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Russia accuses Nato of deception
MOSCOW, Nov 28: Russia was `deceived’ by previous Nato enlargements and considers the expansion of a US defence system in Europe `destabilising’, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Tuesday.... 
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US troops must leave Iraq: Iran
TEHRAN, Nov 28: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told visiting Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Tuesday that US-led forces had to leave Iraq if security was to be restored in the violence-riven country....
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Al Qaeda engineering Iraq killings: Bush
RIGA, Nov 28: US President George Bush on Tuesday parried suggestions that Iraq had sunk into civil war, arguing that a recent upsurge in violence was part of a spiral of sectarian unrest that began nine months ago....
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EU states tried to impede CIA prison probe: Parliament report
BRUSSELS, Nov 28: European countries knew about US secret jails for terrorism suspects and have obstructed an investigation into the transport and illegal detention of prisoners, a draft European Parliament report said on Tuesday....
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US to help Belarus in struggle for ‘freedom’
RIGA, Nov 28: US President George Bush on Thursday slammed the government of Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus and pledged to help the people there in their struggle to join the family of free Europe....
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Law catches up with ‘Deadly’ Dutt
MUMBAI, Nov 28: Indian actor Sanjay Dutt spent much of his life fighting the odds -- drugs, deaths in the family, flop films and a bad marriage -- but bounced back every time....
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Putin may go to Riga for Chirac birthday
PARIS, Nov 28: Russian President Vladimir Putin may go to Latvian capital Riga on Wednesday to celebrate French President Jacques Chirac’s 74th birthday after the NATO summit, Mr Chirac’s office said....
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Palestinian FM carries $20m into Gaza Strip
GAZA CITY, Nov 28: Palestinian Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar of Hamas carried by hand $20 million in cash into the Gaza Strip on today across its border with Egypt, a Palestinian security source said....
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NYT to call Iraq conflict ‘civil war’
NEW YORK, Nov 28: Over White House objections, The New York Times and other US news outlets have adopted the term `civil war’ for the fighting in Iraq, reflecting a growing consensus that sectarian violence has engulfed the country....
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China’s oil demand a basis for ties with Saudi Arabia
LONDON: When Haytham Zamzami began studying Chinese, the rising superpower had only just begun to register on the horizon for Saudi Arabia. Eight years later China is all the rage....
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‘Hot earth’ will support only 500m people: scientist
LONDON: The earth has a fever that could boost temperatures by eight degrees Celsius making large parts of the surface uninhabitable and threatening billions of peoples’ lives, a controversial climate scientist said on Tuesday....
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Wealth gap belittles S. Africa’s achievements
CAPE TOWN: South Africa may have gone a long way towards addressing racial injustices but there is a growing acceptance that its huge wealth gap threatens to derail the achievements of the post-apartheid era....
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Allies not waiting for US signal on pullout
WASHINGTON: A debate over whether to set a timetable for a phased withdrawal of US forces from Iraq is being pre-empted by key US allies who have announced plans to scale back their own forces over the next year, analysts say.The...
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LTTE could go for a big push, says expert
COLOMBO: A solemn vow by the veteran Tamil rebel leader that his people will now pursue their own independent state has set the stage for a return to full-scale war in Sri Lanka, analysts said on Tuesday....
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Spanish civil war still stirs intense debate
MADRID: Spain’s civil war still stirs up intense debate on the evidence today of an academic forum delving into one of the conflict''s worst episodes -- the 1936 massacre perpetrated by General Franco''s forces at Badajoz....
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Crackdown on Egypt opposition
CAIRO: The two forces lined up facing each other inside Ain Shams university campus, the space between them shrinking until the moment of engagement....
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Litvinenko’s death lends credence to conspiracy theories
WASHINGTON: Conspiracy theories always turn out to be nothing more than paranoid fantasy. At their heart lies the notion that while the rest of us blithely go about doing whatever it...
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