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Military seizes power in Fiji
SUVA (Fiji), Dec 5: Fiji''s military commander overthrew the elected government and seized control of the country on Tuesday, staging the troubled Pacific nation''s fourth coup in two decades.... 
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BD govt succumbs to opposition pressure: Voters’ list to be revised
DHAKA, Dec 5: Bangladesh''s controversial election commission bowed to pressure on Tuesday and agreed to revise an electoral roll that opposition parties say is packed with 14 million ghost voters, government and US officials said....
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Shia leader meets Bush 44 killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Dec 5: At least 44 people were killed in a wave of mainly anti-Shiite attacks in Baghdad on Tuesday after a Shia leader asked US President George W....
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US not winning in Iraq: Gates
WASHINGTON, Dec 5: US defence secretary nominee Robert Gates admitted on Tuesday the United States is not winning the war in Iraq, and said he was open to all options to stop the conflict spiralling into regional chaos....
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Five Tamil Tigers held, explosives seized
COLOMBO, Dec 5: Police claimed on Tuesday to have seized a lorry fitted with explosives and arrested five Tamil Tigers....
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114 wash up on Thai shores
BANGKOK, Dec 5: Over 100 refugees from Myanmar were arrested when their boat washed up on Thai shores early on Tuesday after at least 10 days afloat at sea, police and rights workers said....
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Pessimism growing among Arabs, says survey
RIYADH, Dec 5: The Arab world is less confident today about its future than before, a survey carried out by Zogby International (ZI) has revealed....
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Two pc own half of global wealth: study
HELSINKI, Dec 5: The world''s richest two per cent of adults own more than half of global household wealth, while half the world''s population own only one per cent, a UN report published on Tuesday showed....
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Saudi clerics told to reject militancy
RIYADH Dec 5: Religious scholars need to do a lot more to handle the rise of militancy among the Saudi youth, Interior Minister Prince Naif bin Abdul Aziz said on state television....
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Brazil creates world’s biggest forest preserve
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 5:Brazil''s Para state has created the world''s biggest forest preserve, the size of Bangladesh, north of the Amazon River, one third of which will be entirely off limits to development....
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Spurning Turkey not in the best interest of EU
LONDON: Today, as in the past, Turkey embodies transcendent political questions. Can west and east live in harmony? How can secular and religious values best coexist? Are minorities and human rights...
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Censorship fears rise as Iran blocks access to top websites
TEHRAN: Iran on Monday shut down access to some of the world''s most popular websites. Users were unable to open popular sites including Amazon.com and YouTube following instructions to service providers to filter them....
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Bolton: a ‘bully’ or skilled diplomat?
UNITED NATIONS: The resignation of John Bolton as US ambassador to the United Nations ends an era when the focus of Washington diplomacy often rested, for better or for worse, on the man himself....
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Those who fight for Palestine can’t be treated as terrorists
LONDON: The Arab-Israeli conflict is unlike any other regional conflict. As the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, put it: "No other conflict carries such a powerful symbolic and emotional charge among people far removed from the battlefield."...
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Purpose of British N-arms unclear
LONDON: The words "nuclear deterrent" occur more than any other in the defence white paper published on Monday, but at no point is the document clear about who or what a new generation of British nuclear weapons is intended to deter....
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Skip the toilet, save the planet
BEIJING: Could it be the first flush of environmental awareness in China? One of the country''s leading airlines has begun encouraging passengers to use the toilet before they board flights as a way of saving energy....
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A sweeping fall for German legislator
DUSSELDORF: A term serving your country as an MP should by rights not go unrewarded. But exiting politics does not always open the door to lucrative book contracts and lecture tours....
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