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Iran ready to accept cap on enrichment
UNITED NATIONS, May 27: Iran is willing to accept a cap on its uranium enrichment capability to ensure the fuel produced is not used to develop nuclear weapons, its ambassador to the United Nations said here on Friday.... 
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US Marines killed 24 Iraqis: probe
NEW YORK, May 27: US investigators are convinced that a Marine unit killed as many as 24 unarmed Iraqis, some of them ‘execution style in the Iraqi town of Haditha in...
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Kashmiris face poor crop, bad diet
LAMNIAN (Pakistan): Kashmiri villager Jamal Din Chaudry lost his dairy cow and his bullocks in last year’s earthquake, and now can only count his blessings as he prepares to sow maize on the terraced mountainside....
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Indonesian quake city: a centre of Javanese art
YOGYAKARTA (Indonesia): Yogyakarta, rocked on Saturday by a 6.2-magnitude earthquake, is one of Indonesia’s cultural pearls, a centre of fine Javanese arts and temples that bear witness to its rich ethnic and religious history....
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Climber left for dead on Everest found alive
SYDNEY, May 27: A veteran Australian mountaineer left for dead after collapsing on his descent from the summit of Mount Everest, has been found alive and brought back to base camp in ‘reasonably good’ condition, a colleague said on Saturday....
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Democracy in ME a must for US safety: Bush
WEST POINT, May 27: President George Bush, likening the war against Muslim radicals to the Cold War threat of communism, told US Military Academy graduates on Saturday that America’s safety depends...
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Killer quakes of last 100 years
HONG KONG, May 27: A powerful earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale struck the Indonesian island of Java on Saturday, killing more than 3,500 people....
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US House not to accept Senate immigration bill
WASHINGTON, May 27: The architect of the US House of Representative’s immigration enforcement bill on Friday rejected a plan to give millions of illegal immigrants a chance to earn US citizenship, warning the Senate of tough negotiations ahead....
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Hamas turns down Abbas deadline
GAZA, May 27: Hamas on Saturday rejected a deadline set by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to accept a plan that indirectly calls for recognition of Israel, which he has threatened to put to a referendum....
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Karzai’s nominee for CJ rejected
KABUL, May 27: Afghanistan’s parliament rejected on Saturday President Hamid Karzai’s nomination for the post of chief justice, a religious hardliner who has held the job for four years....
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AG talked of quitting over raid row: NYT
WASHINGTON, May 27: US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI director Robert Mueller threatened to quit this week if the White House ordered them to give back evidence seized in a...
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Buddhist temple undamaged
YOGYAKARTA, May 27: The Borobudur temple, the largest Buddhist monument on earth, was not affected by the powerful earthquake Saturday that left thousands dead, local officials said....
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Canadian PM to visit US
OTTAWA, May 27: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will visit the United States in July, according to an official announcement here on Saturday....
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US considering direct talks with Iran: paper
UNITED NATIONS, May 27: The Bush administration is debating whether to set aside a long-standing policy taboo and open direct talks with Iran to help avert a crisis over Tehran’s suspected...
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LTTE agrees to meet Lankan officials
COLOMBO, May 27: Tamil Tiger rebels on Saturday agreed to visit Norway next month and discuss the monitoring of a shaky ceasefire with the Sri Lankan government, a decision likely to...
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Basra begins to fall apart
BAGHDAD: Basra, in the south of Iraq, is beginning to splinter under increasing violence and sectarian divisions. Smuggling of oil on a large scale coupled with increasing violence and the lack...
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Israel: a winner again in US
AL QUDS: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert could not have asked or hoped for much more — surprisingly enthusiastic, if still qualified support from US President George Bush for his West Bank withdrawal plan....
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Dreaming big, more Afghan women studying in US
BRISTOL (Rhode Island): After fleeing the violence of Afghanistan a decade ago, Nadima Sahar now dreams of becoming the country’s first woman president....
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Hamas-run clinics fill breach after US-led blockade
NABLUS (West Bank): With medicine running low at the government-run Rafidia Hospital, a growing number of Palestinians make their way to a nearby mosque, one of the few places left in Nablus willing and able to fill prescriptions....
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US-led blockade
NABLUS (West Bank): With medicine running low at the government-run Rafidia Hospital, a growing number of Palestinians make their way to a nearby mosque, one of the few places left in Nablus willing and able to fill prescriptions....
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