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Karachi project cited in UN report: Slum clearance
GENEVA, June 1: The international community must stop turning a blind eye to a wave of forced evictions of shanty-town dwellers around the world caused by prestige construction projects, a United Nations human rights monitor said on Thursday.... 
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Blast kills 12 Indian troops
NEW DELHI, June 1: Twelve paramilitary troops were killed in a land mine attack as they returned after defusing bombs in eastern India, where Maoist rebels have a strong presence, police said on Thursday....
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Storms kill 36 in India, wreak havoc in Mumbai
MUMBAI, June 1: Lightning storms and monsoon rains lashing parts of India have killed 36 people and wrought havoc in Mumbai....
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Al Qaeda making inroads into Ramadi: US
BAGHDAD, June 1: Al Qaeda is taking advantage of sectarian differences to make inroads in Ramadi, and the US military is ‘very concerned’ about the situation, a spokesman said on Thursday....
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Spanish court quashes 9/11 verdict
MADRID, June 1: Spain’s supreme court on Thursday quashed the conviction of Syrian Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas for ‘conspiracy’ in the September 2001 attacks in the United States, for which he was sentenced in September last year....
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Blix warns against bid to remove Iran govt
UNITED NATIONS, June 1: The former chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq, Hans Blix, warned on Thursday against any military attempt at ‘regime change’ to resolve the nuclear crises surrounding Iran and North Korea....
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US troops to get ethics training: Americans don’t respect Iraqis: PM
BAGHDAD, June 1: US forces in Iraq are to receive extra training to promote legal and ethical behaviour, the military said on Thursday, amid a mounting controversy over alleged killings by US Marines in Haditha last year....
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Spy agency admits lapse in CIA arrest case
BERLIN, June 1: Germany’s scandal-plagued spy agency admitted on Thursday that one of its staff knew but did not report that a German citizen had been seized abroad and handed to the CIA as a terrorist suspect....
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Indonesia quake toll over 6,200
JAKARTA, June 1: The death toll from the earthquake that rocked Indonesia’s main island of Java at the weekend has risen to at least 6,234, the social affairs ministry said on Thursday....
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US rejects N.Korea’s invitation
WASHINGTON, June 1: The White House on Thursday rejected an invitation from North Korea for the chief US envoy to stalled nuclear talks to visit Pyongyang....
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The wages of chaos in Somalia
THE guns of Mogadishu are seldom silent. Since Somalia’s last functioning government fell in 1991, the sound of militiamen clearing their weapons by firing into the air has become as common as the muezzin’s call to prayer....
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Kurds join in, with an eye on independence
ARBIL: Sipping tea at a café in Arbil, Moayed Rafiq, 25, watches news of a car bombing in Baghdad on an Arab television channel. Others around him also watch, quietly....
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Farmers choose death in India’s booming economy
DAHEGAON (India): In the searing summer heat of India’s vast western plateau, Pramod Khandale’s lifeless body hung from a tree for four days, bloated and rotting, before his neighbours spotted it....
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How soccer began? Museum traces roots
HAMBURG (Germany): Who really invented soccer — Native Americans? South American Indians? Was it Mexicans, Florentines, Chinese, Japanese or Eskimos?...
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Arctic: from greenhouse to icehouse
PARIS: Dramatic shifts in Earth’s climate system drove the sea at the North Pole from sub-tropical temperatures to icy chill in the relatively brief span of 10 million years, a series of studies published on Thursday says....
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Blair angers Brazilians
RELATIONS between Britain and Brazil have struck a new low after a careless slip by British Pime Minister, Tony Blair, during a major foreign policy speech in Washington last week....
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