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US linked deal with India to Iran vote: Transcripts of House hearings
WASHINGTON, Oct 4: The US had made it obvious to India, while negotiating the July 18 nuclear deal, that it will have to vote against Iran’s nuclear programme if it wants atomic reactors from Washington.... 
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UN criticizes change to referendum rule: Iraq’s constitution
BAGHDAD, Oct 4: The United Nations has criticized a last minute rule change just 10 days before a referendum on Iraq’s draft constitution, sources said on Tuesday, adding the latest dash of controversy to the troubled process....
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Turkey embarks on EU journey
LUXEMBOURG: A day after they launched landmark negotiations on Turkey’s membership of the European Union, key policymakers in Ankara and Europe voiced hopes the talks would bridge divisions between Western countries and the Islamic world....
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US to sell arms worth $2bn to S.Arabia
WASHINGTON, Oct 4: The Pentagon has notified the US Congress of possible military sales to Saudi Arabia valued at more than two billion dollars, if all options are exercised....
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2 Americans, German win Nobel for optics research
STOCKHOLM, Oct 4: Two Americans and a German won the Nobel Physics Prize on Tuesday for optical research giving extremely accurate measurements that could one day be used in deep space travel or three-dimensional holographic television....
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US to stay in Iraq till war won, vows Bush
WASHINGTON, Oct 4: Dismissing his low ratings in opinion polls as “a good way to fill (news) space,” US President George W. Bush vowed on Tuesday to stay in Iraq for as long as it takes to win the war....
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US ‘helped rescue’ Turkey-EU talks
WASHINGTON, Oct 4: The United States helped rescue Turkey’s bid to join the EU on Monday in an unusual intervention in European affairs prompted in part by American concern the bloc was interfering in NATO....
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Iranian women allowed to drive motorcycle
TEHRAN, Oct 4: After a quarter of a century of being denied the pleasure of riding a motorbike, Iranian women appear to have been given the green light to straddle a two-wheeler and cruise away solo....
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EU slaps arms embargo on Uzbekistan
LUXEMBOURG, Oct 4: The European Union has adopted an arms embargo against Uzbekistan on account of Tashkent’s refusal to accept an independent probe into a massacre last May....
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Nationalism becomes enemy of Europe
LONDON: The people of France and the Netherlands have spoken. The proposed European constitution is dead. Long live ... ! What? It’s up to pro-Europeans to say....
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Suharto’s exit exposed Indonesia to radicalism BALI: Viewed through a prism of headlines, Indonesia can easily appear to be an unstable nation being ripped asunder by radical Islamists. Four big terrorist attacks by locally recruited militants in...
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Austrians back tough stance on Turkey
VIENNA: For many Austrians, the victory over the Ottoman Turks by troops of the Austro-Hungarian empire at the gates of Vienna in 1683 is regarded as a badge of honour....
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Patten ‘not quite the diplomat’
BRUSSELS: Jacques Chirac is ignorantly hostile to reform; Pervez Musharraf is ‘not a democrat’; and Dick Cheney’s style is to stick up ‘two fingers’ to the outside world....
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Pirated goods plague Dubai
DUBAI: Veiled Arab women mingle with Western tourists in shorts to browse shelves full of Gucci and Christian Dior handbags — sleek goods which look a little too upmarket for such a modest shop....
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