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32 die in Turkish plane crash
BAGHDAD, Jan 9: Thirty-two people were killed when a plane carrying mostly Turkish construction workers crashed in bad weather north of Baghdad on Tuesday, the Turkish foreign ministry said....
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BD march on president’s house stopped
DHAKA, Jan 9: The Bangladesh capital turned into a battlefield on Tuesday as protesters, demanding the scrapping of elections later this month, hurled bombs and rocks at police, who responded by firing teargas and rubber bullets....
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Russia halts oil supplies to Europe
MOSCOW, Jan 9: Russian Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko on Tuesday confirmed that Moscow had cut off oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline to Belarus and European markets....
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Bush to send 20,000 troops to Iraq
WASHINGTON, Jan 9: Chairman of the US Senate Armed Services Committee said on Tuesday that he expects President Bush to announce the deployment of additional 20,000 Americans troops to Iraq in his address to the nation on Wednesday....
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Video of Saddam’s body posted on internet
BAGHDAD, Jan 9: A new video of Saddam Hussein’s corpse, with a gaping neck wound, was posted on the Internet early on Monday the second leaked release of clandestine pictures from the former leader’s hanging and its aftermath....
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Manner of Saddam’s execution wrong: Blair
LONDON, Jan 9: British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday that the way Saddam Hussein was executed was `completely wrong’, in his first reaction to the hanging of the former Iraqi leader....
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US N-sub collides with Japanese oil tanker
WASHINGTON, Jan 9: A US Navy nuclear-powered submarine collided with a Japanese oil tanker in one of the world’s busiest seaways but no injuries were immediately reported....
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US declares Iranian bank a weapons proliferator
WASHINGTON, Jan 9: The US Treasury Department on Tuesday named Iran’s state-owned Bank Sepah as a proliferator of weapons of mass destruction and banned all transactions between it and US businesses....
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UK website to update people on terror threats
LONDON, Jan.9: The UK government on Tuesday decided to keep the general public updated through regular e-mails on the prospect of an imminent terrorist attack....
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US slams Chavez move to nationalise power firms
CARACAS, Jan 9: Leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Monday he would ask the legislature to approve the `mother of all revolutionary laws’ giving him the power to nationalise the power and telephone sectors....
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Martial arts master dies
LOS ANGELES, Jan 9: Korean martial arts master Bong Soo Han, who helped revolutionise Hollywood’s understanding of martial arts by creating fight sequences for modern American films, died on Monday....
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War is not the solution : Middle East crisis
LOS ANGELES: Just ten days after Iraq’s government managed to transform Saddam Hussein’s execution from an act of justice into a sectarian revenge killing, the Bush administration is planning a troop...
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Ethiopian action may raise tensions with Eritrea
ASMARA: It was the nightmare scenario that many across the Horn of Africa feared. Ethiopia invades Somalia. Eritrea takes advantage of its arch-foe’s distraction to move into the disputed border zone....
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The least immoral choice
WASHINGTON: I am an Army brat. I have seen the effects of war firsthand. My father fought in World War II and in the Korean War....
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America needs to change tack
WASHINGTON: As our republic enters 2007, Washington is still primarily organised to prevail in the Cold War against the former Soviet Union. Yet today, America and the community of democracies face...
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Slim waist is eternal standard of beauty
PARIS: Feminine beauty has been celebrated across the ages, but an enduring belief is this: what constitutes attractiveness in a woman cannot be pinned down -- it depends on the prevailing...
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Myanmar clings to letter-writing
BANGKOK: A handwritten letter to a military dictator may sound like an ineffective and risky way of conveying defiance especially in this Internet age, where e-mails, blogs and websites have combined to threaten political authority in a number of countries....
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China hopes Japan will stay peaceful
BEIJING: China said on Tuesday it hopes Japan will continue its peaceful post-war policies despite launching its first full-fledged defence ministry since World War II....
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Iran, American neo-cons complement each other
TEHRAN: The resolution passed unanimously on Dec 23 imposed a number of sanctions on Iran, requiring it to suspend all uranium enrichment and reprocessing activities “without further delay”....
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