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Electoral reform bill sparks Kuwait crisis
KUWAIT CITY, May 16: Kuwait plunged into a political crisis on Tuesday as opposition lawmakers appeared headed to quiz the prime minister following a controversial vote in parliament on an electoral reform bill....
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US to deploy 6,000 troops on border with Mexico
WASHINGTON, May 16: President George Bush on Monday declared the US-Mexico border was broken and he would deploy up to 6,000 National Guard troops there, but he said millions of illegal immigrants should be given a chance to become citizens....
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‘Romeo & Juliet’ saga in W. Bank
RAMALLAH, May 16: Jasmin Avissar and Osama Zatar fell in love, got married and hoped to live happily ever after — but she’s an Israeli Jew and he’s a Palestinian Muslim and now they have nowhere to call home....
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Jewels worth Rs100m stolen from India shop
HYDERABAD, May 16: Burglars stole diamonds and jewellery worth up to 100 million rupees (2.2 million dollars) in a well-planned heist in southern India, police said on Tuesday....
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Drought order in Britain
LONDON, May 16: Britain has issued its first drought order in 11 years, with suppliers likely to close the tap for all but essential uses of water in a bid to...
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SC calls for sending UN team to Sudan
UNITED NATIONS, May 16: The United Nations Security Council took a major step forward on Tuesday towards establishing a robust peacekeeping force in Sudan’s Darfur region....
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Abdullah asks media to exercise caution
RIYADH, May 16: Treading a fine line between liberals and conservatives in Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah has asked the media to refrain from printing objectionable pictures of Saudi women, local newspapers said on Tuesday....
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EU plans to offer reactor to Iran
BERLIN, May 16: The European Union’s three biggest powers plan to offer Iran a light-water nuclear reactor as part of a package of incentives if Tehran agrees to freeze its uranium enrichment programme, EU diplomats said on Tuesday....
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Lankan truce monitors call off work
COLOMBO, May 16: European truce monitors overseeing Sri Lanka’s deteriorating ceasefire said on Tuesday they had decided to suspend monitoring of sea activities in the LTTE-dominated north and east....
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US bans sale of arms to Venezuela
WASHINGTON, May 16: The United States on Monday imposed military sanctions on Venezuela, a main oil supplier, accusing President Hugo Chavez’s leftist government of failing to cooperate in the ‘war on terror’....
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A warning bell for British PM
LONDON: It was a race that could have been won. Should have been won. With a growing immigrant population, mixed income groups, blocks of public housing next to upscale new coffee...
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Lack of surprise greets word of US-Libya ties
CAIRO: The normalisation of US-Libya relations is a natural marriage of an American administration desperate for friends and oil in the Middle East and a government that needs to open its...
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Chavez – the left’s new hero
LONDON: Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s socialist president, remembers ‘with great affection’ the day he went to see Queen Elizabeth II in 2001. “There’s something I’ll never forget....
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Democracy has to wait in Egypt
LONDON: President Hosni Mubarak’s enforcers have a particular way of dealing with female demonstrators: they sexually humiliate them. The case of journalist Abir Al-Askari is but one example....
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