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Tehran will escape UN referral: diplomats
BERLIN, Oct 20: The International Atomic Energy Agency will most likely not refer Iran to the UN Security Council when the UN agency’s board meets next month, Western diplomats said.... 
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Muslim envoys protest against blasphemous sketches
COPENHAGEN, Oct 20: The ambassadors of Muslim countries to Denmark have protested against 12 newspaper sketches of Holy Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in a letter to Denmark’s prime minister, his office said on Thursday....
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Arab League chief on fence-mending Iraq visit
BAGHDAD, Oct 20: Arab League chief Amr Moussa, who has said Iraq is on the verge of civil war, held talks with Iraqi leaders on Thursday on a tough mission to promote national reconciliation in a country ravaged by violence....
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Bird flu vaccine sparks world interest
BUDAPEST, Oct 20: The United States, Britain and Russia have expressed interest in an experimental Hungarian vaccine against deadly bird flu after initial human tests proved promising, Hungary’s government said on Thursday....
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Arab states treat Ethiopians as slaves: IOM
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 20: Ethiopian women and girls who travel to the Middle East in search of work are often treated like slaves and abused sexually, the International Organisation for Migration (IMO) said....
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NSG defers decision on Indo-US deal
WASHINGTON, Oct 20: The 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group has put off action on a US proposal to modify its rules for allowing India to receive nuclear materials from member states for non-military use....
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Muslims in Croatian army allowed to practise religion
ZAGREB, Oct 20: The Croatian army has signed an agreement to make it easier for Muslims serving in the force to practice their religion, a Muslim community leader in the majority Roman Catholic country said on Thursday....
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Syria, Lebanon brace for UN report on Hariri’s death
BEIRUT, Oct 20: A UN investigator looked set to implicate senior Syrian and Lebanese officials in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri in a report he will submit in New York on Thursday....
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Tajikistan bans headscarf in schools
DUSHANBE, Oct 20: The use of the Islamic headscarf was banned on Thursday in schools and universities of the central Asian former Soviet republic of Tajikistan in order to prevent the spread of Islamic ideology, the education minister said....
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Lawmakers grill Rice over Iraq
WASHINGTON, Oct 20: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sought to reassure sceptical lawmakers on Wednesday the Bush administration had a plan for Iraq but faced strong criticism for not having a strategy to get troops home....
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Bush wants Abbas to act against militants
WASHINGTON, Oct 20: US President George W. Bush pressured Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday to do more to fight terrorism to advance a peace process he said may not create a Palestinian state for years....
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4 protesters shot dead in Bangladesh
KOMPANYGANJ, Oct 20: Four people were killed and four others on Thursday when police fired on up to 1,000 people protesting a slow probe into a jewellery store robbery in southern Bangladesh, officers said....
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Tories’ best chance of regaining power
LONDON: Question: what’s the difference between David Cameron (a contender for the Conservative party leadership) and Tony Blair? Answer: 13 years. Every upbeat, feel good word that Cameron utters, every media-savvy...
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A strange mix of the petty and the profound
LONDON: Haroon Rashid Aswat, wanted by the United States for plotting to set up a militant training camp, is due in the dock. But first there is the matter of one...
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Rightwingers in US not happy with Bush
WASHINGTON: President Bush is the most conservative president in modern times. He consciously modelled himself as the opposite of his father. A conservative revolt contributed to defeat of the elder Bush, who was fiercely attacked as a betrayer....
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Smugglers’ village on US border
SASABE (Mexico): For decades, residents of this Mexican desert village on the border with the United States baked bricks and ranched cattle to make a meagre living....
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China defends its ‘socialist’ democracy
BEIJING: China on Wednesday released a white paper arguing that it does practice democracy, even if not in a form understood elsewhere in the world. The Communist regime’s first white paper...
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The ‘clean’ should look within too
LONDON: The Corruption Perceptions Index published by the group, Transparency International, on Tuesday shows high degrees of corruption among developing nations. But banking systems in the West are helping make that possible....
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