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US-India deal to generate nuclear trade worth $40bn: Business council’s assessment
WASHINGTON, July 3: The Indo-US deal will generate $20 to $40 billion of nuclear trade with a large portion going to businesses in the United States, says a business council which... 
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Militants issue deadline over Israeli soldier
GAZA CITY, July 3: Palestinian militants holding an Israeli soldier captive issued an ultimatum on Monday for Israel to free prisoners or face the consequences as the army kept up its military assault on the Gaza Strip....
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Hamas holds meetings in secret
GAZA, July 3: Faced with the threat of Israeli assassination, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh and many of his top ministers meet in secret, sleep in safe houses, and communicate by fax and email instead of by cell phone....
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Amman stands by Saddam’s daughter
AMMAN, July 3: Jordan is insisting that former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s eldest daughter remain under its protection, despite calls from the US-backed authorities in Baghdad for her extradition....
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Ex-soldier charged with murder
WASHINGTON, July 3: US federal prosecutors charged a veteran of the Iraq war on Monday with raping an Iraqi woman and killing members of her family to hide the crime....
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Asteroid & Earth in ‘near miss’
LONDON, July 3: An asteroid up to half a mile wide passed Earth at around the same distance as the Moon - a near-miss in astronomical terms....
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DPRK vows ‘annihilating strike’
SEOUL, July 3: Pyongyang ratcheted up the rhetoric in its war of words with Washington by promising an ‘annihilating strike’ with its nuclear deterrent should the United States launch an attack, its media said on Monday....
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Iraq ready to revive talks with Turkey
ANKARA, July 3: Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Monday the new Baghdad government is ready to revive three-way talks with Turkey and the United States to discuss measures to...
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Football ‘fans’ hold up bank
BERLIN, July 3: Bank robbers disguised as football World Cup fanatics slipped past guards in Germany, decked out in wigs, scarves and hats in the national side’s colours, police said on Monday....
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Racist graffiti on mosque
PARIS, July 3: Vandals have painted swastikas and anti-Muslim slogans on a mosque in the Parisian suburb of Courcouronnes, a mosque official said on Monday. Abderrahmane Ammari said ‘extremists’ attacked the...
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Train to Tibet crosses highest point
ABOARD THE BEIJING-LHASA EXPRESS, July 3: The historic first train from Beijing to Lhasa crossed its highest point on Monday at the Tanggula pass on the Tibetan plateau, 5,072 meters (16,737 feet) above sea level....
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Iran hints at ‘flexibility’
TEHRAN, July 3: Iran could be flexible in talks to resolve a nuclear standoff with the international community if its ‘red lines’ were respected, a senior security official said on Monday...
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New Jersey govt shut down after budget row
TRENTON (USA): New Jersey’s courts did not open on Monday and the same could happen to betting at race tracks and the Atlantic City casinos under a state government shutdown that began after the legislature failed to adopt a budget....
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Doha talks must fail for the sake of world’s poor
LONDON: Among those who care about multilateral trade negotiations the air is thick with talk of crisis in the Doha trade round. Should we be crossing our fingers that agreement is...
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How to help Afghanistan
KABUL: The current political and military meltdown in Afghanistan was entirely predictable and avoidable. For the past three years Afghans, their President, Hamid Karzai, and foreign experts have been warning that...
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Nasa trying out plan for shuttle salvage
CAPE CANAVERAL: The destruction of the US space shuttle Columbia in 2003 not only spurred the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) to figure out a way to save a stranded...
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Palestinians fear the worst
BEIT HANUN (Gaza Strip): Nine months after Israel evacuated the Gaza Strip, anxious Palestinian residents awoke on Monday to the once all-too-familiar sight of tanks and bulldozers snaking through their farmland....
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Beijing’s Tibet railway a military threat to Delhi: Indian analysts’ apprehension
ABOARD THE BEIJING-LHASA EXPRESS: China’s new railway to Tibet has the potential to significantly alter the nation’s trading and military relationships with South Asia, analysts say....
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NGOs face trouble in Russia
MOSCOW: Russian authorities have refused to grant legal status to 40 foreign non-governmental organisations which submitted paperwork to the justice ministry under stringent new legislation that requires them to re-register by October 18....
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