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Millions hold demos on May Day
MOSCOW, May 1: From rural mountainous Nepal to the industrial heartland of Germany, workers took to the streets around the world on Monday in largely peaceful May Day demonstrations for labour... 
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Seven killed in Sri Lanka violence
COLOMBO, May 1: A navy soldier and six civilians were killed on Monday and nine others seriously injured in three separate LTTE attacks in the northeast, the military said....
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Wife of Indian slain by Taliban attempts suicide
HYDERABAD, May 1: The grief-stricken wife of an Indian engineer beheaded by the Taliban attempted to commit suicide by drinking a bottle of insecticide on Monday....
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India retires Mig-25s
NEW DELHI, May 1: The Indian Air Force on Monday retired its four aging Mig-25 spy planes and said military satellites will take over the role of the Soviet-era aircraft, local media reported....
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Iranian shelling triggers exodus
SULAIMANIYAH (Iraq), May 1: Iranian forces shelled Kurdish rebel positions in Iraq for a second day on Monday, forcing dozens of Kurdish families to flee attacks Tehran would neither confirm nor deny, an Iraqi Kurdish official said....
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Ancient stone axe linked to Moenjodaro
NEW DELHI, May 1: A 3,500-year-old stone axe engraved with an ancient northern Indian script found in the country’s south could establish a closer historical link between the distinctive regions, an archaeologist said Monday....
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Bolivian govt nationalises oil, gas resources
LA PAZ, May 1: Bolivian troops took control of oilfields as President Evo Morales issued a formal decree nationalising the country’s oil and natural gas resources....
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Bush govt rejects call for decentralization: Democrats’ proposal on Iraq
WASHINGTON, May 1: Iraq should be divided into three largely autonomous regions with less central control to stop the country from tearing apart, a leading US Democrat proposed on Monday, but the White House rebuffed the idea....
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Dubai plans $27 billion resort
DUBAI, May 1: Dubai is planning to build the world’s largest hotel as part of a $27 billion resort project unveiled on Monday to spearhead the Gulf emirate’s drive to become a global tourism hub....
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Professor gets jail for aiding Jihad
MIAMI, May 1: An Arab-American former university professor was sentenced in Florida on Monday to 57 months in jail and deportation for conspiring to aid a Palestinian group designated as ‘terrorist’ by the United States....
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Palestinian crisis talks shelved
GAZA CITY, May 1: Power struggles between the Hamas government and Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas forced the delay on Monday of a cross-party conference seeking to tackle mounting political and fiscal crises....
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‘War on terror’ or war of terror?
If the war on terror is a plan to preserve and promote the values of the civilised world against barbarism, then nobody told Mohammed al-Kahtani. Since Kahtani has been incarcerated in...
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US-Russia chill revives Cold War memories
MOSCOW: Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev won a Nobel Peace Prize for helping thaw relations between Moscow and Washington. Now he is warning that the two countries could slide into a new Cold War....
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Iranians present world with new reality
VIENNA: The lesson to be drawn from the UN nuclear watchdog report on Iran is that Tehran feels there is a new reality freeing it to enrich uranium and defy UN inspections, analysts and diplomats told AFP....
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Hong Kong facing labour crunch
HONG KONG: Business is booming in China and Hong Kong for accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers, but for partner Dave McCann that’s a problem....
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Mubarak trying to put a lid on brewing chaos
CAIRO: The Egyptian regime — shaken yet again by terrorist bombs — appears to be lashing out in all directions in an attempt to put a lid on the brewing chaos....
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Tunisians overcome taboos
TUNIS: Tunisian technician Momo Battar says he has dated many women but that, without the Internet, he would never have found the woman of his dreams....
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Mig as souvenir
BEIJING: Most people decorate their offices with potted plants, portraits of their families or humorous desk tidies, but a businessman in China has splashed out on something that conveys an altogether more forceful corporate image: a Mig fighter plane....
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