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Abbas hints at dismissing Hamas govt: Rice begins ME visit
RAMALLAH, Oct 4: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, bolstered by a visit by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, said on Wednesday he might dissolve the Hamas-led government and unity talks with the group were dead.... 
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Threat linked to UN post: Solana
BRUSSELS, Oct 4: North Korea’s announcement of plans to conduct a nuclear test could be linked to the naming of a South Korean as the likely next secretary-general of the United Nations, the EU’s foreign policy chief said on Wednesday....
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Sri Lanka peace bid hits fresh snags
COLOMBO: A renewed Norwegian bid to coax Sri Lanka’s government and Tamil Tiger rebels back to the negotiating table ran into fresh difficulties on Wednesday amid disputes over the timing and venue for talks....
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US claims detecting ‘activity’ at DPRK sites
WASHINGTON, Oct 4: The United States has detected activity at potential test sites in North Korea indicating possible preparations for a nuclear test, a U.S. defense official said on Wednesday, as...
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Rice ignored warning of 9/11 attacks: report
WASHINGTON, Oct 4: The White House records show that the Bush administration ignored a CIA warning that could have prevented the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States....
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Reporter R.W. Apple dies
NEW YORK, Oct 4: New York Times journalist R.W. Apple, a lead writer on war and politics for decades before he returned to the noodle shops of Saigon and restaurants of...
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Saudi envoy slams US on reform calls
WASHINGTON, Oct 4: Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States hit out on Wednesday at US ‘bombast’ in calls for reform in his country and warned action was needed now on the Israeli-Palestinian peace track....
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Information teleported from light to matter
LONDON, Oct 4: Beaming people in Star Trek fashion is still in the realms of science fiction but physicists in Denmark have teleported information from light to matter bringing quantum communication and computing closer to reality....
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Japanese recites 100,000 pi digits
TOKYO, Oct 4: A Japanese man seeking a world record on Wednesday spent a sleepless 16 hours reciting by memory the mathematical number pi down to the 100,000th digit....
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Two accused of aiding militant group
ALBANY (US), Oct 4: Two Muslim men driven by greed were willing participants in a phony plan to kill a Pakistani diplomat, a prosecutor said in closing arguments of their federal trial on Tuesday....
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Malaysia opens space centre
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 4: Malaysia on Wednesday launched Southeast Asia’s first space centre, in a major milestone for the country which will see its first astronaut blast off next year....
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Scientist emulates father to win Nobel prize
STOCKHOLM, Oct 4: American Roger Kornberg, the son of a Nobel laureate, won the Nobel chemistry prize on Wednesday for showing how genes are copied, a process essential to how cells develop and to life itself....
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Earthquake victims’ grief knows no boundaries MUZAFFARABAD: Grief knows no boundaries in divided Kashmir. Naseema Niaz is buried in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Azad Kashmir....
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Killings strike fear into Indian witch doctors
UTTARKUCHI (India): With a traditional woven cloth covering her hair, elaborate jewellery and a red mark on her forehead signifying her married status, Dimbeswari Bhattarai looks like any other woman in this corner of isolated northeast India....
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The forgotten ‘real India’: Glitter hides misery
LONDON: In E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India, Adela Quested arrives wanting to discover the “real India” behind the stereotypes of the British Raj. She ends up sinking into a state of illusion and misperception....
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Lankan militia accused of kidnapping boys
BATTICALOA (Sri Lanka): A feared militia along Sri Lanka’s volatile eastern coast has abducted hundreds of men and boys, some as young as 12, and is training them for combat in camps operated with the government’s consent, witnesses and officials said....
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Skin trade threatens India’s tigers
NEW DELHI: Tigers in India, which contains half of the world’s surviving population, face extinction unless an illicit skin trade run by criminal gangs between the subcontinent......
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