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Car bomb kills 25 in Iraqi town BAGHDAD, Oct 29: A car bomb killed at least 25 people in a small town northeast of Baghdad on Saturday, casting a shadow over political jockeying in the capital where parties have been negotiating alliances for the Dec 15 polls....		US govt urged not to deport Pakistanis WASHINGTON, Oct 29: As many as 34 members of the US Congress have asked President George Bush to grant the temporary protected status to Pakistanis living in the US and to urgently send more helicopters to the earthquake-hit areas....
Iran says it has no plan to hit Israel TEHRAN, Oct 29: Iran on Saturday slammed the UN Security Council condemnation of its president’s anti-Israeli remarks, which caused international outrage, but insisted there was no intention to attack the Jewish state....		Canada puts India’s N-reactor under ‘watch’ NEW DELHI, Oct 29: Canada has said it would closely watch India’s CIRUS nuclear reactor that it helped set up in 1954, to ascertain if it was declared as a military...
Natwar benefited from Iraq oil deal, says paper NEW DELHI, Oct 29: Indian Foreign Minister Kunwar Natwar Singh has been named by investigators as a beneficiary of the United Nations oil-for-food programme for Iraq, the Hindu newspaper reported on Saturday....		Syria accepts UN call for Hariri murder probe DAMASCUS, Oct 29: Faced with the threat of UN sanctions, Syria launched its own investigation on Saturday into the killing of Lebanon’s former prime minister Rafik al Hariri....
Annan asks governments to punish culprits in oil-for-food scam UNITED NATIONS, Oct 29: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Friday called upon member states to take action against illegal practices by companies under their jurisdiction and to prevent a recurrence of scandals like the one unearthed in Iraq’s oil-for-food programme....		US to shift 7,000 Marines from Japan WASHINGTON, Oct 29: The United States will remove 7,000 Marines from Okinawa in a major overhaul of American troops and bases in Japan under a US global plan to make its military more flexible, top officials said on Saturday....
‘I couldn’t help them’, recalls Delhi trader NEW DELHI, Oct 29: Bansi Lal, a shopkeeper in one of the New Delhi markets blown up on Saturday, tried his best to help the victims....		Mufti Sayeed resigns SRINAGAR, Oct 29: Occupied Kashmir Chief Minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed on Saturday quit his post in accordance with a power-sharing pact with the Congress party, which will now rule the region for the next three years, officials said....
Rumour sparks violence in Sri Lanka JAFFNA, Oct 29: Tension gripped the Sri Lankan town of Jaffna on Saturday after the army fired on supporters of the Tamil Tigers who took to the streets following rumours that soldiers had raped a Tamil girl....		DR Congo’s wealth brings misery to people LEGEND has it that their wealth has become a curse for them. People of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African country three times bigger than Pakistan, can be described as one of the most unfortunate nations on earth....
A formidable hawk goes down: Indictment of Cheney’s aide WASHINGTON: Losing I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, perhaps the most influential national security official without a formal cabinet rank, marks a serious blow to the George W....		Blood, sweat and fears in slums of Rio de Janeiro RIO DE JANEIRO: Glorinha rarely leaves her rickety wooden shack. But, sat in the shade of a towering banana tree that flanks her house in southern Rio de Janeiro, the 68-year-old still has memories to help her while away the days....
Million dollar bid for Lenin’s body MOSCOW: The head of the Russian Buddhist region of Kalmykia said on Friday he was willing to stump up $1 million to give a new home to the embalmed body of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin....		Venezuela declares itself illiteracy-free CARACAS: Venezuela has declared itself an illiteracy-free territory, announcing that 1.482 million adults have learned to read and write in the past two years, and that less than two per cent of the population of 26 million remains illiterate....