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Beijing opposes cargo inspection: World hails N. Korea sanctions
WASHINGTON, Oct 15: The international community on Sunday broadly welcomed United Nations sanctions against North Korea over its announced nuclear test, but the consensus was fractious.... 
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US using money to bring down govt: Hamas: Fatah termed stooge
JERUSALEM, Oct 15 A $42 million American program aimed at bolstering Palestinian opposition to Hamas has added more mistrust to the strained and increasingly bloody relations between the ruling Islamic group...
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Prospects for ME solution bleak: Annan
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 15: United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan is of the view that prospects for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had dwindled rather than grown over the last 12 months....
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2 senators call for new Iraq strategy
WASHINGTON, Oct 15: Two leading Republican senators called on Sunday for a new strategy in Iraq, saying the situation in getting worse and leaving the United States with few options....
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Yunus urges BD parties to resolve differences
DHAKA, Oct 15: Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus on Saturday urged both the ruling and opposition parties of Bangladesh to resolve the impasse over electoral law reforms so that the nation could start preparations for the next general election....
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Proof found against Katsav, say police
JERUSALEM, Oct 15: Israeli police said on Sunday it had acquired evidence suggesting President Moshe Katsav had raped and molested women who worked for him....
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Chinese in a dilemma
BEIJING, Oct 15: A huge flow of refugees, a stronger US presence in the region and economic pressures that could impact the stability of its government — those are the worst fears for China in the event North Korea collapsed....
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Ban says ‘I’m no pushover’
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 15: Ban Ki-Moon of South Korea, the next secretary-general of the United Nations, pledged to be a decisive leader and cautioned those who call him low-key not to mistake him for a pushover....
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Hawking to star in movie
LONDON, Oct 15: Acclaimed British physicist Stephen Hawking will trade in scientific journals for the big screen by starring in a movie, The Sunday Times reported....
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Japan aims to force China’s hand: North Korea sanctions
TOKYO: Japan has demonstrated firm resolve on North Korea by banning all its imports but has also shown it has few options left on Pyongyang other than pressing other countries to get tough, analysts said....
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Mystery of missing Christie solved?
LONDON: The solution to the darkest of all Agatha Christie mysteries may be at hand. What lay behind her extraordinary 11-day disappearance in 1926? Several plausible theories have competed for favour...
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Violence weakening Karzai govt
KABUL: Anxiety has replaced the hope of a new beginning in Afghanistan’s turbulent history two years after Hamid Karzai was made president of the war-torn country with the support of a US-led coalition....
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Iraq: it is time for a change in course
WASHINGTON: As a long time negotiator in the Middle East, I learned that the most demanding requirement of peacemaking was just getting each side to adjust to reality....
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Islamists plan Somalia without ‘guns’
MOGADISHU: Somalia’s Islamists plan to do what many believe to be impossible in a country synonymous with anarchy — take the guns away from one of the world’s most heavily armed populations....
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