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North Korea warned of severe consequences: UN statement on N-test
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 6: The UN Security Council urged North Korea to abandon its planned nuclear test and warned Pyongang of unspecified consequences if it goes ahead, in a statement adopted unanimously on Friday.... 
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Rice urges Kurds to work for Iraq’s unity
ARBIL (Iraq), Oct 6: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met the leaders of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region on Friday, urging them to cooperate with Iraqi Arabs in building a peaceful and unified country....
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Haniya resists pressure to recognise Israel
GAZA CITY, Oct 6: Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya was adamant on Friday that Hamas would not recognise Israel and outright rejected huge international pressure to soften the stance of his ruling Islamist movement....
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Security alert at UN mission in Geneva
GENEVA, Oct 6: The United Nations declared on Friday an end to a security alert in Geneva announced the day before when Swiss authorities warned of a possible attack....
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France’s Armenia bill angers Turkey
ANKARA, Oct 6: Turkey warned France on Friday that bilateral political and economic ties will suffer if the French parliament approves a law making it a punishable offence to deny the Armenian ‘genocide’....
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Moves for LTTE, Colombo talks fail
COLOMBO, Oct 6: Heavy sea and land battles erupted on Friday in Sri Lanka with the military reporting the recovery of 22 bodies of Tamil rebels after a Norwegian envoy failed to broker a deal for re-launching peace talks....
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Remains of giant camel discovered
DAMASCUS, Oct 6: Swiss researchers have discovered the 100,000-year-old remains of a previously unknown giant camel species in central Syria....
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Jolie, Pitt in India for Pearl film
MUMBAI, Oct 6: Hollywood star couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have arrived in India for the shooting of a movie based on the murder of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl....
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Danish TV shows video denigrating Prophet
COPENHAGEN, Oct 6: Denmark’s national TV2 channel broadcast on Friday excerpts from a video denigrating the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him). The video was made by members of an extreme-right party....
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Blast at US plant causes scare
WASHINGTON, Oct 6: Some 17,000 people were asked to evacuate and 18 were injured late on Thursday after an explosion at a North Carolina chemical plant, a city official said....
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Internet firms offered compromise on copyright FRANKFURT, Oct 6: Publishers offered an olive branch to Internet search engines such as Google on Friday that would make content widely available, but safeguard copyrights, amid bitter legal tussles with new technology....
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Bush and Blair are deceiving the people of Darfur
LONDON: A cruel hoax is being perpetrated on the desperate people of Darfur. With their constant demands for UN troops to go to Sudan’s western region as the only way to...
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Cured lepers still live in ‘colonies’ in China
PANYU (China): The old men hunched over a board game looked like any other pensioners playing chess, until they lifted their heads to welcome medical staff approaching their table....
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Turk generals mount offensive over EU, presidency
ANKARA: It was an unusual question for the leader of a country seeking European Union membership but Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan took it in his stride....
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Hamas’s ‘Executive Force’ gains strength in Gaza
GAZA: They call themselves the “Executive Force” of the Hamas-led government. Rivals prefer “Black Militia” or “Peshmerga” — a word that literally means “those who face death” but is used by some Gazans for a gun-for-hire....
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Americans ignore politics to hail Chavez’s cheap oil offer
QUINCY (US): With a chill of autumn in the air, Bridget Durkin welcomes cheap heat for her Massachusetts home, even if it comes from a Venezuelan leader who called US President George W....
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After 5 years of war, US military shows fatigue
WASHINGTON: Five years of warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan have left signs of wear and tear on the US military, raising questions about its ability to sustain its current level of operations and confront potential new crises....
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