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Saddam Hussein faces long list of allegations BAGHDAD, Oct 16: Former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein is to stand trial on Wednesday for the 1982 massacre of 143 Iraqi Shias, but has also been accused of many other crimes against humanity....		Merkel gives finishing touches to German cabinet BERLIN, Oct 16: Germany’s incoming chancellor Angela Merkel was set to name the conservative ministers of her cabinet on Monday to put the finishing touches to a coalition government which will...
Europe fights to contain bird flu outbreak BRUSSELS, Oct 16: The growing threat of lethal bird flu spreading across Europe will soar to the top of EU leaders’ menu this week, after the deadly Asian strain of the virus landed on the continent for the first time....		First results finalised after Afghan vote KABUL, Oct 16: Afghanistan’s election authority announced final results for two of the country’s 34 provinces on Sunday as hundreds of protestors blocked roads in two key cities alleging fraud in the count....
World congratulates Iraq on referendum PARIS, Oct 16: The referendum on the Iraqi constitution was hailed internationally on Sunday as a key step towards democracy and stability, and what Washington called a bad day for terrorists....		Five killed in Thailand violence NARATHIWAT (Thailand): Five people, including two teenagers and a monk, were killed on Sunday in separate shootings and a suspicious fire at a Buddhist temple in Thailand’s restive south, police said....
Iran suspects UK hand in Ahvaz bombing TEHRAN, Oct 16: Iranian officials said on Sunday they suspected British involvement in a double bomb attack in the ethnic-Arab dominated city of Ahvaz....		Aziz to testify against old boss LONDON, Oct 16: Iraq’s former number two Tareq Aziz will testify against his old boss Saddam Hussein at the toppled dictator’s trial for war crimes in return for his freedom, a...
‘We have no place to sleep except in the open’ MUZAFFARABAD: As rain pelted a muddy soccer field on Saturday, Zulfiqar Butt wrestled with a four-foot length of broken window frame and a wind-whipped tarpaulin, eventually planting the wood scrap in the sodden earth to serve as a tent pole....		Guantanamo prisoners attempt to be heard GUANTANAMO BAY: “I know you can hear me,” shouted one of about 150 inmates in the first prison of Guantanamo Bay’s Camp Delta. “America ... Pakistan” were the other two words...
Somali enclave dreams of nationhood HARGEISA: Abdi Ibrahim lost most of his loved ones in 1988 when government bombers attacked Hargeisa, at the time just another city flattened by Somalia’s civil war....		Red-era building in Berlin to host last show BERLIN: The end is nigh for Berlin’s most famous eyesore, a colossus of concrete and steel which once housed East Germany’s Communist government and now stands derelict on the city’s main tourist drag....
Shatru is no longer a BJP star PATNA: Actor-turned politician Shatrughan Sinha, BJP’s star campaigner for many years, is staying aloof from National Democratic Alliance’s electioneering in Bihar. And he is not wanted by the party either....		McCartney’s new album gets personal LOS ANGELES: With a little help from his friends, Paul McCartney has released what he calls his most ‘publicly personal’ album, and has just begun a US tour that will keep him in the public eye through the end of November....
Russia reviews joint terror training in India NEW DELHI, Oct 16: Russia’s defence minister said on Sunday that Moscow wants to sell its most modern weapons to India after reviewing anti-terrorism training exercises here, news reports said....		Afghans protest killing of cleric KHOST, Oct 16: About five thousand Afghans protested on Sunday against the assassination of a pro-government religious figure in a suspected Taliban bomb blast, urging the government to protect Islamic clerics from further attacks....