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Storm leaves 45 dead across Europe
BERLIN, Jan 19: Europe cleaned up on Friday after a devastating storm that killed at least 45 people, shut down transport systems, disrupted energy supplies and caused more than a billion euros worth of damage.... 
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Israel transfers funds to Abbas
JERUSALEM, Jan 19: Israel handed over $100 million in frozen funds to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority on Friday in an effort to bolster President Mahmud Abbas, locked in a power struggle with the ruling Hamas movement....
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Blair aide arrested in corruption probe
LONDON, Jan 19: Ruth Turner, Director of Government Relations was arrested in the cash-for-honours probe on Friday on suspicion of perverting the course of justice and over alleged honours offences....
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Dropping of arms deal probe questioned
LONDON, Jan.19: The OECD after a two-day deliberation in Paris by its working group on bribery has admonished Britain for dropping a Serious Fraud Office (SFO) inquiry into an alleged fraud relating to a multi-million dollar arms deal with Saudi Arabia.The...
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Sri Lankan army captures rebel town
COLOMBO, Jan 19: The Sri Lankan military captured a strategic town occupied by rebels in the island’s restive east on Friday as over 10,000 refugees fled the area and Tamil Tiger rebels cut a retreat after weeks under siege....
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LTTE accused of growing cannabis
COLOMBO, Jan 19: The Tamil Tiger rebels have begun growing cannabis as a last resort to making big money, the Sri Lankan government charged at a media briefing, showing journalists video clippings of a cannabis farm....
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New US envoy nominated for Kabul
WASHINGTON, Jan 19: US President George W Bush has nominated career diplomat William Wood as the new US ambassador to Afghanistan, the White House announced on Friday....
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Irshad rules out possibility of coup in Bangladesh
DHAKA, Jan 19: Bangladesh’s army is unlikely to step in again this time despite the country’s raging political unrest, its former military dictator says. In an interview, retired general Hussain Mohammad...
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US lawmaker jailed for 30 months
WASHINGTON, Jan 19: A US district court on Friday sentenced a former Republican lawmaker to 30 months in prison for accepting gifts in return for political favours....
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Somali warlords surrender arms to govt
MOGADISHU, Jan 19: Dozens of armoured vehicles and mortars have been handed over by Somali warlords to the Ethiopian-backed government under an accord reached earlier this month, officials said on Friday....
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Brown visits Bollywood, meets Amitabh
MUMBAI, Jan 19: Britain''s finance minister Gordon Brown ended his trip to India on Friday by meeting Bollywood screen icon Amitabh Bachan in Mumbai. Mr Brown will take home with him...
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Support for Shilpa swelling
NEW DELHI, Jan 19: Indians across the country have leapt to the defence of Shilpa Shetty, praising a shining Big Brother performance by an actress who has faced abuse bordering on racism from her uncultured British rivals....
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Canadian parties not in favour of early poll
OTTAWA: Political parties are backing away from the idea of forcing an early Canadian election....
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The enigma called Cheney
WASHINGTON: After six years, it remains one of Washington’s enduring mysteries: How does Vice President Cheney shape decisions in the tight inner circle of the Bush administration? There’s a sense that...
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Two Serbias fighting in key election: Radicals and Democrats
BELGRADE: The glittering Zara flagship store is a must stop for the smart and fashionable girls walking up Knez Mihailova, Belgrade’s main shopping concourse....
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Diplomacy is deal-making
LOS ANGELES: Having worked for six secretaries of State on Arab-Israeli negotiations, I nearly fell off my chair the other day when I read Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s comment to reporters that diplomacy wasn’t about making deals....
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A modernised form of dungeon
DALLAS: Anyone who’s played Dungeons and Dragons the traditional way -- a pen, some paper and a fistful of multisided dice -- will feel right at home in the world of “Neverwinter Nights 2.”...
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Net neutrality bringing innovation to Internet
WASHINGTON: The Internet needs a makeover. Unfortunately, congressional initiatives aimed at preserving the best of the old Internet threaten to stifle the emergence of the new one....
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