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Northern Bangladesh paralysed by protests: US envoy criticises interim govt
DHAKA, Dec 17: Towns and cities in northern Bangladesh came to a halt on Sunday after supporters loyal to a former military strongman enforced a strike to protest a court verdict against him, police said.... 
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Ahmadinejad allies falter in polls
TEHRAN, Dec 17: Moderate opponents of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have made gains in twin Iranian elections, leaving ultra-conservative allies of the president well short of an overall victory, initial results showed on Sunday....
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Ershad ‘missing’ after court sentence
DHAKA, Dec 17: Bangladesh''s former army ruler Hossain Mohammad Ershad was “missing or hiding” on Sunday, three days after the High Court confirmed a two-year jail sentence against him, his associates said....
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BD prisoner returns from Guantanamo
DHAKA, Dec 17: One of the two Bangladeshi prisoners, who had been languishing in Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre in Cuba on charge of militant activities, flew back home on Sunday after five years....
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7 Indian firms listed on UK market
LONDON, Dec 17: Seven large Indian companies — four of them in property and construction — are poised to join London''s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) next year, with more than 20...
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Blair’s party unlikely to win election: memo
LONDON, Dec 17: A purported secret document which Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott said on Sunday may have been drafted on behalf of the government claims voters believe Tony Blair''s Labour...
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How Britain should revitalise its political parties
LONDON: Our politics is strange. We have three large parties that spend most of their energy trying to prove that the other two are wholly unfit to govern....
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Iran vote a wake-up call for Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN: Iranian voters have delivered a warning to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a tandem election that has shaken up the political scene ahead of legislative polls in two years, analysts said on Sunday....
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Abbas pushed into gamble after running out of options
RAMALLAH: By calling new elections, President Mahmoud Abbas could end up losing his job and crowning the Hamas as the sole ruler of the Palestinian territories....
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Biracial people’s struggle
LONDON: All my life, I’ve wanted to find depictions of people who look like me; I''ve searched for stories of those with similar life experiences to mine....
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Web surfing on cellphone to be made easier
LONDON: Google is on the move. The internet giant has held talks with Orange, the mobile phone operator, about a multi-billion-dollar partnership to create a ''Google phone'' which makes it easy to search the web wherever you are....
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Le Pen dynasty’s bid to renew far right
PARIS: Jean-Marie Le Pen is on holiday. The veteran French far right-wing leader is taking a final break before the gruelling political marathon he hopes will take him, if not into...
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