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US grooming India as a junior partner: think-tank
WASHINGTON, June 10: The United States is grooming India into a junior partner to balance China’s influence in the Indian Ocean region and to keep a check on a ‘recalcitrant’ Pakistan, says a US think-tank.... 
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China seeks role in talks on Iran
BERLIN, June 10: China wants a place at the negotiating table in talks on proposals between the Western powers and Iran on Tehran’s nuclear programme, the German weekly Der Spiegel says in its edition dated Monday....
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Israeli killing of civilians draws world censure
AMMAN, June 10: Israel faced international condemnation on Saturday over the death of seven Palestinians, including three children, killed by shellfire on a Gaza beach....
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Iraq bill deletes US military base prohibition
WASHINGTON, June 10: Congres-sional Republicans killed a provision in an Iraq war funding bill that would have put the United States on record against the permanent basing of US military facilities...
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Poet designs ‘seeing machine’
CAMBRIDGE, June 10: A legally blind poet at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has designed a ‘seeing machine’ that allows people with limited vision to see faces of friends, read or study the layouts of buildings they intend to visit....
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US House raps Riyadh in aid bill
WASHINGTON, June 10: The US House of Representatives on Friday took a symbolic jab at Saudi Arabia, accusing the country of fuelling religious extremism and violence, as it passed a $21.3...
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UN urges states to cooperate on migration
UNITED NATIONS, June 10: Calling for cooperation among governments over the migration issue, a senior UN official said on Friday that it was important for governments to understand that both sending...
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Israeli army regrets killing
JERUSALEM, June 10: Israel’s army chief expressed regret on Saturday for the killing of eight Palestinian civilians in Gaza, but stopped short of taking responsibility for the incident....
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AL barred from besieging Dhaka
DHAKA, June 10: The High Court of Bangladesh on Saturday slapped a temporary injunction on the Awami League-led opposition alliance’s ‘Dhaka siege’ scheduled for Sunday to pressure the government over its demand for electoral reforms....
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US-India N-deal a headache for Japan
TOKYO: A controversial agreement on nuclear energy between Washington and Delhi is proving to be a diplomatic headache for Japan, say analysts here. “There is a lot at stake for Japan...
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The West’s view of the rise of India and China is a self-affirming fiction
LONDON: In the mid-19th century Karl Marx claimed that European colonisers, though corrupt and violent, were the “unconscious tool of history” that would propel India and China into modernity....
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Peacekeepers tread a thin line in Darfur
KUTUM: For African Union forces in violent Darfur, life is tough. They tread a thin line between suspicious parties to the conflict, salaries are paid late, and they live in one of the world’s harshest climates....
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Cyprus vetoes move to revive Turkey-EU talks
BRUSSELS: Talks between Turkey and the EU over Ankara’s entry to the world’s biggest trading bloc have headed for collapse after Cyprus torpedoed a deal to kick-start the stalled negotiations....
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Kalam urges scientists to shed feeling of inferiority
NEW DELHI: The Indian mind is as good as any western mind and it has no reason to suffer from an inferiority complex, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam chided young defence scientists this week....
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Orthodox Jewish women in a fix
TEL AVIV: To wear them or not to wear them? That is the question for ultra-Orthodox Jewish women caught in a dilemma after the wigs that many of them wear to...
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Spain facing worst drought
MADRID: Spain’s reservoirs are in a worse state than last year as the country heads for what some experts are predicting will be the worst drought for 60 years....
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