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Tehran hails nuclear proposal as positive: US president chides allies
MADRID, July 7: Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said on Friday he had a positive impression of a proposal for Tehran to halt nuclear enrichment, but would not be rushed into responding.... 
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Bush calls for ‘broad coalition’: N. Korea’s missile tests
WASHINGTON, July 7: US President Bush urged the international community on Friday to form a ‘broad coalition’ against North Korea and send Pyongyang a ‘loud and clear message that its missile tests were not acceptable....
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China considering extension of Lhasa rail to Indian border
GANGTOK (India), July 7: China plans to extend its railway linking Beijing to Tibet to a newly opened border point in India’s northeast and possibly link it to India’s eastern coast, the Chinese envoy to New Delhi said on Friday....
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Bush not to ‘lecture’ Putin
WASHINGTON, July 7: President George Bush, whose administration has criticised anti-democratic moves in Russia, said on Thursday he hopes for candid talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin next week but will not lecture him....
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Seoul shelves food aid to Pyongyang
SEOUL, July 7: South Korea on Friday put off indefinitely crucial food aid to North Korea in response to the impoverished state’s missile tests but said it would stand by its policy of engaging its neighbour....
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US to transfer security of 9 Iraqi provinces this year
WASHINGTON, July 7: The United States plans to transfer control of security to Iraqis in half the country’s 18 provinces by the end of the year, a senior US military official said on Friday....
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Big five divided
UNITED NATIONS, July 7: Significant divisions appeared among the five permanent members of the UN Security Council on Friday over the issue of sanctions against North Korea....
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Former Indian diplomat charged in coffin scam NEW DELHI, July 7: Indian police charged on Friday a former military attache and a US-based firm over a scam involving inflated prices for body-bags at the height in 1999 of the conflict in Kargil....
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Karzai seeks more help to curb violence
TOKYO, July 7: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Friday he was concerned about rising violence in his country and called on the international community, especially nations like Pakistan, for more cooperation to fight it....
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Putin allowed to use special fighters abroad
MOSCOW, July 7: Russian lawmakers on Friday unanimously endorsed a Kremlin request that President Vladimir Putin be allowed to send special forces to hunt down terrorists anywhere in the world....
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OIC likely to postpone summit
RIYADH, July 7: The next OIC summit, scheduled to be held in Dakar, Senegal next year, could be deferred until 2008, Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio was quoted as saying after meeting his Saudi counterpart....
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A Palestinian on life in the blast zone
GAZA STRIP: What follows are excerpts from the blog of Mona Elfarra, a Palestinian physician and women’s rights activist who lives in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip....
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How London carried on after 7/7 tragedy
LONDON: Shortly after the Second World War, a new poster appeared in tube stations around the capital. It declared simply: “London Underground carried on.” It was a bald statement of fact...
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Mexico’s massive divide
WASHINGTON: If there isn’t an agreed-upon translation for ‘hanging chad’ in Spanish, it looks as if there soon will be. Mexico’s watershed presidential election ended up ‘tight as a tick’, as...
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A way out of Guantanamo
WASHINGTON: As the White House ponders how to respond to the Supreme Court’s rebuff last week in the Hamdan case, officials are studying an often-overlooked recommendation of the September 11 commission,...
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