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Sharon grabs more WB land than he returned in Gaza JERUSALEM: At the northern edge of Jerusalem, on the main road to the Palestinian city of Ramallah, three towering concrete walls are converging around a rapidly built maze of cages, turnstiles and bomb-proof rooms....		Kalam objects to Google’s images of sensitive sites NEW DELHI, Oct 18: Indian military analysts are divided over whether Google’s satellite image service, which the president has warned could help terrorists find targets, poses a serious threat to national security....
China redesigns building over anti-Japan sentiment SHANGHAI, Oct 18: The Japanese firm building China’s tallest office block said on Tuesday that it redrafted part of the design after authorities expressed fears that it looked too much like Japan’s national flag....		China cancels Japanese FM’s visit: Koizumi’s shrine trip BEIJING, Oct 18: China said on Tuesday Japan’s foreign minister is not welcome in Beijing, after the nation’s Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi paid a controversial visit to a Tokyo war shrine....
BD, Chad top world corruption index DHAKA, Oct 18: Bangladesh has topped a list of countries where corruption is perceived to be most prevalent for the fifth consecutive year. Chad, a central African country, shares the title...		Ozone hole has peaked: UN GENEVA, Oct 18: Depletion of the ozone layer above Antarctica, caused by emissions of industrial chemicals, seems to have peaked, indicating that global environmental pacts were working, UN scientists said on Tuesday....
Iran’s hardline press calls for cutting ties with UK TEHRAN, Oct 18: Iran’s leading hardline newspapers on Tuesday called on the government to cut diplomatic ties with Britain after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused London of being behind deadly weekend bombings in southern Iran....		‘Anomalies’ cause delay in results: Iraq’s referendum BAGHDAD, Oct 18: Iraqi election officials combed through ballots on Tuesday from the country’s historic constitutional referendum, but a senior official said the discovery of ‘anomalies’ in the vote should not affect the final outcome....
US tunnel closed after security scare BALTIMORE, Oct 18: A security scare closed two major Baltimore highway tunnels for about two hours on Tuesday, in the latest incident to unnerve the public and force officials to defend their actions as necessary precaution....		White House shrugs off drop in Bush ratings WASHINGTON, Oct 18: With the president’s job approval at its lowest ever, the White House said on Tuesday George W. Bush was not driven by public opinion polls and dismissed them as ‘something Washington gets caught up in’....
US official to finalize N-deal in India visit WASHINGTON, Oct 18: US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns leaves Washington on Wednesday for talks aimed at finalizing an India-US deal which will allow India to acquire nuclear reactors from the United States....		Greece bans poultry shipments from Aegean OINOUSSES (Greece), Oct 18: Greece on Tuesday banned all poultry shipments in the eastern Aegean Sea region and placed the elderly owners of a poultry flock under medical surveillance as it...
BD to deploy 30,000 soldiers for summit DHAKA, Oct 18: The government of Bangladesh on Tuesday finalized security arrangements for the upcoming South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation summit, with alleged militants topping the list of potential gatecrashers....		QIran’s tea imports are impure: MP TEHRAN, Oct 18: Tea imported into Iran from India and Sri Lanka is impure and Tehran should instead buy its favourite refreshment from Muslim countries like Indonesia, an MP was quoted as saying on Tuesday....
Pakistani art on display in US NEW YORK, Oct 18: An exhibition of paintings by six contemporary artists of Pakistan opened in Connecticut’s Aldrich Contemporary Art museum this week. The exhibition, ‘Karkhana’, is a creative experiment by...		Winter a problem for relief workers UNITED NATONS, Oct 18: Saying that ‘the race against time is growing shorter and shorter as the weather closes in’, a top UN official said on Monday that winter’s freezing temperatures...
Hurricane heading to Caribbean MIAMI, Oct 18: Tropical Storm Wilma, the 21st named storm of the Atlantic season, became a Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson intensity scale on Tuesday and was expected to develop into a ‘major’ storm, weather officials said....		Anbar deputy governor shot dead in Ramadi RAMADI, Oct 18: A senior member of the provincial government in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, the focus of the Sunni resistance, was shot dead by gunmen in Ramadi on Tuesday, a local doctor said....
Is a new conflict on the cards in the ME? THE Sunday Telegraph warned last weekend that the UN had a last chance to avert war with Iran and, at a meeting in London last week, the US ambassador to the...		Depression and hunger stalk tsunami survivors LAMTEUNGOH (Indonesia): Putri’s baby is big. At 4 kg (8.8 lb), baby Angi is, in fact, huge by the natal standards of Indonesia — all the more remarkable since her mother...