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US can’t stop N-tests, dictate Iran policy: Singh NEW DELHI, Dec 18: Even as US President George W. Bush ratified a landmark nuclear cooperation deal with India on Monday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh told parliament that New Delhi would... 
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Iran within four years of N-bomb, says Israel
JERUSALEM, Dec 18: Iran will have its first atomic bomb within three or four years if its nuclear weapons programme continues to develop at the current pace, Israel''s spy chief Meir Dagan said on Monday....
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Tehran to replace dollar with euro
TEHRAN, Dec 18: Iran announced on Monday it would replace the dollar with the euro in foreign transactions and state-held foreign assets, in an apparent response to mounting US pressure on its banking system....
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Gates sworn in as US defence chief
WASHINGTON, Dec 18: Former CIA director Robert Gates was sworn in as US defence secretary on Monday giving new leadership to a military strained by war and faced with critical decisions on a faltering mission in Iraq....
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Blast hits Nato convoy in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Dec 18: An explosion struck a convoy of Nato troops in southern Afghanistan on Monday, damaging a vehicle but there was no immediate word on casualties, witnesses and a Nato official said....
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40,000 more troops needed in Iraq: US
WASHINGTON, Dec 18: A key Pentagon adviser on Sunday proposed sending additional 40,000 troops to Iraq for at least a year while a prominent Democratic lawmaker said he would not oppose a temporary increase in US forces in Iraq....
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20,000 civilians flee areas in LTTE control
COLOMBO, Dec 18: Over 20,000 Tamil civilians have fled areas under the Tamil Tiger rebels in the eastern Battiocaloa district in the past six weeks following heavy fighting between the Tiger guerrillas and the military, humanitarian sources said....
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N. Korea calls for lifting of sanctions
BEIJING, Dec 18: North Korea defiantly refused on Monday to give up its nuclear weapons unless global sanctions against it were lifted, as the United States warned it was losing patience with the reclusive nation....
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Indian politician’s son convicted of model’s murder
NEW DELHI, Dec 18: An Indian court on Monday convicted the son of a ruling party politician for the murder of a young model in a packed New Delhi bar, bringing an end to a seven-year-old scandal....
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UK police launch identity project
LONDON, Dec 18: The increasingly diverse demands on the British police from communities of various faiths, languages and cultures have given birth to a new project within the institution under which...
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European Muslims face discrimination
BRUSSELS, Dec 18: Muslims in Europe face wide-spread discrimination in employment, education and housing but the extent and nature of such prejudice and Islamophobic incidents against European Muslims remain under-documented and...
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Early polls: Abbas takes the gamble
RAMALLAH: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s call for elections could rebound on Fatah as the faction had done little to improve its standing and unite its ranks after Hamas beat it in January, analysts and officials said....
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Iraq occupation kills education
BAGHDAD: Two in three children in Iraq have simply stopped going to school, according to a government report. Iraq’s Ministry of Education says attendance rates for the new school year, which started Sept 20, are at an all-time low....
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A new Mideast or wishful thinking?
WASHINGTON: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice obviously thinks that former secretary of state James Baker just doesn’t get how the Mideast has changed since he last plied the peacemaking shuttle 15 years ago....
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Solution to suppression
MOSCOW: Free and open debate has become a rarity in Russia’s media which is mostly controlled by the state or business moguls. In a country where three high-profile journalists have been...
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Asian Americans enjoying fruit of patience
LOS ANGELES: Sacramento— The pictures are striking, at least for this native Californian who has read and observed a bit of state history. Lined up side by side in a photo...
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Film mars Sierra Leone’s image
FREETOWN: The Hollywood movie “The Blood Diamond” about gem smuggling in Africa could hinder Sierra Leone’s post-war recovery as its struggles to legitimise its vital diamond exports, officials in the West African state say.The...
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Moroccan reform push lacks credibility
RABAT: Morocco is struggling to decide what kind of democracy it should become after years of cautious reform helped the north African kingdom shed a repressive past. Its dilemma will sharpen as the clock ticks down to elections next year in which the business elite’s message of secular modernity faces a challenge from resurgent Islamists....
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