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Chirac warns against turning Nato into UN
RIGA, Nov 29: French President Jacques Chirac warned his NATO allies on Wednesday against turning the alliance into a sort of United Nations by losing sight of its military vocation, his office said....
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Indian govt in a spot over minister’s conviction NEW DELHI, Nov 29: The Indian government came under heavy fire from opposition parties on Wednesday after a cabinet minister was convicted of involvement in the murder of an aide to avoid a corruption scandal....
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Dubai to get world’s first ‘turning tower’
DUBAI, Nov 29: Dubai, where a skyscraper billed as the world’s tallest is taking shape, will claim another first with the construction of a turning tower, developers said on Wednesday....
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Man held for trying to sell lock of pharaoh hair
GRENOBLE (France), Nov 29: A 50-year-old Frenchman has been arrested for trying to sell locks of hair he said were taken from the mummy of Egypt’s most famous pharaoh, Ramses II, officers said on Wednesday....
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Russia criticises West’s strategy
MOSCOW, Nov 29: The Kremlin criticised Nato’s record in Afghanistan on Wednesday, saying the Taliban resistance was the `price to pay’ for a strategy of `courting’ members of the ousted government....
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US urged to make amends for past: Ahmadinejad’s letter to Americans
NEW YORK, Nov 29: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a letter to the American people on Wednesday told them that it was possible for US government `to remedy some of the...
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Caveats for Afghanistan troops removed
RIGA, Nov 29: NATO leaders expressed solidarity with insurgency-hit Afghanistan on Tuesday and all committed to allowing their troops to be used in emergencies, an alliance official said....
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EU body calls for suspending Turkish talks
BRUSSELS, Nov 29: The European Commission on Wednesday dealt a blow to Turkey’s EU membership ambitions, recommending a partial freezing of the talks process over Ankara’s hardline stance on Cyprus....
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US to reinforce Baghdad troops
WASHINGTON, Nov 29: The United States is likely to move more than 1,000 troops into Baghdad from elsewhere in Iraq, a US defence official said on Wednesday....
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Pope celebrates first mass on Muslim soil
EPHESUS (Turkey), Nov 29: Pope Benedict XVI began the religious leg of his four-day visit to Turkey on Wednesday by celebrating his first mass on Muslim soil and making a fresh appeal for peace in the Middle East....
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LTTE already has a ‘state’ of its own
COLOMBO: The Tamil Tigers have renewed a campaign to partition Sri Lanka, but the guerrillas already have a surreal separate “state”of their own....
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Indian Maoists sulk as Nepal’s comrades make peace
GARHWA (India): Maoist rebels may be laying down their weapons in Nepal, but over their border in India their ideological brethren are still talking the language of armed revolution and the destruction of capitalism....
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An Afghan bomber sheds light on motives
KABUL: Mumtaz Ahmad spent more than three years at a madressah in Pakistan learning the holy Quran, then pursued his pious desire to become a Qari at a similar Islamic religious school in Kabul....
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Sanjay may escape long jail term
NEW DELHI: One of Bollywood’s biggest stars, Sanjay Dutt, who was convicted on Tuesday of illegally possessing weapons, is unlikely to be sent to prison for a long period -- sending...
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W. Bengal to outlaw hand-pulled rickshaws KOLKATA: They have been a feature of Kolkata''s streets for more than a century, but communist authorities in the sprawling city want an end to the “inhuman” sight of emaciated men pulling rickshaws....
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A generation needed to make Afghanistan opium-free: UN
KABUL: Afghanistan will take a generation to wipe out the opium trade, which is fed by graft and the grip of a small but increasingly powerful band of drug lords with political connections, a new UN and World Bank report says....
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A tradition that ridicules the ‘clash of civilisations’ theory
LONDON: One of the most striking exhibits in the current British Museum exhibition, Myths of Bengal, is the beautiful Gazi scroll -- not just for its rich colours and vivid figures,...
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Bhutan plays songs to educate voters
GUWAHATI: Bhutan''s two state-owned radio stations are playing songs specially composed to teach the Himalayan kingdom''s citizens about voting ahead of its first-ever general elections in 2008, officials said on Wednesday....
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