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Israel not to let Abbas out of Gaza Strip: ‘Total closure’ clamped
JERUSALEM, June 27: Israel will not allow Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to leave the Gaza Strip, part of the closure clamped on the territory after the abduction of an Israeli soldier, military officials said on Tuesday....
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Secret services helped CIA transfer suspects: Council of Europe report
STRASBOURG, June 27: European secret services colluded in the detention and secret transfer of terrorist suspects in or across the continent, the author of a key report on the CIA rendition flights said Tuesday....
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Iran says ‘no use’ negotiating with US
TEHRAN, June 27: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday Tehran saw ‘no use’ in negotiating with the United States, and again signalled the country was unwilling to freeze sensitive nuclear work....
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Drug problem easing: UN
UNITED NATIONS, June 27: A new UN report warned on Monday cocaine consumption in western Europe is reaching alarming levels while opium production in Afghanistan could rise again this year....
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Iraq govt frees 450 detainees
ABU GHRAIB, June 27: About 450 detainees were released from Iraqi and US-run prisons on Tuesday under a reconciliation plan aimed at bringing guerillas into the political process and ending the deadly tide of bloodshed in Iraq....
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Scrawled threat sparks port scare
LOS ANGELES, June 27: A bomb threat against President George W. Bush and his ‘Jewish gang’ scrawled in a cargo ship prompted authorities to shut down part of a major California...
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Sleep loss, air conditioning ‘cause obesity’
NEW YORK, June 27: ‘Super-sized’ fast food meals and TV time shouldn’t take all the blame for the US obesity problem, according to a research review published on Tuesday....
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Saddam’s trial for genocide on Aug 21
BAGHDAD, June 27: The trial of former Iraqi leader ` Hussein on charges including genocide for a brutal campaign against Kurds in the 1980s that left 100,000 people dead was set on Tuesday for August 21....
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Passive smoking can kill: expert
WASHINGTON, June 27: Second-hand smoking is a serious health hazard that can kill children and non-smoking adults, the US Surgeon General warned in a report published on Tuesday....
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4 US troops killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, June 27: A US Marine and two soldiers were killed in separate attacks on Tuesday west and south of Baghdad, while a third soldier died the day before, the military said....
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Tamil Tiger leader regrets Rajiv’s slaying
NEW DELHI, June 27: A Sri Lankan Tamil Tiger rebel leader expressed regret on Tuesday over the 1991 assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, in an interview aired on Indian television....
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Russia-Ukraine gas row threatens European supplies
LONDON: Europe could be heading for a new energy crisis as Russia and Ukraine trade blows in an escalating price war that threatens to trigger a re-run of January’s cuts in Russian gas exports to the continent....
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Thai dam casts long shadow over Asia’s water wars
PAK MUN RIVER (Thailand): Mekong fish don’t jump. It was one of the many hard lessons learned at Thailand’s Pak Mun Dam, a minnow as dams go, but it casts a long and costly shadow over Asia’s water wars....
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Hyderabad Nizam loses court battle against wife
NEW DELHI: A former Miss Turkey has won a maintenance and compensation package worth millions of rupees from her former husband, an Indian prince whose grandfather, the last ruling Nizam of...
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Ahmadinejad — the new bogeyman of America
TEHRAN: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the latest in a long line of American bogeymen: Libya’s Colonel Qadhafi, Panama’s Manuel Noriega, Serbia’s Slobodan Milosevic, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida’s Osama bin Laden, to name a few....
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Canadian PM says sorry to Chinese immigrants OTTAWA: Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, apologised to Chinese Canadians last week for a punitive tax, first set in 1885, which was designed to keep the Chinese immigrants who helped build...
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US to deploy Patriots in Japan
TOKYO: The US will deploy advanced Patriot interceptor missiles on Japanese soil this year for the first time as the region braces itself for a possible test launch by North Korea of an intercontinental ballistic missile, local media reports say....
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