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Chalabi's party refuses to quit office
BAGHDAD, Aug 11: Disgraced Pentagon favourite Ahmed Chalabi returned to Iraq on Wednesday to face an arrest warrant for banknote forgery as his political party refused to vacate its entire Baghdad headquarters as demanded by the government. ... 
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Court allows UK govt to jail suspects without trial
LONDON, Aug 11: Britain's government received a boost for its controversial policy of detaining foreign terrorism suspects without trial on Wednesday, when a court rejected an attempt by 10 detainees to win freedom. ...
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Video shows killing of 'CIA agent' in Iraq
DUBAI, Aug 11: A website used by militants carried a video on Wednesday purporting to show militants beheading a "CIA agent" in Iraq. The four-minute long footage showed a Western-looking man sitting on a chair surrounded by armed masked men. ...
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Detainees have no right to a lawyer: US contention
WASHINGTON, Aug 11: The US government argued on Tuesday that "war on terror" detainees at the naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had no right to meet a lawyer, even if they try to contest their imprisonment in civilian courts. ...
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FBI sting: bail plea rejected
NEW YORK, Aug 11: A US federal judge denied bail on Tuesday to two Muslim men indicted in a fake sting FBI operation to assassinate a Pakistani diplomat. ...
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US embassy in Colombo gripped by anthrax fear
COLOMBO, Aug 11: US embassy officials have contacted the government analyst department in Colombo for assistance in figuring out the content of the powder within a letter which drove embassy officials into a frenzy of anthrax fear. ...
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Turkey should join Arab bloc: Cardinal
PARIS, Aug 11: Turkey should seek its future in an association of Muslim nations rather than try to join a European community with Christian roots, the Vatican's top theologian said in an interview distributed on Wednesday. ...
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Britain clears human cloning for medical research
LONDON, Aug 11: Britain gave the go ahead on Wednesday for human cloning, granting a licence to scientists bidding to become the first in Europe to create stem cells used in medical research from a cloned human embryo. ...
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Police fire at women in Manipur
IMPHAL, Aug 11: Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas shells at hundreds of women in India's northeastern Manipur state on Wednesday as protesters marked the first month anniversary of the killing of a local woman by soldiers. ...
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BD opposition finds govt relief work 'partisan'
DHAKA, Aug 11: The deputy leader of the opposition in parliament, advocate Abdul Hamid, on Tuesday accused the government of conducting a 'partisan' relief programme. ...
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Iraq lures workers from Nepal
KATHMANDU: Many jobless Nepalis are still heading to Iraq to look for jobs, despite the recent spate of kidnappings and beheadings and a ban imposed by the government after the US invasion of Baghdad last year. ...
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Stranded Pakistanis slate politicians
The leaders of the stranded Pakistanis held the politicians of both Pakistan and Bangladesh responsible for their plight. They castigated the politicians at the inaugural session of the 12th annual general conference ...
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Nepal firm denies links with Dawood
MUMBAI: A Kathmandu based media company, Space Time Network, on Tuesday denied reports that it had any links with underworld figure Dawood Ibrahim who is wanted in India for acts of terrorism and other crimes. ...
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Rabbi studies Indian tribe's claim to be Jewish
AL QUDS: One of Israel's chief rabbis revealed on Tuesday that he had travelled to India to examine the possibility of allowing thousands of members of a tribe which claims to be Jewish to immigrate to the Jewish state. ...
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