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Rice trying to overthrow govt: Hamas
GAZA CITY, Oct 5: The ruling Hamas party accused US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday of trying to ‘sabotage’ efforts to form a Palestinian unity government and of looking to ‘overthrow the elected government’.... 
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US plane to monitor N. Korea’s N-test
TOKYO, Oct 5: A US military plane capable of detecting radioactive particles in the air left southern Japan on Thursday amid concerns North Korea could soon test a nuclear bomb....
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China’s jamming test alarms US: Spy satellites
WASHINGTON, Oct 5: China has beamed a ground-based laser at US spy satellites over its territory, a US agency said, in an action that exposed the potential vulnerability of space systems...
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Iraq entering ‘decisive’ six months: US General
WARSAW, Oct 5: The US general in charge of the multinational contingent in Iraq, Gen George Casey, said here on Thursday that the next six months would be a decisive period that will determine Iraq’s future....
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Straw sparks row with remarks on Muslim veil
LONDON, Oct 5: Former British foreign secretary Jack Straw triggered a row on Thursday with his call for Muslim women to remove the veil when they visit him....
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Muslim excused from Israeli embassy duty
LONDON, Oct 5: Britain’s top policeman ordered an urgent inquiry on Thursday into a decision to excuse a Muslim officer from guard duty at the Israeli embassy during the recent Israel-Lebanon conflict, police said....
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BNP, AL begin talks on poll reforms
DHAKA, Oct 5: A much-awaited dialogue on electoral reforms between the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Awami League began here on Thursday....
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US govt allowed to continue wire-tapping
CHICAGO, Oct 5: The government can continue to listen in on phone calls and e-mails overseas until its appeal of a federal judge’s ruling outlawing the eavesdropping programme is decided, the US Appeals Court in Cincinnati ruled on Wednesday....
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Saudi govt drops plan to set up special court
RIYADH, Oct 5: The Saudi government has begun trying suspected militants in Islamic courts, the deputy interior minister said in an interview with a television network on Thursday....
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Ethiopians shelling town: Somalis
MOGADISHU, Oct 5: Somalia’s powerful Islamist movement claimed on Thursday that Ethiopian troops were shelling a Muslim-held town near the two countries’ border and said it had put its forces on alert for an invasion....
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Moscow makes record arms sale to Third World
MOSCOW: Russia is increasingly supplying military arms and weaponry to developing countries in what defence analysts describe as the largest post-Soviet export deals....
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Russian curbs help Georgian leader
TBILISI: At a polling station in the upscale Vake neighbourhood of Tbilisi, voters lined up on Thursday to cast ballots in municipal elections were not grumbling about roads or garbage collection....
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Nepal govt-Maoist talks thrown into uncertainty KATHMANDU: As Nepal emerges from a week-long annual holiday to celebrate the Dasain, the most important religious and cultural festival of the majority Hindus, the country is again faced with the...
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ME states unlikely to honour US request on Sudan deployment
CAIRO: The United States is focusing on the Arab world as a way to get UN peacekeepers deployed in Darfur to stop the violence and provide humanitarian relief....
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Now robbers steal ATMs instead of cash
PHOENIX: Leave the gun. Bank robbers have found an easier way to make off with other people’s money: Around the country, thieves have hot-wired forklifts at construction sites, chugged up to...
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‘DNAboost’ may crack old murder cases
LONDON: Thousands of unsolved criminal cases could be reopened after the discovery by scientists of a new DNA testing technique....
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Civil society growing in China, says study
LONDON: Civil society is growing rapidly in China —where the government will let it, according to a new civil society index report by the group Civicus....
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