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US forces kill 14 guerillas in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Dec 7: US forces blasted buildings in the restive Iraqi city of Ramadi with tank fire, killing 14 insurgents, the US military said on Thursday.... 
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Russia, Kazakhstan launch joint venture: Uranium production
ZARECHNOYE, Dec 7: A joint venture between Russia and Kazakhstan produced its first tonne of uranium in Kazakhstan on Thursday in a move that helps Russia secure cheap supplies of the radioactive metal....
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US has nukes in S. Korea: North
MOSCOW, Dec 7: North Korea believes Washington has atomic weapons deployed in South Korea and it will not halt its nuclear programme as long as this threat persists, Itar-Tass news agency quoted a North Korean source as saying on Thursday....
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10 suspects deported from Egypt
CAIRO, Dec 7: Egypt on Thursday deported 10 French and Belgian Islamists suspected of links with terrorist organisations to Belgium, airport officials said....
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Freak tornado hits street in London
LONDON, Dec 7: Six people were injured when a freak mini-tornado hit a London street on Thursday, ripping roofs off houses, uprooting trees and sending debris flying, witnesses and officials said....
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Turkey’s offer sows confusion among EU governments: Membership talks
HELSINKI, Dec 7: A last-minute offer by Turkey to open a major port to traffic from Cyprus in a bid to avert a partial suspension of its European Union membership talks sowed confusion among EU governments on Thursday....
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Israel rejects Iraq report, refuses talks with Syria
TEL AVIV, Dec 7: The Israel''s prime minister said on Thursday it was wrong to link the Arab-Israeli conflict with wider problems in the Middle East and ruled out any immediate talks with Syria despite a US report calling for them....
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Norwegian envoy to meet LTTE leadership
COLOMBO, Dec 7: President Mahinda Rajapakse said on Thursday he had given permission for special Norwegian peace envoy Jon Hansen Baur to visit the LTTE headquarters despite requesting earlier to Norway to abandon its links with the guerilla group....
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Somali Islamists warn of wider conflict in region
MOGADISHU, Dec 7: Somalia''s powerful Islamists on Thursday warned that a UN Security Council decision to deploy peacekeepers will multiply “the number of graves” in the country as it threatened to step up a conflict against the weak Somali government....
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OIC advises Iraq sects to heed Makkah pact
JEDDAH, Dec 7: Islamic states called on clerics from Iraq''s warring Shia and Sunni sects on Thursday to urge their followers to respect an October pledge to refrain from shedding the blood of Muslims....
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Ukraine’s joining Nato to affect ties: Russia
KIEV, Dec 7: The Russia''s defence minister said on Thursday that it was Ukraine’s sovereign right to join Nato, but warned that the ex-Soviet republic’s membership in the alliance would strain relations with Moscow....
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Canada’s leader wants Marshal Plan for Afghanistan
OTTAWA, Dec. 7: Canada’s main opposition leader Stéphane Dion said here on Wednesday he''ll have little patience for the rising death toll of Canadian troops in Afghanistan unless there is progress in making that country more secure....
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Hezbollah vows not to stop Lebanon protests
BEIRUT, Dec 7:Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah vowed on Thursday that the Lebanese opposition will not “surrender” in its mass protests to bring down the Western-backed government....
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Israelis angered by Gates’ nuclear ‘confirmation’
JERUSALAM, Dec 7: Robert Gates, the incoming US Secretary of Defense, won plaudits in Washington this week for his candour on the Iraq war. Some Israelis were less pleased, however, to...
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Haniyeh in Iran
TEHRAN, Dec 7: Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh arrived in Tehran on Thursday for talks with top officials in the Islamic state, a key financial backer of his Hamas government....
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Guantanamo general named Nato mly chief
MONS (Belgium), Dec 7: The US general formerly responsible for the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officially took command of Nato forces on Thursday at the alliance''s military headquarters in Belgium....
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Ex-Bulgarian PM dies
SOFIA, Dec 7: Former Bulgarian Prime Minister Luyben Berov died on Thursday at the age of 81. He ruled a transition government after the 1989 fall of communism....
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Russian probe implicates multinational
MOSCOW, Dec 7: Russian police said on Thursday they had opened a fraud investigation into computer purchases by the state pension fund from a local branch of computer giant IBM and...
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Disaster of Iraq war revealed on the road to Baghdad
BAGHDAD: One of the most difficult jobs for the US Iraq Study Group has perhaps been to pinpoint the moment that Iraq started to go wrong....
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