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Seven Iraqi policemen die in suicide attack: Six US soldiers killed
BAGHDAD, Dec 24: A suicide bomber killed seven policemen in the latest deadly attack against Iraqi security forces on Sunday, as the embattled government drew up plans to secure war-torn Baghdad.... 
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Israel to transfer Palestinian cash
JERUSALEM, Dec 24: Israel approved on Sunday the transfer up to 100 million dollars of customs duties owed to the Palestinians, following talks the day before between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and president Mahmud Abbas....
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Ethiopian planes bomb Somali areas
BAIDOA (Somalia), Dec 24 Ethiopian planes dropped bombs and fired missiles on two locations in Somalia on Sunday, witnesses said, as fighting between Somali Islamists and their Ethiopian-allied rivals raged for a sixth day....
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Remember Christ at Christmas, says Pope
VATICAN CITY, Dec 24: Pope Benedict urged the world on Sunday not to shut Christ out of Christmas and to banish prejudices hindering peace....
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Indonesian floods claim 60 lives
JAKARTA, Dec 24: Flash floods have killed more than 60 people in Indonesia with hundreds of others missing and more than 110,000 forced to flee their homes as whole villages were washed away, officials said on Sunday....
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Italian who met poisoned Russian spy arrested ROME, Dec 24: Police in Naples on Sunday arrested the Italian man who met poisoned Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko on the day he fell ill, but apparently on unrelated charges, Italy''s ANSA news agency announced....
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Release of Jordanian ship crew sought
COLOMBO, Dec 24: Diplomatic efforts were under way on Sunday to secure the release of 25 crew members of a Jordanian ship which drifted into the waters of the Liberation Tigers...
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Three criminals hanged in Iran
TEHRAN, Dec 24: Iran has hanged in public three men convicted of drug trafficking and armed robbery in Zahedan, the capital of the southeastern Sistan-e Baluchestan province, the ISNA news agency reported on Sunday....
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5 insurgents shot dead in Afghanistan
KABUL, Dec 24: An air strike by NATO-led forces killed five insurgents in southern Afghanistan while two other rebels were blown up when their bomb exploded prematurely, the interior ministry said on Sunday....
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India border troops kill 5 Bangladeshis
KOLKATA, Dec 24: Five Bangladeshis have been killed after being caught in the crossfire of a shoot-out between Indian and Bangladeshi border troops, police and border officials said on Sunday....
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Neocons and Bush deserve each other
LOS ANGELES: For a long time now, President Bush’s critics — and even many of his erstwhile admirers — have been wondering why he let the neoconservatives fool him on Iraq....
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Was Yeltsin responsible for Russian anarchy?
WASHINGTON: “Great historical transformations are always bought dearly, often after one has already thought that one got them at a bargain price,” wrote the 19th-century historian Jacob Burckhardt....
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Tehran’s showdown over nuclear inspections
VIENNA: Iran increased its foot-dragging on United Nations atomic inspections in the run-up to getting hit by UN sanctions against its nuclear programme, and these problems are now expected to escalate, diplomats said....
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Terrorism overwhelms creative works
WASHINGTON: Any attempt at holiday cheer faces a long, hard Rumsfeldian slog as 2006 ends. Iraq’s conflict has metastasised into a brutal communal war. George W....
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A lull in yuletide battles
LOS ANGELES: It just doesn’t seem like Christmas this year — because there have been so few stories in the media about how the holiday is under siege by secular progressives....
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Christmas trees in Afghanistan
KABUL: In devoutly Muslim Afghanistan, Christmas is like any other day--people go to work, there are no blinking lights lining the streets and pine trees remain unadorned-- except on Flower Street,...
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