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US lacks intel for Iran attack: daily
WASHINGTON, Nov 23: The United States does not have sufficient intelligence to launch precision attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities but it would not oppose an Israeli attack on these installations, reports Israel’s Haaretz newspaper.... 
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IAEA blocks aid for Iran’s reactor
VIENNA, Nov 23: The UN nuclear watchdog''s board of governors on Thursday indefinitely blocked Iran''s bid for technical aid for a reactor project over concerns it could be secretly used to yield bomb-grade plutonium....
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US role in Iraq longer than in WWII
WASHINGTON, Nov 23: The US involvement in Iraq will pass another sad milestone on Sunday, when it overtakes the length of America''s engagement in World War II....
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NATO facing troop shortfall in Afghanistan: Jones
MONS (Belgium), Nov 23: Nato’s top operational commander said on Wednesday its force in Afghanistan faced troop shortages and diplomats doubted whether an alliance summit next week would plug the gaps....
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Funeral turns into anti-Syria platform
BEIRUT, Nov 23: Central Beirut was a sea of people on Thursday as Lebanese turned out in strength for the funeral of anti-Syrian minister Pierre Gemayel, whose murder threatens to plunge the country deeper into political turmoil....
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Life vanished on Earth 250m years ago: study
WASHINGTON, Nov 23: About 95 per cent of the Earth''s marine species and 70 percent of its land species were wiped out during a “mass extinction” about 250 million years ago, according to Australian and US researchers....
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UK official proposes legalising heroin
LONDON, Nov.23: As Afghanistan’s record opium poppy crop floods the European cities with the drug, the risk of higher numbers of heroin overdoses has increased in the region, the UN warned on Thursday....
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Ethiopia says it is ready for war with Somali Islamists
MOGADISHU, Nov 23: Ethiopian President Meles Zenawi said here on Thursday his country had completed preparations for war with neighbouring Somalia''s powerful Islamist movement, alongside faltering peace efforts....
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Hu meets family of legendary doctor
MUMBAI, Nov 23: China''s visiting President Hu Jintao on Thursday met the family of an Indian doctor who died while treating Chinese troops during the Sino-Japanese war in the 1930s and...
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Candidate jokes about Bush ties to Osama clan QUITO, Nov 23: Ecuador''s leftist presidential candidate Rafael Correa on Thursday defended his friendship with Venezuela''s controversial leader, joking that US President George Bush was friendly with Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s family....
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History stops Iraqis from relying on US
LOS ANGELES: Many Americans have been wondering why so many Iraqis are willing to fight for militias and terrorist groups but not for the American-backed government....
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Gaza family feud — a microcosm of misery
KHAN YUNIS (Gaza Strip): A little over a year ago, on a Saturday afternoon midway through Ramazan, a one-kilo mango deal went sour at a Gaza Strip fruit stand....
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Berlin rebuffs pleas for deployment in south: Peacekeeping in Afghanistan
BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel has vowed to keep German peacekeepers in northern Afghanistan and resist attempts to transfer them to the more violent south....
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Violent crisis forces Palestinians to go abroad
RAMALLAH: Imad Hassan, a Palestinian electronics engineer and lecturer, never thought he would want to leave his homeland....
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Sikhs in Afghanistan sad and angry
KANDAHAR: Forced to wear yellow patches in the days of the Taliban, the homesick Sikhs of Afghanistan still hide in back alleys and yearn for India....
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Syria wary after Gemayel’s murder
DAMASCUS: Many in Lebanon have accused Syria of being behind the assassination of Christian politician Pierre Gemayel, but Damascus denies any hand in Tuesday''s attack, which it says damaged its own interests....
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Inequality rising in China: WB
BEIJING: Inequality is on the rise in officially socialist China, with the poorest becoming even worse off, a report says, citing new research by the World Bank....
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Humans not genetically identical, says study
PARIS: New investigations into the code for life suggest the assumption that humans are genetically almost identical is wide of the mark, and the implications could be resounding....
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