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Afghan polls: first in country's history
KABUL, Oct 8: Afghanistan's nation wide polls on Saturday will be its first direct presidential election since independence from Britain in 1919. ... 
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Dostum makes an unlikely democrat
MAZAR-I-SHARIF: The burly general stood a little uncertainly before the roaring crowd in Mazar-i-Sharif. For 20 years Abdul Rashid Dostum had built up a reputation for ruthlessness ...
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US govt files suit against Internet 'spy ware'
WASHINGTON, Oct 8: The U.S. government has sued a New Hampshire man in its first attempt to crack down on Internet "spy ware" that seizes control of a user's computer without permission. ...
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Bomb hits Jakarta's Paris embassy
PARIS, Oct 8: A small parcel bomb exploded outside the Indonesian embassy in Paris before dawn on Friday, slightly injuring 10 people and shattering windows, but officials said they had no clues to the motive. ...
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UN urged to lead anti-terror battle: EU-Asia summit opens
HANOI, Oct 8: European and Asian leaders called on Friday for the United Nations to spearhead the fight against international terrorism in veiled criticism of the unilateral US approach to global threats. ...
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Probe plea by Jewish body rejected
FRANKFURT, Oct 8: German authorities declined on Friday to open a criminal probe following a complaint by a leading Jewish rights group that Arab publishers were displaying anti-Semitic literature at a major book fair. ...
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Iran deplores condemnation of Egypt blasts
TEHRAN, Oct 8: Iran's influential former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Friday criticised the international condemnation of the deadly anti-Israeli bombings in Egypt that he said were acts of retaliation. ...
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Kenya's Maathai wins Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO, Oct 8: Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, honoured for fighting poverty by trying to save the continent's shrinking forests. ...
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Fantasy war in Kashmir: Indian major on trial
NEW DELHI, Oct 8: The Indian army on Friday charged a decorated senior officer with faking acts of gallantry while deployed on the Kashmir battlefront, the defence ministry said on Friday. ...
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54 die, 1m flee homes as rains lash India, BD
GUWAHATI, Oct 8: At least 54 people have died and more than a million have fled their homes as torrential rains lashed parts of India and Bangladesh, officials said on Friday. ...
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30 hurt as plane overshoots runway in BD
DHAKA, Oct 8: At least 30 people were injured when an F-28 aircraft of Biman Bangladesh Airlines skidded off the runway after landing at the MAG Osmani International Airport in Sylhet amid inclement weather on Friday morning. ...
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Sidelined neo-cons stoke future fires
WASHINGTON: Sidelined by their failed predictions for Iraq and US President George W Bush's efforts to reassure voters he is not a warmonger, prominent neo-conservatives ...
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How proof became a burden
LONDON: With the release of the 918-page report of the Iraq Survey Group, many people are again asking how the intelligence agencies in Britain and the US could have got it so wrong. ...
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Aborigines seek a voice at polls
SYDNEY: Aborigine Maisie Austin sits in the dirt under a tree hearing the grievances of aboriginal elders who have invited her to their "country" as she campaigns in the Northern Territory outback for Saturday's Australian elections. ...
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