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Mystery surrounds murder of Chinese workers in Afghanistan
KABUL, June 12: Four men have been arrested following the shocking murders of 11 Chinese construction workers in Afghanistan but mystery remains as to who masterminded the brutal attack. ... 
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4 killed in Kashmir grenade attack
SRINAGAR, June 12: Four people were killed and 28 hurt in a grenade attack on Saturday on a popular tourist hotel in Kashmir, police said, just days before India and Pakistan are due to begin wideranging peace talks aimed at resolving their dispute over Kashmir. ...
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Iran rejects calls to drop heavy-water reactor
TEHRAN, June 12: Iran on Saturday rejected European demands that it freeze additional parts of its atomic programme, saying it would push on with plans to build a heavy-water reactor. ...
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Sanchez okayed pressure tactics on Iraqis: paper
WASHINGTON, June 12: The top US military commander in Iraq approved high-pressure tactics used on inmates at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison, The Washington Post said on Saturday. ...
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Israel to bulldoze Gaza settlements
TEL AVIV, June 12: Israel will demolish all 21 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip as part of a promised pullout from the territory, officials said on Saturday, going back on earlier plans to leave the homes intact. ...
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US national shot dead in Riyadh
RIYADH, June 12: A US citizen was shot dead in Riyadh on Saturday, the police chief of the Riyadh region told newsmen. He said at least two people fired at the American from a pointblank range. ...
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Al Qaeda opposes ME reform plan
RIYADH, June 12: Al Qaeda and the Arab regimes may be on extreme opposite ends to each other, as far as their strategies are concerned, yet both appear to be concurring on at least one point-opposing the Middle East reform process, as initiated by the US. ...
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Kumaratunga promises peace talks in August
COLOMBO, June 12: General Secretary of the Tamil National Alliance, R. Sampandhan said on on Friday that President Kumaratunga had given assurance to the Tamil members of parliament that peace talks would take place in August. ...
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BD confident of securing top OIC post
DHAKA, June 12: Bangladesh's foreign minister M. Morshed Khan is confident of securing the post of OIC's secretary-general for the country through consensus. ...
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Reagan laid to rest in California
SIMI VALLEY, June 12: Ronald Reagan was laid to rest in the rolling California hills that he loved on Friday in a sunset ceremony that ended a week of national mourning for the 40th president - the last chapter of what President George Bush called "a great American story". ...
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A torturer's charter
LONDON: On the stage of a London theatre on Thursday night, a lawyer held up an official US document, classified by Donald Rumsfeld as "secret" and "not for foreign eyes". ...
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Communists in India oppose troops to Iraq
NEW DELHI: Any plan by the Congress Party-led minority government of India to change earlier decisions not to send troops to Iraq have been nipped in the bud by its communist allies, which oppose US dominance in the occupied country. ...
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Australian govt recognizes Afghans as refugees
After imprisoning them for almost three years on the remote Pacific island of Nauru, the Australian government has granted refugee status to the majority of the Afghan asylum seekers detained there. ...
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African leaders' role at G8 summit
JOHANNESBURG: Kenyan civil society activist Edward Oyugi says Africa's relations with the developed world amount to the continent holding out a begging bowl. ...
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