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Ambush kills 14 Indian soldiers
RANCHI, Dec 2: Fourteen Indian paramilitary soldiers died on Saturday when a landmine planted by suspected Maoist rebels exploded in the troubled eastern state of Jharkhand.... 
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Singh warns of curtailing army’s powers
NEW DELHI, Dec 2: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday warned he would curtail draconian powers accorded to India’s million-plus military to stamp out militancy in insurgency-hit north-eastern states....
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Afghan opium cultivation up by 61pc
WASHINGTON: Opium poppy cultivation shot up a whopping 61 per cent in Afghanistan this year in a setback for US and Nato efforts to clamp down on the country''s illegal drug industry, according to new figures released by the White House....
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Philippines tragedy leaves few survivors
LEGASPI (Philippines), Dec 2: Rescuers arrived in this devastated Philippines city on Saturday as officials warned there would be few survivors from giant mudslides which swept away entire villages, killing hundreds....
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Bush seeks Democrats’ support on Iraq
WASHINGTON, Dec 2: Two days after returning from a key summit meeting with the Iraqi prime minister, US President George Bush urged opposition Democrats on Saturday to work with him in ending unabated violence in Iraq....
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BD president holds talks with Khaleda
DHAKA, Dec 2: President Iajuddin Ahmed set up meetings with the leaders of Bangladesh’s two main political parties on Saturday to discuss a deepening political crisis before parliamentary elections next month....
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Ex-Russian PM suffered ‘radical change’: doctor
MOSCOW, Dec 2: Former Russian prime minister Yegor Gaidar’s vital functions went through ‘radical changes’ when he suffered a still unexplained illness last week in Ireland, an aide quoted Irish doctors as saying on Saturday....
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Riyadh squashes talk of intervention
RIYADH, Dec 2: Saudi Arabia on Saturday denied it is ready to launch a `massive’ intervention to help Iraq’s Sunni community against ‘Iran-backed Shia attacks’ if the US pulls out its troops....
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Army threatens to remove govt in Fiji
SUVA, Dec 2: Fiji’s military commander Voreqe Bainimarama declared he was in charge of the country as Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase returned to the capital Suva on Saturday in an attempt to avert a looming coup....
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Cuba remakes weapons with US threat in mind
HAVANA: Cuba''s mechanics, famed for keeping vintage 1950s US cars on the road, have brought their magic to the military, tweaking, chopping and retooling Soviet-era war machinery, eying a potential US threat....
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The Russian who knew too much
MOSCOW: A renegade former officer with the Russian security services flees his homeland after falling out with its powerful leader, and then dies in mysterious circumstances in a faraway capital....
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Corruption costing Iraq $4bn a year
WASHINGTON: The Iraqi government is in danger of being brought down by the wholesale smuggling of the nation''s oil and other forms of corruption that together represent a "second insurgency", according to a senior US official....
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Nepal in the front line of global climate change
KATHMANDU: Schoolteacher Sherbahadur Tamang walks through the southern Nepalese village of Khetbari and describes what happened on September 9: "During the night there was light rain but when we woke, its intensity increased....
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Private firms turning asylum-seekers’ plight into profit
LONDON: The riots at Harmondsworth immigration removal centre will surprise no one who knows what goes on behind the doors of privately run detention centres, where some 2,000 asylum-seeking men, women...
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Another billionaire named in Saudi arms deal inquiry LONDON: Another billionaire Saudi middleman was named last night in the Serious Fraud Office''s controversial Saudi arms deal inquiry, according to potential witnesses. The SFO is seeking information about any Swiss...
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