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Tehran ready to export N-expertise: Khamenei: Severing of ties with IAEA threatened
TEHRAN, April 25: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that his government was ready to share its nuclear technology with other countries.... 
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West hasn’t tackled Iran issue with prudence
LONDON: As Mohamed ElBaradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency submits his report to the UN Security Council on Iran this week, it is time to consider how to end the impasse over Iran’s nuclear activities....
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Bush orders inquiry into petrol prices
WASHINGTON, April 25: President George Bush on Tuesday ordered an investigation into possible petrol price cheating and measures to improve supply to an American public that is increasingly angry over sky-high fuel costs....
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Iranian MPs oppose women in stadiums
TEHRAN, April 25: Several Iranian hardline MPs were up in arms on Tuesday over a decision by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to end a long-standing ban on women in stadiums....
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Delhi’s stand not to scuttle deal: envoy
WASHINGTON, April 25: India’s refusal to accept a provision barring it from conducting atomic tests in a civilian nuclear agreement with the United States is unlikely to scuttle the landmark deal, a US official said on Monday....
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Israeli satellite to spy on Iran
JERUSALEM, April 25: Israel put a new spy satellite into service from Russia on Tuesday which will increase the levels of surveillance of Iran’s nuclear programme....
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Hamas men held over anti-Jordan plot
AMMAN, April 25: Jordan on Tuesday announced the arrest of members of the Hamas who it said received orders from a leader based in Syria to carry out attacks on officials in the Amman government....
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Lankan mly bombs LTTE bases
TRINCOMALEE, April 25: The Sri Lankan army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam exchanged artillery fire on Tuesday after the air force bombed the LTTE’s bases in Trincomalee in the...
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Action sought against US professor
NEW YORK, April 25: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) on Monday called on the Michigan State University (MSU) to take ‘appropriate disciplinary action’ against a professor who sent hate mail to Muslim students....
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India praises Nepal resistance
NEW DELHI, April 25: India rowed back on Tuesday from its support of King Gyanendra’s offer of limited support to Nepal’s seven-party democratic alliance proclaiming that the future is now safe in the people’s hands....
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Rich-poor showdown
UNITED NATIONS, April 25: A showdown between the envoys of the rich nations and the representatives of poor countries at the United Nations fifth committee, which deals with budgetary questions, could...
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Abuse found at Iraqi jails: Pentagon
WASHINGTON, April 25: Iraqi and US inspectors have found more cases of physical abuse of prisoners at facilities run by the interior ministry, a Pentagon spokesman said on Monday....
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Bush’s rating at record low
WASHINGTON, April 25: US President George Bush’s public approval rating has fallen to 32 per cent, a new low for his presidency, a CNN poll showed on Monday....
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A genuine revolution under way in Nepal
LONDON: There is something refreshingly old-fashioned taking place in the Himalayan kingdom of Nepal: a genuine revolution. In recognition of this, the US has told citizens except for “essential diplomats” to leave the country, usually a good sign....
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Mubarak’s son catches limelight
CAIRO: Egyptian writer Ahmed Fekri is so convinced President Hosni Mubarak will step down soon that he has drafted a resignation speech for the long-time leader....
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1,000 Iraqis at risk of nuclear contamination: IAEA
VIENNA: More than 1,000 Iraqis who live south of Baghdad within the bombed complex that was once the centre of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear programme are at acute risk of radioactive poisoning, the United Nation’s nuclear authority says....
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Algerians, French move to cool tempers
ALGIERS: Dishonourable. Indecent. Scandalous. As French-Algerian rows go, the latest war of words — over a visit to France by President Abdelaziz Bouteflika — has been more virulent than many of its predecessors....
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Redeployment of US troops
TOKYO: After weeks of stalled negotiations, Japan has agreed to pay almost 60% of the cost of transferring thousands of US marines from Okinawa to Guam in a move designed to...
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