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Clashes leave 52 dead in Lanka
COLOMBO, June 17: Fifty-two people were killed in Sri Lanka on Saturday as heavy sea and land battles erupted while Tamil Tiger rebels warned that the island would plunge in a ‘fatal war’ if the military kept up air strikes.... 
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Ethiopian troops cross into Somalia
JOWHAR (Somalia), June 17: About 300 Ethiopian troops crossed into Somalia on Saturday, a top Islamist said, after fighters who wrested control of Mogadishu moved inland toward the seat of Somalia’s interim government....
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US failure in Somalia
PARIS: Washington has been playing with fire in Somalia, where its support for a warlord alliance has ended up boosting Islamic militias which now hold the capital Mogadishu, analysts say....
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EU funding method not adequate: Abbas
CAIRO, June 17: Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said on Saturday a European Union funding mechanism for the cash-strapped Palestinians was ‘not adequate’ after a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo....
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N. Korea warned against missile launch
TOKYO, June 17: The United States and Japan warned North Korea on Saturday to drop plans for a long-range missile test, warning it would be ‘grave and provocative’....
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Guantanamo suicide: bodies sent home
RIYADH, June 17: The bodies of two Saudis found dead in their cells at the Guantanamo prison last week, arrived here on Saturday aboard a chartered plane....
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‘Black’ sweeps awards at Dubai festival
DUBAI, June 17: ‘Black’, a dark exploration of the life of a deaf-blind woman, swept the prizes at Bollywood’s top film festival hosted this year in Dubai....
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America’s problem is again a usurping king called George
WASHINGTON: Imagine a country with a different kind of monarch from the one we are used to. Forget the nation-binding human monarch whom Archbishop Rowan Williams praised so deftly this week....
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Universe is revealing its secrets, says Hawking
HONG KONG: Acclaimed British physicist Stephen Hawking has said that humanity is finally getting close to understanding the origin of the universe....
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Central Asia rediscovering its Muslim roots
Almaty: (Kazakhstan): In Soviet days, people walked past the Khoja Ahmed Yasawi mausoleum, a holy Muslim shrine in the steppe of southern Kazakhstan, and pretended it wasn’t there....
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Independent investigation undermines Israeli claim: Gaza beach killings
BEIT LAHIA: Heartrending pictures of 10-year-old Huda Ghalia running wildly along a Gaza beach crying “father, father, father” and then falling weeping beside his body turned the distraught girl into an...
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