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Iraqis accuse US of killing innocent villagers: 15 die in Baquba raids
BUSHAHEEN (Iraq), June 20: The US military said on Tuesday it had killed 15 ‘terrorists’ during overnight raids in farmland near the restive town of Baquba, but Iraqis insisted the dead were innocent poultry farm workers.... 
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Abbas asks militants to end attacks on Israel: Three children killed in air strike
RAMALLAH, June 20: Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas on Tuesday called upon militants to immediately halt rocket attacks, as Israel threatened to wage a tougher response to an upsurge in cross-border violence....
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Tokyo orders troops to leave Iraq
TOKYO, June 20: Japan on Tuesday ordered its 600 troops to leave Iraq, ending its first military mission since World War II to a country where fighting is under way....
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Saturated fats must be avoided, says study
WASHINGTON, June 20: Saturated fats should be less than one per cent of total calories even for healthy people, warns the American Heart Association. In its first official guidelines for minimising...
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Democrats to propose pullout
WASHINGTON, June 20: Senate Democrats prepared on Tuesday to introduce legislation that would pull US troops out of Iraq within one year’s time. “What was promised to the American people to...
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DPs face bleak future: UN
BO WATERSIDE (Liberia), June 20: UNCHR chief Antonio Guterres marked World Refugee Day by welcoming back civilians who fled Liberia’s civil war and urging the world to help millions across the planet heading home to a bleak future....
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West should not target Putin govt: aide
MOSCOW, June 20: Criticism of Russian democracy under President Vladimir Putin might backfire at a forthcoming summit with Mr Putin pointing the finger at other countries, a Kremlin aide warned on...
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Berlin Wall preservation plan unveiled
BERLIN, June 20: Berlin announced on Tuesday a 40-million-euro (50-million-dollar) drive to preserve the history of the despised Wall that divided the city for three decades during the Cold War....
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US to seek G8 backing on N-deal with India
BERLIN, June 20: The United States hopes a Group of Eight (G8) summit next month will issue a statement backing its heavily criticised nuclear deal with India, which continues to divide the group, senior G8 diplomats said....
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Washington’s drive to isolate Tehran on N-issue fails
LONDON: Bush administration officials like to describe Iran as a country isolated from the outside world. Its government’s policies, and especially its nuclear activities, have earned it the distrust of...
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Mahathir says world in throes of new conflict
KUALA LUMPUR, June 20: Former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad opened a peace forum in the Malaysian capital on Tuesday with an assertion that the world may be in the throes of a new global conflict....
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Arab govts silent on Guantanamo
BEIRUT: Arab leaders seem strangely reticent about Guantanamo, even after the deaths of three Arabs at the US prison camp stirred outrage around the world. Critics say some are wary of...
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Civilians turn to smugglers to escape Lanka war
TALAIMANNAR: Maduraweeran Kantharajah was so desperate to flee conflict between Sri Lanka’s government and Tamil Tiger rebels that he sold his furniture and wife’s jewellery to pay smugglers to sail his family to India....
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US campaigning to block Venezuela bid for UNSC
WASHINGTON: The US has launched a diplomatic campaign to block Venezuela’s bid to become a member of the United Nations Security Council out of concern that Hugo Chávez’s government would use its seat to try to block punitive measures against Iran....
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Europe doubts Israel’s claims
LONDON: Whatever the outcome of the current Palestinian chaos, meaningful negotiations with Israel seem unlikely. The most plausible scenario is that Ehud Olmert will proceed unilaterally to draw new boundaries...
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Africa and EU to hammer out migration strategy
RABAT: African states will call for more cash and cooperation when more than 60 ministers from Africa and the EU gather next month to forge a strategy to fight illegal migration, the conference’s chief organiser says....
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