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| October 11, 2006 | Wednesday | Ramazan 17, 1427 |
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Yahoo starts work on time capsule
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 10: Yahoo set out on Monday to capture life on Earth in digital formats for a ‘time capsule’ to be buried in Silicon Valley as well as beamed from Mexico into the cosmos.... 
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Syria can live in peace with Israel: Bashar
LONDON, Oct 10: Syria and Israel can live side-by-side, in peace and harmony, accepting each other''s existence, Syria''s President Bashar al-Assad said on Monday....
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Nigerian villagers take over oil facility
PORT HARCOURT (Nigeria), Oct 10: Armed villagers invaded on Tuesday a Nigerian oil platform operated by Royal Dutch Shell, holding up to 60 workers hostage in a dispute over community benefits....
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Qatar ‘fails’ to end standoff
GAZA CITY, Oct 10: The adviser of Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, Nabil Amr, told journalists that the Qatar-sponsored mediation had "failed"....
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Philippines bomb blast kills 12
MANILA, Oct 10: At least a dozen people were killed and over 40 wounded when a homemade bomb exploded during a town festival in the southern Philippines, army and police officials said on Tuesday....
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Bush’s ‘axis of evil’ comes back to haunt US
WASHINGTON: Nearly five years after President Bush introduced the concept of an “axis of evil” comprising Iraq, Iran and North Korea, the administration has reached a crisis point with each nation:...
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Thousands attend journalist’s funeral
MOSCOW: Thousands of mourners, including western ambassadors, gathered on Tuesday at the funeral of Anna Politkovskaya, a prominent reporter and critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin whose murder fuelled international condemnation....
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Myanmar junta tightens 42-year grip on power
YANGON: Myanmar’s ruling junta has reconvened its constitution-drafting convention, for what is being billed as one of the last sessions before a draft constitution is finalised....
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Chavez ally is favourite in Ecuador election
QUITO (Ecuador): A leftist ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez who promises to break the grip of Ecuador’s political elite is the front-runner in a tight race ahead of Sunday’s presidential election....
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North Korea’s N-test the last nail in NPT coffin
WASHINGTON: North Korea’s test of a nuclear weapon has highlighted the failed state of the nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty and could encourage Iran in its own nuclear pursuit....
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India’s child labour law termed a charade
NEW DELHI: Ten-year-old Sonu sits forlornly on a plastic chair in a ramshackle street food stall in New Delhi, taking a break after serving customers tea....
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Business as usual in border town
DANDONG (China): A few Chinese soldiers carried out a brief exercise with guns on a bridge linking China and North Korea on Tuesday, but there was little obvious sign of tension a day after Pyongyang said it tested a nuclear device....
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White House doubts authenticity: N. Korea tested actual N-bomb: South
WASHINGTON, Oct 10: The White House said on Tuesday it was still not certain whether North Korea had conducted a nuclear test or just ‘dusted off’ an old device....
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N. Korea may fire missile at US: official
SEOUL, Oct 10: A North Korean official warned on Tuesday that the communist nation could fire a nuclear-tipped missile unless the US acts to resolve its standoff with Pyongyang....
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300,000 Iraqis homeless: ministry
BAGHDAD, Oct 10: The number of displaced Iraqi families is rising rapidly, officials said on Tuesday, with over 300,000 people already driven from their homes by sectarian violence....
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Blair supports Straw in veil row
LONDON, Oct 10: Britain''s former foreign secretary Jack Straw found support on Tuesday from Prime Minister Tony Blair and controversial author Salman Rushdie for raising the issue of whether Muslim women should be veiled....
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Israel calls for sanctions against Iran
JERUSALEM, Oct 10: Israel urged on Tuesday that economic sanctions be slapped on Iran over its nuclear program, warning of possible atomic cooperation between Tehran and Pyongyang after the latter’s claimed nuclear test....
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Seoul orders troops to be combat ready
SEOUL, Oct 10: South Korea said on Tuesday it could not rule out further North Korean nuclear tests given the communist state''s large stockpile of weapons-grade plutonium, and ordered its military to stay on maximum alert....
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China holding ‘anti-chemical’ exercise: daily
BEIJING, Oct 10: A Hong Kong newspaper reported on Tuesday that China had cancelled leave for troops along part of its border with North Korea and that some were conducting ‘anti-chemical’ training exercises....
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Democrats take record lead
WASHINGTON, Oct 10: A flurry of polls out on Tuesday, four weeks before election day, showed Democrats with a commanding lead in the race to regain control of the US Congress....
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