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65 killed in shelling on DPs’ camp in Lanka
COLOMBO, Nov 8: Sixty-five civilians were killed and about 300 injured on Wednesday when government forces shelled a refugee camp in eastern Sri Lanka, Tamil rebels and medical sources said.... 
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Nepalese rebels renounce armed struggle
KATHMANDU, Nov 8: Nepal''s Maoist rebel leader on Wednesday publicly declared an end to a decade of armed struggle and renounced violence following a landmark peace deal with the Himalayan nation''s main ruling parties....
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Bush briefing: key points
WASHINGTON, Nov 8: Following are the main points of US President George Bush''s press conference on Wednesday....
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Result will force change in Iraq policy: media
WASHINGTON, Nov 8: The Republican defeat in the US mid-term elections will force major changes on President George Bush, particularly in Iraq, US media said on Wednesday....
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Major winners & losers
WASHINGTON, Nov 8: Below is a snapshot of US political figures whose careers were hurt, and those who were helped, by the midterm elections....
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Arabs relish Republican defeat
CAIRO, Nov 8: Arabs relished on Wednesday the beating the US Republican party took in mid-term elections, saying President George Bush had been given a well-deserved slap for heavy-handed Middle East tactics....
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EU links Turkey talks with Cyprus progress
BRUSSELS, Nov 8: The European Commission on Wednesday issued a critical report on Turkey, stopping short of suspending EU membership talks now but telling Ankara to make progress on Cyprus within five weeks....
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Hate-figure to be first woman speaker
WASHINGTON, Nov 8: Nancy Pelosi, a hate figure for the Republican right, is poised to become the first woman speaker in US Congressional history after the Democrats election triumph....
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Executed WWI soldiers receive pardon
LONDON, Nov 8: More than 300 British and Commonwealth soldiers executed for cowardice and desertion during World War I were pardoned on Wednesday, in a move hailed by families as proving they were `victims of war’....
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Govt has ‘blood on its hands’, say Israelis
TEL AVIV, Nov 8: Some 200 people demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, saying the Israeli government had “blood on its hands” after the killing of 18 Palestinians, mostly women and children, by shell fire in Gaza....
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BD at the crossroads of secularism and religious militancy
DHAKA: A country torn by a low-intensity cultural civil war has seen at least 25 people die in this conflict in the last 10 days; its capital city is strewn with overturned cycle rickshaws, rocks and broken glass....
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Afghan govt weakness paving way for Taliban’s rise
KANDAHAR: For Ata Mohammad, who lost 19 members of his family during a fight between Nato and Taliban militants, the choices ahead are bleak. He has no particular wish to join the Taliban....
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Why Afzal Guru must not be hanged
NEW DELHI: Mohammad Afzal Guru is supposed to hang. His conviction for his role in the conspiracy to attack Indian Parliament in 2001 was upheld by the Supreme Court in August....
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EU’s role vital for early exit: Nato chief
BRUSSELS: Nato Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on Monday intensified calls for the European Union to take on a greater role in Afghanistan by boosting reconstruction and police training in support of the alliance''s military operation....
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