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India, IAEA begin talks on safeguards agreement
NEW DELHI, July 8: India held talks on Saturday with the UN’s nuclear watchdog to help clinch an accord which would see New Delhi place under safeguards a majority of its atomic plants, an Indian official said.... 
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Indian PM in a spot after U-turn on privatization: Resignation rumours in Delhi
NEW DELHI, July 8: India’s ruling Congress party moved into damage control on Saturday after an embarrassing U-turn on privatisation sparked rumours that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was quitting....
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One arrested in NY tunnel plot
NEW YORK, July 8: Law enforcement officials overseas have arrested one man and have taken two others into custody on suspicion of planning suicide bombings in train tunnels beneath the Hudson...
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Annan urges ME parties to ‘pull back from brink’
UNITED NATIONS, July 8: As the Israeli military operation in occupied Palestinian territories continued to take its toll in lives and property, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday again appealed to...
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US hints at vetoing ME resolution
UNITED NATIONS, July 8: The United States has indicated that it would veto Qatar’s draft resolution submitted to the Security Council on behalf of the Arab group calling upon Israel to ‘cease its aggression against the Palestinian population in Gaza....
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Lankan party’s threat
COLOMBO, July 8: Sri Lanka’s main opposition party on Saturday threatened to withdraw its support to President Mahinda Rajapakse’s peace moves if the government continued to ‘snatch’ opposition legislators....
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‘Desert of death’ takes its toll on UK troops
CAMP BASTION: Locals call it the “desert of death” — a stark landscape of burned flats, furnace-like heat and choking dust storms that sprawls across Helmand province....
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West can only wait as Iran considers nuclear offer
BERLIN: The West has no choice but to wait as Tehran plays for time and considers an offer of incentives from six major powers aimed at resolving its nuclear standoff, Western diplomats and analysts said....
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Chavez seeks Russian jets to bolster air power
CARACAS (Venezuela): Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez travels to Russia this month seeking to buy 24 Sukhoi SU-30 combat aircraft that analysts say could make Venezuela one of South America’s most potent air forces....
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Iraqi film makers risk all to tell stories
LONDON: Hollywood directors risk big budgets and reputations when they work. Iraqi film makers risk their lives....
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From the eye of the storm
GAZA CITY: After causing long term damage to civilian life and inflicting mass punishment on the Gaza Strip, it is perhaps the Israeli leaders who deserve sympathy, for having to live with the guilt of what they have done....
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Mittal to build £5bn steel plant in India
NEW DELHI: Lakshmi Mittal, the world’s fifth richest man, has given a £5bn vote of confidence in the country of his birth by announcing plans to build his first steel plant in India....
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Russia pulls up US-funded radio services
MOSCOW: Two radio news services funded by the US government that broadcast across Russia and were often critical of the Kremlin have been largely taken off the air....
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