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Missile lands near Peretz’s home
JERUSALEM, May 31: Israel carried out a fresh air strike and threatened more ground operations in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in a bid to halt Palestinian rockets, as a missile narrowly missed the defence minister’s home.... 
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Iraqi officials accuse US of killing civilians
SAMARRA, May 31: US forces denied on Wednesday a new accusation, from Iraqi officials, that American troops killed unarmed civilians in their home this month....
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Iraqi envoy says Marines shot dead his cousin
WASHINGTON, May 31: The new Iraqi ambassador to the United States on Tuesday accused US Marines of ‘intentionally’ killing a cousin in the Iraqi town of Haditha last year....
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Emergency in Basra
BASRA, May 31: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki declared on Wednesday a month-long state of emergency in the southern city of Basra, the scene of intra-Shia clashes, as the rest of...
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Indian doctors call off strike
NEW DELHI, May 31: Resident doctors in India’s capital bowed on Wednesday to a Supreme Court directive and ended a 20-day strike against higher college quotas for disadvantaged students “in the interest of patient care”....
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Saddam prosecutor on defensive over bribe claims
BAGHDAD, May 31: The chief prosecutor in the trial of Saddam Hussein over the mass killing of Shia villagers was forced to defend himself in court on Wednesday against accusations he had fabricated the case....
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Arrest of ‘terrorist’: Delhi court orders probe
NEW DELHI, May 31: The Delhi High Court has asked Central Board of Investigation (CBI) to probe against IB and Special Cell of Delhi police for falsely implicating one Moarif Qammar as terrorist....
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3 women held for plot against Pakistan
BERLIN, May 31: Three German women who converted to Islam have been apprehended in Germany for expressing the desire in internet chatrooms to stage suicide attacks in Iraq or Pakistan, local media reported on Wednesday....
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Eavesdropping: US judge seeks explanation
WASHINGTON, May 31: A federal judge has demanded the US government reveal if it monitored conversations between lawyers and their foreign clients who were detained as possible terror suspects....
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Sharon opened eyes during transfer: paper
JERUSALEM, May 31: Israel’s former prime minister Ariel Sharon, locked in a coma since early January, opened his eyes while being transferred to a long-term care facility at the weekend, a report said on Wednesday....
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Kashmir boat tragedy toll rises to 22
SRINAGAR, May 31: Divers pulled five more bodies from a lake in Indian Kashmir taking to 22 the number who died when a Indian navy boat carrying schoolchildren capsized, the army said on Wednesday....
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India in epic caste war
NEW DELHI: An epic battle is in progress in India over the issue of affirmative action in favour of socially disadvantaged groups, in particular those who belong to the lower castes in India’s notoriously hierarchical social order....
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EU ban on LTTE stokes war fears
COLOMBO: Fears for the resumption of war between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan government have mounted following declaration of the LTTE as the terrorist organization by the European Union....
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Taj Mahal’s city to get a facelift
NEW DELHI: Agra, home to the world’s most famous monument to love, is to be given a facelift to attract tourists to the ancient Indian city’s other two World Heritage sites, the Tourism Ministry said Wednesday....
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Maoist leader’s first public appearance
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s shadowy Maoist leader made his first public appearance in a decade at a meeting in a rural district, 200 kilometres southwest of the capital, a spokesman said on Wednesday....
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Car of kings Rolls back into India
MUMBAI: Rolls Royce, the preferred automobile of erstwhile maharajas, has opened its first dealership in India to position itself for the well-heeled consumers of a fast developing economy....
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Meat-eaters not allowed in housing estates
NEW DELHI: Meat eaters are being excluded from housing estates in Mumbai, long considered India’s most liberal city, because of their diets. Middle-class Indians from Gujarat and Rajasthan have been attracted...
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US forces kill 2 Iraqi women ‘by mistake’
BAGHDAD: A joint Iraqi-US security body said on Wednesday US forces had killed ‘by mistake’ two women who were en route to a maternity hospital north of Baghdad....
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