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Turkey leads ISAF in Afghanistan
KABUL, Feb 13: Turkey took command on Sunday of the Nato-led peacekeeping force in Afghanistan for a six-month stretch which will see the force expanding to the west of the country ... 
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Annan calls for new security mechanism
MUNICH, Feb 13: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan called on Sunday on Europe and the United States to devise new ways of adapting collective security solutions for a world transformed by new threats. ...
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Quitting over oil-for-food not on cards, says UN chief
LONDON, Feb 13: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan ruled out on Sunday resigning over the Iraq oil-for-food scandal that is clouding his organization's global prestige. ...
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Diplomats advocate compromise on cloning
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 13: UN diplomats, deadlocked for years over the drafting of treaty to ban the cloning of human beings world wide, open negotiations on Monday on an alternative that would instead urge each government to adopt its own laws on human cloning. ...
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Blair seeks third tenure
GATESHEAD, Feb 13: British Prime Minister Tony Blair declared on Sunday he has the "passion and hunger" to fight an expected May election and win a third straight term in power for his Labour Party. ...
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Russia has problem with US democracy, says Ivanov
MUNICH, Feb 13: Russia is concerned about US-funded projects to promote civil society and democracy on Russian territory and would not take kindly to the use of such programmes to boost foreign influence over the Russian government ...
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Iran war drums beat harder
WASHINGTON: Despite the Bush administration's insistence that, at least for now, it remains committed to using diplomatic means to halt Iran's alleged nuclear weapons programme ...
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What Eurosceptics won't say
LONDON: Ever since Tony Blair conceded the case for a referendum on the European Union's constitutional treaty last spring, the received wisdom is that he has become a political corpse. ...
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Neo-Nazis oraganize rally
DRESDEN, Feb 13: Thousands of right-wing extremists rallied in Dresden, eastern Germany, on Sunday to draw attention to "British-US crimes" on the 60th anniversary of the Allied bombing here. ...
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Delhi-Yangon moot put off
DHAKA, Feb 13: The A meeting of the tripartite techno-commercial working committee on the proposed gas pipeline from Myanmar to India through Bangladesh, scheduled to be held in Yangon today (Monday) ...
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Tigers may strike back, but war unlikely
COLOMBO: An eye for an eye. Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers may well get even for the assassination of a top rebel leader they blame on the military, but chances of an all-out return to bloody civil war are remote. ...
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Saudi police see red over Valentine roses
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia's morality police are on the scent of illicit red roses as part of a clampdown on would-be St Valentine's lovers in the strict Muslim kingdom. ...
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