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80 Taliban killed in Helmand: Nato
KANDAHAR, Dec 4: About 80 Taliban fighters were believed killed in a clash with Nato-led troops and Afghan security forces in insurgency-hit southern Afghanistan at the weekend, a Nato spokesman said on Monday.... 
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Three shot dead in BD gunbattle
DHAKA, Dec 4: Three people were shot dead and 11 wounded in a gunbattle in Bangladesh on Monday as the opposition stepped up their crippling nationwide blockade ahead of disputed national elections.The...
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13 US troops die in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Dec 4: Thirteen US troops were killed in Iraq over the weekend including four in a military helicopter crash in the restive west of the country, the US military said on Monday....
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13 Maoist rebels killed
RAIPUR (India), Dec 4: Indian security forces have killed at least 13 Maoist rebels in the restive central state of Chhattisgarh, police said on Monday. The rebels were killed late on...
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US envoy to UN resigns
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 4: The controversial US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, has tendered his resignation and will step down at the end of this year, US officials said....
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Chavez voted back to power, promises ‘new democracy’
CARACAS, Dec 4: Venezuela''s anti-US President Hugo Chavez won a landslide re-election on Sunday, which he said would launch an era of “new democracy” in the South American country....
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Blair unveils plan to modernise N-arsenal
LONDON, Dec 4: Prime Minister Tony Blair unveiled plans on Monday to modernise Britain''s nuclear deterrent, cutting the number of warheads but warning that disarming would be dangerous as new terrorist threats emerge....
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HRW team in S. Arabia on fact-finding mission
RIYADH, Dec 4: A delegation of the US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) is here on the first extensive fact-finding mission in Saudi Arabia on a three-week visit....
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Coup fears looming over Fiji
SUVA (Fiji), Dec 4: Troops in Fiji seized the weapons of the island nation''s only armed police unit on Monday in a move the police described as unlawful amid soaring tensions over a looming military coup....
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Tests for residency seekers in Britain
LONDON, Dec 4: People wanting to live permanently in Britain will have to prove their proficiency in the English language and demonstrate their knowledge of life here from next year, the government said on Monday....
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Delhi residents phoned to quit smoking
NEW DELHI, Dec 4: Residents in the Indian capital are receiving phone calls from city health workers asking them to quit smoking under a new public health campaign, a report said on Monday....
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Lebanese army on alert after street fight
BEIRUT, Dec 4: The Lebanese army was on high alert on Monday after a backer of the Shia opposition was killed in a Beirut street fight with government supporters, a correspondent said....
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Norway urged to suspend contacts with LTTE
COLOMBO, Dec 4: The Sri Lankan government has asked Norway, which plays the role of facilitator in the country’s troubled peace process, to stop all contacts with the LTTE, until further notice....
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Youth think ‘war on terror’ is counter-productive: poll
LONDON: Young people overwhelmingly believe the US-led "war on terror" is not making the world safer, according to a poll conducted in major cities across the globe....
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Old Palestinian women ‘rush to martyrdom’
BEIT HANOUN (Gaza): In the centre of Beit Hanoun, there is nothing left of the 800-year-old mosque but the minaret. It looks like a lighthouse stranded in a sea of rubble....
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Rivalry, fears hamper moves for Asian bloc
KUALA LUMPUR: Asia’s progress towards a European Union-style grouping is being hampered by traditional regional suspicions and growing disquiet over the motivations of economic giants China and Japan, experts said on Monday....
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Westerners wary of China’s economy, says poll BRUSSELS: Nearly 60 per cent of Europeans and Americans see China’s growing economic power as a threat, although they are becoming more positive about globalisation in general, an opinion poll showed on Monday.The...
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Woman warriors change military landscape
BAGHDAD: A goodwill mission to deliver kerosene heaters to Iraqi schools erupts into the fiery chaos of a roadside bombing -- and Maj. Mary Prophit shields a comrade so he can rescue a critically-burned Iraqi soldier....
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Russophobes gunning for Putin
LONDON: Three weeks on, we are still no closer to knowing who was responsible for the death of the former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko. The use of polonium 210 as a murder weapon could point in entirely opposite directions....
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Philippines army claims routing militants
JOLO ISLAND (Phillipines): It was swift and it was deadly -- a night-time assault on the rebel Abu Sayyaf Group cloaked in smothering jungle foliage on the restive southern Philippines island of Jolo....
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