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Parliament to be dissolved Maoists to join govt in Nepal
KATHMANDU, June 16: Nepal’s government and the country’s Maoist rebels said on Friday they had reached an agreement aimed at ending a decade-long insurgency after a day of unprecedented meetings between the two sides....
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Tehran terms nuclear offer a step forward
SHANGHAI, June 16: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday the international incentive proposal to curtail his nation’s nuclear programme was a “step forward” that would be carefully considered....
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Ahmadinejad for Holocaust probe
SHANGHAI, June 16: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has previously called for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map’, said here on Friday there needed to be an independent investigation into the Holocaust....
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Militants oppose Hamas truce offer
GAZA, June 16: Hamas militants distanced themselves on Friday from a ceasefire offer that the Palestinian government made to Israel, while other armed groups also spurned the proposal....
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Sunglasses confound Bush
WASHINGTON, June 16: US President George Bush committed a faux pas at his latest press conference when he asked a legally blind reporter whether he was going to ask a question while wearing sunglasses.Mr...
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Lankan mly bombs LTTE positions
COLOMBO, June 16: The Sri Lankan military pounded Tamil Tiger positions in the northern and eastern parts of the country by land, sea and air for a second day on Friday...
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Congress advised to okay India deal
WASHINGTON, June 16: A top US Senator warned Congress on Friday against rejecting a nuclear accord with India as lawmakers move closer to making a decision on the controversial accord after lengthy debate....
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Digital TV pact
GENEVA, June 16: More than 100 countries across Europe, Africa and the Middle East pledged on Friday to switch to digital audio and television broadcasting in a plan marking ‘the beginning of the end’ for analogue services in the region....
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HR experts call on US to close Guantanamo
UNITED NATIONS, June 16: Five independent United Nations human rights experts on Wednesday called upon the United States to immediately close the Guantánamo Bay detention centre following three suicides there, citing...
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US embassy shift deferred
WASHINGTON, June 16: President George Bush announced on Thursday that he was deferring for six months the process of moving the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem....
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Palestinian aid accord in sight: EU
BRUSSELS, June 16: The European Union agreed on Friday on an aid scheme for Palestinians bypassing the Hamas-led government and said it was close to winning the backing of the United States and other Middle East peace brokers....
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Iraqi govt to take over security in south this month
BAGHDAD, June 16: A top government official said on Friday that Iraq has an agreement to take over security responsibilities from foreign forces in southern Iraq this month....
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The past comes to haunt the US : Echo of Japanese internment
WASHINGTON: “What will they do to us if there is another attack? Will they intern us like they interned the Japanese?” That is the single most common question...
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Stay the course?
WASHINGTON: Fresh from his triumphal visit to Baghdad — a place so dangerous he had to sneak in without even telling the Iraqi prime minister — George W....
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Villepin faces another setback
PARIS: Nicknamed ‘Zorro’ by his friends and ‘Nero’ by his enemies, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin is looking increasingly like a ‘zero’ in France’s troubled political landscape....
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The battle for Cairo is vital
CAIRO: I am writing at the end of a week in the Arab world’s New York. Ferocious daytime temperatures turn Cairo into a 24-hour city. Cafes, bars and restaurants stay open long after midnight in the merciful cool....
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Blair: to socialism and back
LONDON: “The right wing of the party is politically bankrupt,” while the government is ‘increasingly given over to the worst of petty bourgeois sentiments’, among them ‘rigid populism’....
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