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Abbas, Haniya loyalists clash in Gaza
GAZA, Dec 12: Palestinian security forces loyal to President Mahmud Abbas traded gunfire with Hamas policemen in Gaza on Tuesday as tensions soared after the killing of three young sons of one of Mr Abbas’s top intelligence officials.... 
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Rice criticises Annan’s remarks on US role
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 12: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday joined conservative Republican lawmakers in attacking United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the speech in which he had chided...
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India losing 7,000 unborn girls daily
NEW DELHI, Dec 12: India is losing almost 7,000 girls daily because of the traditional preference for sons which cause many people to abort female foetuses, the UNICEF said on Tuesday....
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Roy appeals for Afzal’s retrial
NEW DELHI, Dec 12: Indian writer Arundhati Roy called on Tuesday for retrial of a Kashmiri man sentenced to death for his role in an attack on India''s parliament in 2001, Mohammed Afzal Guru....
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Pope calls for ethical limits in terror war
VATICAN CITY, Dec 12: Pope Benedict said on Tuesday that states had to set ethical limits to what could be done to protect their people from terrorism and that some countries had flouted international humanitarian law in recent wars....
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Ethiopian ex-dictator convicted of genocide
ADDIS ABABA, Dec 12: An Ethiopian court on Tuesday convicted former dictator Mengistu Haile Miriam of genocide for atrocities committed during his 1974-1991 Marxist regime after a 12-year trial....
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Russia to deliver N-fuel to Iran
MOSCOW, Dec 12: Moscow plans on delivering fuel in March for Iran''s first atomic power plant amid heightened international debate over Tehran''s nuclear programme, Russian state monopoly Atomstroiexport told Russian news agencies on Tuesday....
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Israel will disappear like USSR, says Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN, Dec 12: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted on Tuesday Israel would suffer the same fate as the USSR, as Iran faced a barrage of condemnation for hosting a conference casting doubt on the Holocaust....
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Kuwait signs pact with Nato
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 12: Kuwait on Tuesday signed a security agreement with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation that will enhance its relationship with Nato countries in various fields with special emphasis on security matters....
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EU size exceeding proportions
BRUSSELS: The enlarged European Union is experiencing growing pains as newcomers defend their interests with increasing assertiveness, but the bloc is far from paralysis two weeks before its next eastward expansion....
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Robbery stopped via Internet
SAO PAULO, Dec 12: A Brazilian businessman travelling in Germany watched by live video as a burglar robbed his house on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean in Brazil.He...
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Americans need to know facts about Palestinians
LONDON: The many controversial issues concerning Palestine and the path to peace for Israel are intensely debated among Israelis and throughout other nations - but not in the United States....
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Brain scans validate Freudian view
NEW YORK: People who suffer from what was once called “hysteria” show altered patterns of brain activity connected to their symptoms, researchers have reported....
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A twist in Lebanese tale
BEIRUT: Crowd counting maybe a mathematical science in some countries but not in Lebanon, where it often resembles a political art....
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Gulf states intention is a warning to Bush
LONDON: A weekend decision by the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council to launch an innocent-sounding joint nuclear energy development project is the clearest signal yet that Iran’s nuclear programmes, whether sinister or...
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US confusion alarms Arabs
MANAMA: On top of the violence in Iraq and Iran’s growing ambitions, the oil-rich Gulf monarchies are worried about the perceived political disarray of Washington on whom they rely for their security....
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Homage to fighting ideas
MADRID: It was a war that fuelled passion and anger like almost no other, spurring thousands from all around the globe to come and fight for their ideas....
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