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Suicide car bomb kills 9 civilians in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Oct 13: A suicide car bomb ripped through Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar on Friday, killing nine civilians in the latest in a rash of such attacks.... 
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13 die in Israeli raids on Gaza
GAZA CITY, Oct 13: Three Hamas militants were killed on Friday in an Israeli air strike as the army pressed on with a deadly offensive in the Gaza Strip amid deadlocked efforts on forming a Palestinian unity government....
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Iraq crisis fuelling asylum flow to Europe: UN
GENEVA, Oct 13: Iraq is suffering from a “steady, silent exodus” of more than 40,000 people a month fleeing violence and the flow of refugees towards Europe is growing, the UN refugee agency said on Friday....
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US envoy snubbed on arrival in Sudan
KHARTOUM, Oct 13: Sudan snubbed newly appointed US presidential envoy Andrew Natsios on his arrival in Khartoum on Friday for his first visit since taking up his post, security officials told AFP....
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US lawmaker convicted in lobbying scandal
WASHINGTON, Oct 13: A Republican congressman pleaded guilty on Friday to accepting meals, drinks, gambling chips and other items worth tens of thousands of dollars, becoming the first lawmaker convicted in the Jack Abramoff political corruption scandal....
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Nobel winner will donate prize money
DHAKA, Oct 13: Bangladeshi Nobel Peace laureate Muhammad Yunus said on Friday he would donate his share of the 1.4-million-dollar prize money to good causes....
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DPRK curbs must spare children: Unicef
GENEVA, Oct 13: The UN children’s fund warned on Friday that any sanctions imposed on North Korea over its declared nuclear test must not affect children in the country....
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Turkey may take steps against France
ANKARA, Oct 13: Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Turkey was studying retaliatory measures against France following approval of a law making it a crime to deny Armenians suffered genocide at the hands of Ottoman Turks....
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Sri Lanka army suffers heavy losses
VAVUNIYA, Oct 13: Sri Lanka’s military and the Tamil rebels opened a new front in the east after a fierce battle in the north killed 130 soldiers, casting a shadow over peace talks later this month....
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Haze-hit countries meeting ends without detailed plan
PEKANBARU (Indonesia), Oct 13: Southeast Asian nations failed on Friday to agree on a detailed plan to tackle Indonesian forest fires, telling Jakarta it must ratify a smog pact before it could expect large amounts of aid....
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French vote a bid to destabilise Turkey
ANKARA: Anti-European sentiment is likely to rise in Turkey after a French vote to make it a crime to deny that the World War I killings of Armenians were genocide, analysts warned on Friday....
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US reaches population milestone
LONDON: If all goes according to plan, next Tuesday you should take a minute out of your busy morning to reflect on the state of affairs in the world’s only superpower....
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Washington stuck in worldwide involvement
THE UNITED STATES is bogged down in what appears to be an unwinnable war in Iraq; it is facing very unpleasant options in regard to neighbouring Iran’s nuclear programme; senior Nato...
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Experience tells US not to push for democracy
WASHINGTON: The United States has quietly retreated from its high-profile push for democracy in the Muslim world, since the Hamas election stunned the Bush administration by bringing a violent militant group to power....
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A ‘Nobel’ bank of the poor for the poor
NEW DELHI: For a man who has perhaps done more than anyone to help people out of poverty, Muhammad Yunus makes no apologies for giving nothing to beggars....
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Turks extols Pamuk’s words, not his views
ISTANBUL: In Orhan Pamuk’s birthplace and source of literary inspiration neighbours congratulated him for winning this year’s Nobel literature prize but, like many Turks, were less happy about his political opinions....
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