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Opposition presses German FM to resign: Secret agents in Iraq
BERLIN, Jan 14: German opposition politicians stepped up pressure on Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Saturday, saying he should resign if German secret agents were shown to have helped the United States in its invasion of Iraq.... 
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Russia, Ukraine in fresh controversy
MOSCOW, Jan 14: Russia’s naval command on Saturday ordered its Black Sea fleet to negotiate the return to Moscow’s control of a Crimean peninsula lighthouse claimed by Ukraine — the object of the latest clash between the rival neighbours....
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US failure in Iraq to benefit Iran
LONDON: In March 2003, before US troops reached Baghdad, Middle East scholar Volker Perthes wrote that while the risks of this illegitimate war were enormous, those of a US failure to stabilise post-war Iraq would be even higher....
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Russia gas row fires up N-debate in Europe
LONDON: Nuclear power is winning new friends in Europe after Russia’s fight with Ukraine over gas prices hit fuel supplies to the EU and triggered an energy policy re-think....
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Israel ready with plan to attack Iran?
OCCUPIED AL QUDS: Israel has drawn up plans for strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities with bunker busting bombs supplied by the US, but analysts say it has no intention of carrying them through while diplomatic pressure is growing on Tehran....
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A stroke affects a region
OCCUPIED AL QUDS: For a full week, Israel’s usually garrulous, confrontational politicians have been declaring on radio and TV that now is not the time to talk politics....
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Army turns out to be a uniting factor in Bosnia
BANJA LUKA: An army has ceased to exist, another is born, and with it, hope. From the beginning of this year, the army of the Republic of Srpska, the Serb entity in Bosnia-Herzegovina, ceased to exist....
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Polish turmoil likely to have spillover effect in C. Europe
WARSAW: Renewed political turmoil in Poland, which could end up with populist, anti-market parties joining the government, is a taste of things to come as elections loom across ex-communist “New Europe”....
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Bias towards boys is unbalancing Asia
LONDON: Counting up the numbers of boys and girls in a country has never been so troublesome. On Monday the medical journal the Lancet published a report estimating that prenatal selection...
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US pullout to begin ‘soon’: Murtha
WASHINGTON, Jan 14: A veteran US congressman who set off a firestorm in November by calling for a quick American withdrawal from Iraq is now predicting ‘the vast majority’ of US...
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15 Myanmar troops killed in clash with Nagas
GUWAHATI, Jan 14: Fifteen Myanmar soldiers and six Indian insurgents died and dozens were seriously wounded in heavy fighting to evict the Naga rebels, a separatist leader said on Saturday....
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Khaddam to set up govt in exile: mag
BERLIN, Jan 14: Syria’s former vice president Abdel Halim Khaddam said he was preparing a government in exile as he is convinced that Syrian President Bashar al Assad will be forced...
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Kidnapped reporter freed by chance
BAGHDAD, Jan 14: A British journalist kidnapped in Iraq last month revealed details on Saturday of how he was captured and then freed during a chance raid by US forces....
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Arundhati Roy turns down literary award
NEW DELHI, Jan 14: Novelist Arundhati Roy has turned down a national award from India’s academy of letters because she opposes the government’s policies, the Press Trust of India reported....
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Nepal blasts kill 14 policemen
KATHMANDU, Jan 14: Fourteen policemen were killed in separate bomb attacks by suspected Maoist rebels on the outskirts of the Nepalese capital, police said on Saturday....
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Ex-Taliban commander killed
KANDAHAR, Jan 14: A suspected suicide car bomber slightly damaged a US military vehicle in insurgency-hit southern Afghanistan, an official said on Saturday, as gunmen shot dead a former Taliban commander....
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BD national shot dead by BSF
DHAKA, Jan 14: The Indian Border Security Force shot dead a Bangladeshi youth and kidnapped five others in different incidents on Saturday and Friday....
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Sunnis may get 20pc of seats
BAGHDAD, Jan 14: An almost final tally on Saturday confirmed Iraq’s Sunni parties would win a fifth of the seats contested for in the Dec 15 parliamentary...
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