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Pakistani among candidates for top UN job
OSLO, Jan 16: A Pakistani, a South African and a Norwegian are among tips to take over the UN’s top environmental job this year, battling for UN schemes to slow global warming and curb pollution, diplomatic sources said.... 
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Battle to save bird flu boy in Turkey
ANKARA, Jan 16: A Turkish hospital was battling on Monday to save a small boy stricken with bird flu, a day after his sister perished, as doctors warned people in the...
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Tehran bans CNN
TEHRAN, Jan 16: Iran on Monday banned CNN journalists from working there after the broadcaster misquoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Iran wanted nuclear weapons, the ISNA students news agency said....
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Africa gets first woman head of state
MONROVIA, Jan 16: Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf took the oath of office on Monday, becoming Africa’s first elected woman head of state in a country torn apart by 14 years of civil war....
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Bachelet to be Chile’s first woman president
SANTIAGO, Jan 16: Chile president-elect Michelle Bachelet, a Socialist who will be the country’s first female leader, vowed on Monday to shrink the gap between rich and poor that persists in...
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Attack on Iran must be an ‘option’: US senators’ insistence
WASHINGTON, Jan 16: Republican and Democratic senators said on Sunday the United States may ultimately have to undertake a military strike to deter Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, but that should be the last resort....
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Fraction of Iraq ballots cancelled
BAGHDAD, Jan 16: The body in charge of last month’s Iraqi elections announced on Monday it has cancelled a tiny number of ballots, paving the way for final but uncertified results to be issued later this week....
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Republican hints at move to impeach Bush
WASHINGTON, Jan 16: A top US Republican senator on Sunday for the first time mentioned impeachment in connection with President George W. Bush’s authorization of electronic surveillance inside the United States without a court warrant....
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India upset by Iranian official’s comments
NEW DELHI, Jan 16: India on Monday expressed ‘regret’ over comments made by Iran’s top nuclear negotiator that New Delhi received preferential international treatment on nuclear proliferation issues....
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Israel sends troops to quell ‘Jewish intifada’
AL KHALIL, Jan 16: Israel drafted hundreds of police reinforcements to the West Bank town of Al Khalil in a bid to quell what the press on Monday dubbed the Jewish intifada, sparked by plans to evacuate settlers....
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Nato faces a crisis of credibility over new Afghan deployment
LONDON: It Is old news that Nato has been searching for a role since the end of the cold war, and especially since its terrible divisions over Iraq....
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Sharon opens eyes, but ‘significance’ unclear
JERUSALEM, Jan 16: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon opened his eyes twice on Monday after family members played a tape of his grandson’s voice, aides said, raising hopes the 77-year-old stroke victim may be emerging from a coma....
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Women take hold on power the world over
PARIS: With the swearing-in of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as Liberian president and the weekend victory of Michelle Bachelet in Chile, a new generation of women are claiming a hold on power on all continents....
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US should quit Iraq: Cronkite
NEW YORK, Jan 16: Former veteran CBS Television anchor Walter Cronkite, whose 1968 conclusion that the Vietnam war was unwinnable influenced American public opinion, on Sunday advised the Bush administration to get out of Iraq now....
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US deflects criticism over human rights council
UNITED NATIONS: The Bush administration is defending itself against criticism that it has not followed through on promises to lead a vigorous campaign at the United Nations to establish an effective new human rights council to condemn rights abusers....
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India’s reforms set for rough ride
NEW DELHI: India’s economic reforms will face increasing opposition from the government’s communist allies in 2006, keeping a brake on the pace of change, and any compromises will hurt growth and investment, analysts say....
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Muslims seek a place on Russian flag
MOSCOW: A new dispute has erupted over demands by Muslim groups to remove Christian signs from the Russian flag and other national emblems. The new emblems were approved by the state...
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Katrina victims still struggling
NEW ORLEANS: The city nicknamed the “Big Easy” could now be dubbed the “Big Creepy.” For the handful of people living in hurricane-ravaged homes in the city’s most devastated sections, life...
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Mutaa marriage revival sparks debate in Iraq
NAJAF: She is a 49-year-old divorced mother of seven children. He is a well-off farmer, with his own wife and children. Theirs is a secret betrothal, with perfunctory vows exchanged alone in a bedroom for an ephemeral union....
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Rice says she doesn’t aspire to presidency
MONROVIA, Jan 16: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday she was flattered that US First Lady Laura Bush thought she would make a good president, but her response is still ‘thanks but no thanks’....
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