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Car bombs leave 24 dead in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Feb 5: Three car bombs killed 24 people and wounded scores here on Monday as war-weary residents awaited the start of a sweeping US-Iraqi crackdown on sectarian violence in the city.... 
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42 Yemeni troops killed in clashes with rebels
SANAA, Feb 5: At least 42 Yemeni soldiers have been killed and 81 wounded in over a week of sporadic clashes with Shia rebels in the north of the country, a Yemeni official said on Monday....
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Six found shot dead in German hotel
ROTENBURG (Germany), Feb 5: Three men and three women were found shot dead in a Chinese restaurant in northern Germany in the early hours of Monday, police said....
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N-aid to Iran be cut: diplomats
VIENNA, Feb 5: The United States and other Western nations want considerable cuts in the UN nuclear agency’s aid to Iran but face stiff opposition from non-aligned states, diplomats said....
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Indonesian floods render 350,000 homeless
JAKARTA, Feb 5: Indonesian rescuers, police and troops in inflatable boats on Monday helped evacuate Jakarta residents stranded in severe floods that have killed 29, as the number left homeless approached 350,000....
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Party planning safe exit for Blair
LONDON, Feb 5: The ruling Labour Party is said to be making a contingency exit plan for Prime Minister Tony Blair if charges appear likely in the cash-for-honours inquiry....
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Mahathir terms Bush, Blair war criminals
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 5: Former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad condemned British premier Tony Blair and US President George W. Bush as “child killers” and “war criminals” as he launched an anti-war conference on Monday....
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Bangalore firms, schools closed after water ruling
BANGALORE, Feb 5: Wary of a repeat of deadly 1991 riots, many businesses and schools in India''s technology hub of Bangalore shut early on Monday after a tribunal ruled on a centuries-old water dispute between two states....
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Merkel briefs Gulf leaders on peace efforts
ABU DHABI, Feb 5: German Chancellor Angela Merkel met Emirati President Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan on Monday as part of her talks with Gulf leaders on international efforts to revive the Middle East peace process....
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Hyundai chief jailed for three years
SEOUL, Feb 5: A South Korean court on Monday sentenced the head of the Hyundai Motor Group to three years in jail, sweeping aside widely-held expectations of a suspended sentence....
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India’s climate policy criticised
NEW DELHI, Feb 5: As one of the world''s top polluters and a country likely to be severely hit by global warming, India needs to develop a clear policy on climate change, the head of a UN panel said on Monday....
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Interpol urged to arrest Israeli spies
CAIRO, Feb 5: Egypt asked the international police organisation Interpol on Monday to arrest three Israelis it accuses of being part of a spy ring, judicial and security sources said....
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Bush’s recklessness would pour fuel on the fires of ME
LOS ANGELES: Despite anguish and anger over the Bush administration’s decision to escalate its failing war in Iraq, Congress is unlikely to cut off funding. Even most opponents of the war...
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Iraqi cops selling arms on the black market
BAGHDAD: Like many of his colleagues, Abu Zaid was issued an Austrian-made Glock pistol when he joined the new US-trained and equipped Iraqi police force....
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WTO case will not affect US-China trade ties
BEIJING: China is hardly best pleased with Washington for complaining to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) about its export policies, but the dispute is unlikely to do serious damage to what...
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Human rights groups condemn army-backed arrests in BD
DHAKA: The detention of over a dozen high-profile politicians by the military-backed interim government in Bangladesh, on Sunday, has raised a storm of protests by rights groups and the country’s two main political parties....
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DNA tests save convicts in US
ATLANTA: Willie Williams smiled but looked stunned as he emerged from Fulton County jail one night last month, more than two decades after he was jailed for a rape he did not commit....
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Fate of Kosovo still undecided
BELGRADE: The long awaited United Nations proposal on the status of the southern Serbian province Kosovo takes it towards independence, but not all the way....
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Prosperity brings pollution to China
BEIJING: Following the release of an authoritative United Nations report that unequivocally links human activities with climate change, the rulers of the world’s most populous country are faced with the quandary of balancing prosperity against pollution....
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80m-year-old petrified tree found
TASHKENT: An 80 million-year-old petrified tree stump found in northwestern Uzbekistan could unlock the secrets of flourishing ancient plant life in what is now a bleak Central Asian landscape, Uzbek scientists said on Monday....
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