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Left rejects Chirac’s call for dialogue
PARIS, April 1: France’s left-wing parties on Saturday rejected President Jacques Chirac’s call for dialogue, reaffirming their plans to march next week against a youth job law they insist the government should withdraw.... 
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Reid fears Taliban comeback
COPENHAGEN, April 1: British Defence Minister John Reid warned on Friday that Afghanistan faced the danger that the ousted Taliban and ‘terrorists’ might stage a comeback....
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Fatah defies Haniyeh’s plea to stop fighting
GAZA, April 1: Fighters from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement fired off guns in a show of force in Gaza on Saturday, defying orders from Prime Minister and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh to stay off the streets....
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Abdullah plans gradual reform
RIYADH, April 1: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia on Saturday vowed gradual reform to bring his country closer to the rest of the world without violating the principles of Islam....
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Riyadh to begin trial of militants soon: Naif
RIYADH, April 1: The Saudi government will put several militants on trial soon, Interior Minister Prince Naif said in an interview with a newspaper on Friday....
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India to fence border with Bangladesh
GUWAHATI, April 1: India will completely fence its borders with Bangladesh and deploy more troops to prevent illegal immigrants sneaking into north-eastern states, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Saturday....
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Maoist insurgency
NEW DELHI, April 1: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will chair a meeting on April 13 of top officials of states hit by bloody Maoist attacks in renewed efforts to stem the rebellion, officials said on Friday....
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Straw terms Cuban jail an anomaly
BLACKBURN, April 1: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, stressing the United States does not intend to be the ‘world’s jailer’, said on Saturday Washington was ready to close its Guantanamo...
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US troops told not to use own armour
WASHINGTON, April 1: The US Army said on Friday soldiers can only use body armour provided by the Pentagon even though some have bought their own because they felt what the military provided was insufficient....
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Saddam ouster was not a mistake: Rice
BLACKBURN, April 1: The United States has made mistakes in Iraq, but it was not a mistake to overthrow Saddam Hussein or ‘unleash the forces of democracy in the Middle East’,...
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Border security, migration dominate N. American summit
CANCUN (Mexico), April 1: Border security and migration on Friday dominated a US-Mexico-Canada summit amid an intense debate in Washington and on US streets about countering illegal immigration....
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Security worries impede Afghan recovery
KABUL: Natural resources, agri-business and power generation are the bricks with which to rebuild Afghanistan’s broken economy but security risks in the country are a major obstacle to investment outside of aid plans, Central Bank Governor Noorullah Delawari says....
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Elections to test elections in Thailand
BANGKOK: When Thais go to the polls on Sunday, they will be doing more than endorsing candidates in a snap parliamentary election. Their ballots will attest how much faith this country...
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Lights return but spark missing in Nepal
KATHMANDU: Authorities have ended nightly power cuts in Nepal’s capital so they can smother an opposition general strike next week that movement leaders insist could trigger an end to palace rule if it was buttressed with more international pressure....
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Palestinians fear Olmert will jail them for good QALANDIYA: “Israel is going to enter the Guinness Book of Records for having built the world’s biggest prison,” laments Abed Yabrud, waiting his turn to cross the Qalandiya military checkpoint....
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Wealth gap soaring in Britain
LONDON: Twenty years ago Britain was one of the most equal countries in the developed world. Today it is one of the most unequal. It is a transformation that has been...
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