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Taliban kill Turkish engineer, burn body
KABUL, April 2: Taliban gunmen shot dead a Turkish engineer in Afghanistan on Sunday in the second attack in a week on foreigners working on a road project in the west of the country, a provincial governor said.... 
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Japan calls China a military threat
TOKYO, April 2: Japan’s foreign minister on Sunday called China a military threat, while a top government spokesman rebuffed conciliatory gestures by Beijing over a controversial war shrine, in comments likely to heighten tensions between the two nations....
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Thais vote, but crisis likely to drag on
BANGKOK, April 2: Thais voted on Sunday in a general election that Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra called three years early to counter a protracted street campaign by anti-corruption protesters to kick him out....
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Russia supplies uranium to Indian N-plant
NEW DELHI, April 2: India has received an initial shipment of enriched uranium fuel from Russia for a nuclear power plant in the western state of Maharashtra, a report said on Sunday....
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Hamas vows to end chaos
GAZA CITY, April 2: Palestinian interior minister Said Siam vowed on Sunday that his Hamas-led government would put an end to armed chaos and impunity after three people were killed in clashes between rival militants....
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New Israeli govt
AL QUDS, April 2: Israel took its first steps towards forming a new government on Sunday widely expected to be led by interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who wants to set the country’s final borders with or without Palestinian agreement.—Reuters...
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Rice, Straw in Iraq to break govt deadlock
BAGHDAD, April 2: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Britain’s Jack Straw flew in secret into Baghdad on Sunday in a dramatic bid to break a deadlock over forming a unity government that can halt a slide to civil war....
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Saddam trial on genocide charge next month
BAGHDAD, April 2: Saddam Hussein is expected to face trial as early as next month on charges of ordering genocide against Iraq’s Kurdish population in the late 1980s, said a prosecutor and a court official....
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Beware Jack, there’s steel in her heart: Once more there is talk of WMDs
LONDON: Phase two of the Jack and Condi lifeswap looked like a slightly awkward fifth-form French exchange trip. Hecklers apart, the foreign secretary will be telling himself that Dr Rice’s Blackburn odyssey passed off pretty well....
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The true price of air travel
LONDON: Scarcely audible amid the storm of financial scandal last week was the sound of Labour overshooting its target on greenhouse gas emissions. The Climate Change review, a report on progress...
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US base plan faces resentment
NAGO (Japan): Sparkling white sand, a turquoise sea, kids catching sea urchins on a sunny day. Across Oura Bay from the pristine beach here on Japan’s southern island of Okinawa looms...
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Need to campaign for a new bill of rights
LONDON: New Labour presented itself as a modernising force in 1997. Modernising? Well, that’s a moot point. Nearly nine years on, what we can say — quite categorically — is that...
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