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Kabul seeks help for landmine plan
NAIROBI, Nov 28: Afghanistan on Sunday appealed for a billion dollars towards programmes aimed at clearing landmines and helping some two million victims of the deadly devices, officials said in Nairobi. ... 
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Nationalists at the vanguard of 'new Iraq'
BAGHDAD: Former guerrilla leader Ahmad al-Khafaji watches from his sixth floor office at the Interior Ministry in Baghdad as young US soldiers patrol the compound under a scorching sun. ...
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Sharon eyes early elections
TEL AVIV, Nov 28: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has been bumping along without a parliamentary majority for nearly six months, looks increasingly likely to call early elections after the planned Gaza pullout next year. ...
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Moroccans protest US Mideast plan
RABAT, Nov 28: Tens of thousands of Moroccans took to the streets of Rabat on Sunday to protest a planned forum on US President George W. Bush's vision of a "Greater Middle East" to be held in Rabat next month. ...
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New criteria for using force: UN panel recommendation UNITED NATIONS: A report by a high-level panel on reforming the United Nations proposes expanding the criteria for UN military action but maintains the need for Security Council approval, UN diplomats said. ...
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'Majority of Swiss back headscarf'
GENEVA, Nov 28: A majority of Swiss people would support a Muslim woman's right to wear a headscarf at her workplace, according to an opinion poll on the integration of Islam in Switzerland published on Sunday. ...
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Rally against Fallujah carnage
JAKARTA, Nov 28: Some 8,000 Indonesian Muslims on Sunday staged a peaceful rally against a major US-led assault on Fallujah, which has claimed 2,000 lives since earlier this month. ...
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India-Pakistan peace train scheduled for Jan 12
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 28: The United Religions Initiative (URI) is sponsoring a peace train from India to Pakistan on January 12 and a peace assembly in Multan from January 13 to 16 ...
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India, China PMs to discuss Aziz's visit
NEW DELHI, Nov 28: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet his Chinese and Japanese counterparts for bilateral talks during the two-day Asean summit starting in Vientiane on Monday, officials said on Sunday. ...
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Darfur refugees to resist relocation
KALMA CAMP, Nov 28: Attempts by Sudanese authorities to relocate thousands of people from overflowing camps in Darfur are likely to run into problems as the refugees, distrustful of Khartoum's motives, refuse to move. ...
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Outcome of Ukraine crisis crucial for Europe's future
LIFE isn't long enough to know everything about everywhere. Or even to know that much about anywhere. One of the big advantages of having the old Soviet Union around was that it hoovered up a great job ...
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Rwanda takes aim at rebels
KIGALI: A threatened Rwandan attack on Hutu rebels in Congo would shatter fragile regional peace efforts and in all probability fail to crush their decade-old insurgency, analysts say. ...
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