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‘Insurgent groups’ to be offered talks: Iraqi PM finalises reconciliation plan
BAGHDAD, June 24: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will offer an amnesty to some guerilla groups and call for the disarmament of militias as part of a 28-point national reconciliation plan to stem violence, a lawmaker said on Saturday.... 
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14 Saudis released from Guantanamo
WASHINGTON, June 24: Fourteen Saudi Arabian nationals in US custody at the Guantanamo Bay prison for foreign terrorism suspects have been sent home, the Pentagon said on Saturday....
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40 Al Qaeda men held in S. Arabia
RIYADH, June 24: The Saudi government said on Saturday it had arrested 40 members of the Al Qaeda network in raids across the country....
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Rahman’s remains returned to BD
DHAKA, June 24: Thirty-five years ago, Matiur Rahman, an air force officer from former East Pakistan, tried to defect in his military jet from Karachi to join the guerillas fighting the Pakistan Army in his homeland....
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US Senate votes to isolate Hamas govt
WASHINGTON, June 24: The US Senate on Friday adopted by consensus a bill to isolate the Hamas-led Palestinian government, forbidding any US aid until it recognises Israel....
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Army officials under probe in India
NEW DELHI, June 24: India’s top investigating agency has raided homes across the country of senior defence officials suspected of leaking classified military information, a statement said on Saturday....
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Turkish FM offers to ‘facilitate’ Iran talks
ANKARA, June 24: Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul flew Saturday to Tehran to offer himself as a “facilitator” in resolving the controversy over Iranian nuclear plans, saying he was acting as representative of a friend and neighbour of Iran....
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Deadline in visa case
NEW YORK, June 24: The Bush administration was given a three-month deadline on Friday to rule on a visa application of a prominent Muslim intellectual, Tariq Ramadan, by a federal judge in New York....
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4 killed in shootout
LUCKNOW, June 24: Four people were killed and three injured when two rival groups opened fire at each other on Saturday outside a court in Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh....
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Two Lankan troops killed
COLOMBO, June 24: Two soldiers of the Sri Lankan army were shot dead in Vavuniya district while on a patrol. In a statement a military spokesman said the Tamil Tigers had carried out the attack.,...
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Unpaid wages forcing expatriates to commit suicide in UAE
DUBAI: Construction worker B. Lal arrived in the affluent city of Dubai more than a year ago, hoping to end the grinding poverty of his family in India....
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China experiencing organic farming boom
BEIJING: For a country so enamoured of biotechnology and a recognised leader in genetically modified crops research, China is experiencing an organic farming boom. While the surge is mainly fuelled by...
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Guantanamo has become a nightmare for Bush
WASHINGTON: On January 10 2002, a US military cargo plane landed at a US naval base in southeastern Cuba after a 27-hour flight from Afghanistan with 20 men aboard, shackled, handcuffed and blinded by blacked-out safety goggles....
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Kuwaiti women breaking taboos
KUWAIT: Kuwaiti women competing for the first time in a general election are shattering social taboos and campaigning in the uncharted territory of the all-male “diwaniya”, the Persian Gulf state’s version of a gentlemen’s club....
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British raise army in Desert of Death
CAMP TOMBSTONE (Afgh-anistan): The British officer grins with pride as he tells of building an army from scratch in the Desert of Death....
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Iran seeks ties with Venezuela
TEHRAN: Iran is pursuing increased political and economic cooperation with Venezuela and Sudan as part of a series of calculated foreign policy moves that looks certain to exacerbate an already tense stand-off with the Bush administration....
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Cervical cancer surgery allows for pregnancy
NEW YORK: An operation called radical vaginal trachelectomy is an effective treatment for early cervical cancer that allows women to become pregnant later on, according to a report in the medical journal BJOG....
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