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EU to release aid to Palestinians
BRUSSELS, Feb 27: The European Union threw the Palestinians a short-term aid lifeline on Monday to help stave off imminent financial collapse, despite the appointment of a leader of the Islamist militant group Hamas as prime minister.... 
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New US-India draft to replace N-deal
WASHINGTON, Feb 27: Instead of endorsing the July 18 agreement for nuclear cooperation, the US and India are likely to sign a new document which will exclude some key elements of the previous deal, diplomatic sources told Dawn....
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Bush effigy burnt
SRINAGAR, Feb 27: Several thousand Shias on Monday held demonstrations for a fourth consecutive day in occupied Kashmir to protest at the bombing of two shrines in Iraq, witnesses said....
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Bush’s visit: Muslims call for strike in India
HYDERABAD, Feb 27: Muslim groups in a southern Indian city on Monday called for a daylong strike this week when US President George Bush visits, while communist groups vowed to hold a massive protest against the American leader....
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Ex-Taliban spokesman now a Yale student
WASHINGTON, Feb 27: A former spokesman for the Taliban, Rahmatullah Hashemi, has enrolled as a student at America’s prestigious Yale University where he has taken a class on terrorism, The New York Times Magazine reported on Sunday....
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World Court launches Bosnia genocide case
THE HAGUE, Feb 27: Bosnia accused Serbia and Montenegro of taking non-Serbs on a “path to hell” in the 1992-95 Bosnian war as the highest UN court launched its first hearings on Monday into state-sponsored genocide....
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US rejects UN rights proposal
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 27: The United States announced on Monday that it will vote against the proposed new UN Human Rights Council unless negotiations are reopened to address what it considers...
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US, Russia should abolish nukes, says Ahmadinejad
KUWAIT CITY, Feb 27: Iran would like the United States and Russia to abolish their nuclear weapons as they were a threat to Middle Eastern stability, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday....
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Army threatens to storm Afghan jail
KABUL, Feb 27: A standoff between security forces and hundreds of rioting inmates at Afghanistan’s main jail dragged into a second day on Monday, with the army threatening to storm a seized cell block if negotiations failed....
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BJP criticises Kashmir self-rule talk
NEW DELHI, Feb 27: India’s opposition parties paralysed parliament on Monday over Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s recent commitment to explore the idea of self-rule and autonomy for Kashmir....
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Zarqawi aide captured
BAGHDAD, Feb 27: Iraqi Interior Ministry forces have captured a senior aide to Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraqi state television said on Monday....
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Living in an uneasy neighbourhood: Kyrgyzstan
BISHKEK: As the only country in the world to provide bases both to Russian and US forces, balancing external relations was always going to be a delicate task for Kyrgyzstan....
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Africa struggles to spend Aids billions
WELAMASONGA (Tanzania): With billions of dollars pouring in to fight Africa’s HIV/Aids epidemic, Tanzanian Aids counsellor Gandencia Bazil has a simple request. “We need a bicycle,” said Bazil, who heads the...
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Desk jobs in a war zone
MOSUL (Iraq): Ruby Pierce was packed in body armour and a Kevlar helmet, ready for the 15-minute drive from the military landing strip to her new posting at Forward Operating Base Courage....
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Report upbraids Mexico’s conduct during ‘Dirty War’
MEXICO CITY: The Mexican government and military committed ‘crimes against humanity’ through a ‘scorched-earth’ campaign against rural guerillas in the 1970s, according to a draft report released on Sunday of the...
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Food is the ultimate show in Japan
TOKYO: On a quest for the “ultimate ingredients,” a team of food explorers from a hit television show here scaled mountains seeking the perfect mushroom and braved stormy seas off Alaska to catch extra-plump salmon....
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Faces forgotten as Korea’s war-torn families meet
SEOUL: Yoo Chang-sik gazes into a monitor in the North Korean capital but fails to recognize his sister on a video link from the South’s capital, just 220km away but separated by a fortified border for more than 50 years....
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Fickle rains play havoc with rural Morocco
SKOURA (Morocco): Near the bustling market in Skoura, a windswept town in the shadow of Morocco’s snow-capped High Atlas mountains, Ait Ali Oumer Mohammad ponders his future over a sugary mint tea....
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