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Rice urges UN to take ‘strong steps’ against Iran
WASHINGTON, April 12: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged the UN Security Council on Wednesday to take ‘strong steps’ against Iran following Tehran’s assertion that it had enriched uranium.... 
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Talk of US strikes is ‘fantasy’: Rumsfeld
WASHINGTON, April 12: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Monday dismissed as ‘fantasyland’ reports that the Pentagon is planning military strikes against Iran....
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UN restricts contacts with Palestinian govt
UNITED NATIONS, April 12: The United Nations on Tuesday announced a restrictive policy on dealing with the Hamas-led Palestinian government, saying political contacts would now be decided on a case-by-case basis....
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Advani opposed freeing Azhar: UNI
NEW DELHI, April 12: India’s leading rightwing ideologue and former home minister Lal Kishan Advani had opposed his government’s decision to free the former Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar in bargain for...
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Jury hears tape of doomed 9/11 plane
ALEXANDRIA (USA), April 12: In the last minutes before United Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania field on Sept 11, 2001, a passenger urged others to help storm the cockpit and...
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Space probe enters Venus orbit
DARMSTADT (Germany), April 12: Europe’s first space probe to Venus slipped smoothly into orbit on Tuesday in a mission designed to send back data from a planet whose extreme atmosphere conceals important similarities with the Earth....
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26 killed in Iraq mosque bombing
BAQUBA, April 12: Twenty-six people were killed in a car bombing near a mosque in a restive area of Iraq on Wednesday, the latest in a wave of sectarian attacks plaguing the country....
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Arab states okay $80m for Hamas
RIYADH, April 12: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have pledged 80 million dollars in immediate aid to the Hamas-led Palestinian government, the Palestinian Authority finance minister Omar Abdelrazek said in a statement posted on Hamas website....
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Rajkumar death sparks violence in Bangalore
BANGALORE, April 12: Rajkumar, an icon of south Indian cinema and star of more than 200 films, died on Wednesday, sparking widespread violence as distraught fans torched buses and ripped hoardings in Bangalore....
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Sri Lanka blast claims 16 lives
COLOMBO, April 12: A bomb ripped through a vegetable market in northeastern Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing 16 people in the latest of a series of blasts which raised serious doubts over upcoming peace talks....
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Afghanistan facing disaster: report
WASHINGTON: The insurgency in Afghanistan is growing and is threatening to further destabilize a country already suffering from the consequences of decades of war and internal strife, warns a US think-tank....
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Rocky times ahead for Nepal: ‘Atmosphere of compromise’ missing
KATHMANDU: With opposition parties and Maoist rebels calling for the continuation of anti-royal protests, Nepal faces its most dire crisis since the king assumed absolute control 14 months ago, analysts say....
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Rajapakse under pressure to be tough with LTTE
COLOMBO: President Mahinda Rajapakse is under pressure from his two coalition partners to take a tough stand against Tamil Tigers when the government delegation resumes the second round of talks on April 19....
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BJP turns against nuclear deal
NEW DELHI: Former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has personally initiated a rethink in BJP policy on the Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement, with a decision now being taken to pressure the...
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‘Umrao Jaan’ is no remake: director
LUCKNOW: Bollywood movie director J.P. Dutta has made a movie of the classic story Umrao Jaan about a woman kidnapped and sold into a brothel _ but insists it’s no remake of the famous film made 25 years ago....
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Salman sleeps on mat in cell
JAIPUR: “I have no problem, I’m all right,” Salman Khan told the jail authorities when they visited his cell on Tuesday morning after the filmstar spent a night in prison....
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