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Bomb blast, attacks leave 80 dead in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Oct 30: Eighty people were killed or found dead in Iraq on Monday, including 33 victims of a bomb attack on labourers lined up to find a day’s work in Baghdad’s predominantly Shia district of Sadr City.... 
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US toll for Oct hits 100
The death of a Marine announced on Monday took the American death toll in Iraq for October to 100, a week before elections that could cost President George Bush’s Republicans control of Congress because of the war....
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Baghdad to seek extension: FM: US-led forces’ mandate
BAGHDAD, Oct 30: Iraq plans to ask the United Nations Security Council to extend the mandate governing the presence of US-led forces for another year, Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Monday....
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Traders clash with police in Delhi
NEW DELHI, Oct 30: Hundreds of shopkeepers clashed on Monday with police wielding batons and water cannons at the start of a three-day strike in the Indian capital against a decision to close shops in residential areas, eye witnesses said....
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Nato claims killing 55 militants in Zabul
KABUL, Oct 30: Nato troops fought a six-hour battle with insurgents in southern Afghanistan on Monday in a firefight that left 55 militants and one Nato soldier dead, the Western alliance said....
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Climate change may uproot 200m: study
LONDON, Oct 30: Britain issued a call for urgent action on climate change on Monday after a hard-hitting report painted an apocalyptic picture of the economic and environmental fallout from further global warming....
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Democrats may gain 30 seats in elections: survey
WASHINGTON, Oct 30: The opposition Democrats may pick up 25 to 30 seats in the House of Representatives and at least four seats in the Senate, predicts the latest opinion survey on America’s mid-term congressional elections....
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Berlusconi, lawyer to face trial for graft
ROME, Oct 30: Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and British lawyer David Mills will face trial for corruption, a Milan judge decided Monday, the ANSA news agency reported....
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Aishwarya to reveal marriage from ‘rooftop’
MUMBAI, Oct 30: When actress Aishwarya Rai does decide to tie the knot, she says she will shout the news from rooftops. Ms Rai denied recent newspaper reports of an impending marriage with popular actor Abhishek Bachchan....
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US sets ‘global’ agenda for Nato meet
BRUSSELS, Oct 30: The United States set out an ambitious agenda on Monday for transforming the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) into a global security organisation at a summit next month, but acknowledged that some European allies have misgivings....
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Bangladesh violence mars start of election process
DHAKA: A decision by Bangladesh President Iajuddin Ahmed on Sunday, to head an interim government to conduct general elections set for January, may exacerbate widespread political violence that has already resulted in 27 deaths over the weekend....
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Disillusionment growing with market economy
LOS ANGELES: Against all odds, we are living in a time of plenty. Neither the aftershocks of Sept 11 nor a tripling in oil prices has prevented the world’s economy from...
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Israeli president told to step down
AL QUDS: Israel’s attorney general told the supreme court on Saturday that President Moshe Katsav should step down amid a criminal investigation into rape and sexual assault allegations....
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Climate of fear fuels case against two Pakistani Americans
SAN FRANCISCO: Trial begins next month of Hamid Hayat, a Pakistani American, who was convicted by jury in April on charges of providing material support to terrorists....
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India takes to plus-size fashion
NEW DELHI: As waistlines expand in step with India’s booming economy and consumer spending, plus-size western clothing stores have found a niche catering to the country’s fashion-conscious larger men and women....
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Old scourges loom over Afghanistan
KABUL: With winter approaching, all the indicators for Afghanistan have headed south. We are on the brink of losing Afghanistan to the resurgent Taliban and to the poverty and despair in which US forces found it five years ago....
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US is no more the top arms supplier
WASHINGTON: The United States ceded to Russia and France last year its role of the top arms supplier to the developing world as it failed to take full advantage of emerging...
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Thailand’s tuk-tuks go global
BANGKOK: London has its black cabs, Venice its gondolas, and Bangkok its tuk-tuks, but Thailand’s iconic three-wheeled taxis are going global as foreigners scramble to pick up a piece of Thai culture....
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Arms for Iraqis unaccounted for
WASHINGTON: Thousands of weapons the United States has provided Iraqi security forces cannot be accounted for and spare parts and repair manuals are unavailable for many others, a new report to Congress says....
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Spanish worker kidnapped
GAZA: Palestinian militants kidnapped a Spanish aid worker in the Gaza Strip on Monday, a Palestinian security source and the Spanish organisation said....
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