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US may bomb Iran N-sites next year: Think-tanks’ assessment
WASHINGTON, Nov 22: President George W. Bush could choose military action over diplomacy and bomb Iran''s nuclear facilities next year, political analysts in Washington agree.... 
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US blames Syria, Iran for Lebanon violence
WASHINGTON, Nov 22: President George Bush on Tuesday accused Syria and Iran of fomenting violence and instability in Lebanon, as he condemned the assassination of Lebanese cabinet minister Pierre Gemayel....
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Iraqi PM to meet Bush after Iran-sponsored summit
WASHINGTON, Nov 22: US President George Bush will meet Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki in Jordan next week amid reports of a new Iranian move to restore peace, the White House said on Wednesday....
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Israel used excessive force: UN
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 22: Israel engaged in `a significant pattern of excessive, indiscriminate and disproportionate force’ against Lebanese civilians that amounted to `a flagrant violation’ of international law during the invasion...
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Israeli govt okays targeted killings
JERUSALEM, Nov 22: Israel on Wednesday authorised military operations against Hamas institutions and targeted killings of those behind `terrorist attacks’ in a bid to counter Palestinian rocket fire....
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Airline to probe imams’ removal
WASHINGTON, Nov 22: US Airways said on Tuesday it was investigating an incident in which six Muslim imams were handcuffed and removed from a flight at a Minnesota airport, but later released without charges....
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40 detained in Turkey for protesting Pope’s visit
ISTANBUL, Nov 22: Police on Wednesday detained about 40 members of a Turkish nationalist party who occupied one of Istanbul''s most famous buildings, the Haghia Sophia, to protest Pope Benedict XVI''s visit next week....
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Tigers group offers to lay down arms
COLOMBO, Nov 22: A breakaway group of the Tamil Tigers has announced that it is ready to lay down arms provided the ‘repressive acts’ of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran are brought ‘under control’....
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Turkey urges ME states to join UN force in Lebanon
ISTANBUL, Nov 22: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday urged Arab states to join the United Nations force in Lebanon monitoring the ceasefire with Israel, the Anatolia news agency reported....
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LTTE refuses to guarantee safety of food convoy
COLOMBO, Nov 22: The Tamil Tiger guerillas on Wednesday rejected a government request for a guarantee that a convoy of essential items to be sent to the northern Jaffna peninsula by...
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Hu asks India’s Left to be ‘pragmatic’
NEW DELHI, Nov 22: Visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao urged India''s Communist leaders on Wednesday to take a more “pragmatic” line on issues such as economic development....
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Ex-president of Djibouti dies
DJIBOUTI, Nov 22: Former Djibouti president Hassan Gouled Aptidon, the country''s first ruler after independence from France in 1977, died at his home on Tuesday after a long illness, a member of his family said....
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Bush favours Nato ties with Japan, S. Korea
WASHINGTON, Nov 22: US President George Bush will ask a NATO summit next week to establish a partnership between the Atlantic alliance and five key allies, including Japan, Australia and South Korea, a senior official said on Tuesday....
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Indonesia ready to send troops to Iraq
JAKARTA, Nov 22: Indonesia is willing to send troops to serve under the UN flag in Iraq if the international community agrees to such a deployment, Defence Minister Yuwono Sudarsono said on Wednesday....
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Priest, nun ally with militants
BEIT LAHIYA (Gaza Strip), Nov 22: Palestinian militants hosted an unlikely ally in their Gaza home today a priest and a nun who came from the American heartland to stand as human shields against Israeli air strikes.“We''re...
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Iraq civilian toll hits new high
BAGHDAD, Nov 22: Iraq''s civilian death toll reached a new monthly high of more than 3,700 last month, a UN report said on Wednesday....
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Blair declines to ‘point finger’ at Damascus over killing
LONDON, Nov 22: The killers of Lebanese minister Pierre Gemayel were out to undermine the government, British Prime Minister Tony Blair''s spokesman said today while stressing London was not “pointing the finger” at Syria....
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Millions in UK tsunami aid unaccounted for
LONDON, Nov 22: More than nine million pounds (17 million dollars) of British government aid for victims of the Asian tsunami may not yet have been spent, a parliamentary committee said on Wednesday....
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Suicide bombers often fail to hit target in Afghanistan
KABUL: When an 18-year-old dismounted his bicycle a couple kilometres outside the eastern town of Khost last week, his clothes flapped up, revealing a suicide vest to an alert farmer nearby....
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Women education a daunting task in Afghan society
KABUL: Decades of civil strife and rule by the hard-line Taliban regime have left most Afghan women and girls battered and illiterate. The country''s only female government minister faces the daunting...
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