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Ex-KGB spy accuses Putin of murder
LONDON, Nov 24: An ex-KGB spy accused Vladimir Putin of his murder on Friday in a statement read out after his slow death from radiation poisoning, but the Russian president brushed off the accusations as `political provocation’.... 
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Iran accepts IAEA call to submit record
VIENNA, Nov 24: Iran has agreed to hand over records of its uranium enrichment work in a boost to UN efforts to determine whether Tehran seeks nuclear weapons, but diplomats and analysts said more cooperation is needed....
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Afghanistan situation grim: UN
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 24: The head of the UN Security Council''s mission to Afghanistan has painted a grim picture of the situation in the country in the wake of the Taliban’s resurgence, illicit narcotics production and fragile state institutions....
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Nato plans to expand role
LONDON, Nov 24: The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) should expand its role to include counter-terrorism, fighting cyber-crime, and the security of natural resources, according to a confidential document that will...
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Sadr threatens to quit govt
BAGHDAD, Nov 24: The political group of radical Shia leader Moqtada al-Sadr on Friday threatened to pull out of Iraq''s national unity government if Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has a scheduled meeting with the US president in Jordan next week....
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Mistrust torpedoed breakthrough: Hu’s visit to India
BEIJING: Though formally recognising that there is "enough space" for China and India to grow together, the leaders of the world''s two most populous nations failed in charting a common trajectory for their rapidly expanding economies....
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Nato summit to focus on Afghanistan
KABUL: The dominant story lines out of Afghanistan this year can hardly go in the ''''good news'''' column: surging violence that''s killed over 3,700 people, a five-fold increase in suicide bombings and a booming heroin trade consumed primarily by European addicts....
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Lankan crisis irks Tamil Nadu
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s 23-year-old history of war left the country’s political leaders and its people exhausted but it has also created worries for Lanka’s immediate neighbour, India, especially Tamil Nadu....
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Force — ME’s biggest arbiter
WASHINGTON: A disease is eating away at the Middle East. It afflicts the Syrians, the Iraqis, the Lebanese, even the Israelis. It is the idea that the only political determinant in...
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Polish move weakens EU nations
HELSINKI: Divisions between the 25 European Union nations on how to treat the resurgent giant Russia, highlighted by a Polish veto on formal partnership talks, weakened the bloc''s bargaining position at a summit here on Friday, according to analysts and diplomats....
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A lesson for Lebanese students
TYRE (Lebanon): Jamming into schools that escaped the summer war with Israel, students across southern Lebanon have started a difficult year, trying to overcome traumas and learning a life-or-death lesson...
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