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Nato forces kill 22 Taliban
KANDAHAR, Feb 13: Nato and Afghan forces killed 22 Taliban rebels in southern Afghanistan during battles near a besieged dam and a remote town that was captured by the militants, officials said on Tuesday.... 
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Baghdad blast kills 16
BAGHDAD, Feb 13: Another lethal bomb rocked central Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 16 people as security forces battled to save the credibility of a make-or-break security plan after a day of devastating attacks....
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Putin accuses US of using Russia as threat
AMMAN, Feb 13: Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of using Russia as a “threat” to secure funds from Congress for its military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan and for its anti-missile programme in Europe....
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US clashes with China, Russia over space weapons
GENEVA, Feb 13: The United States clashed with China and Russia during a disarmament debate on Tuesday over how to prevent an arms race in outer space, as Washington criticized Beijing for its recent test of an anti-satellite missile....
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65pc voters turn out in Amritsar polls
AMRITSAR, Feb 13: Millions braving heavy rains voted on Tuesday in the northern Indian state of Punjab in a poll which analysts say will test the popularity of India’s ruling Congress party....
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First step towards N-free Korea: Bush
WASHINGTO, Feb 13: US President George W. Bush said on Tuesday that an agreement requiring North Korea to dismantle its nuclear programme in exchange for energy assistance was the first step towards a nuclear weapons free Korean peninsula....
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Details of agreement on N. Korean nukes
BEIJING, Feb 13: The six countries in talks to end North Korea’s nuke programmes agreed on Tuesday on specific disarming steps from Pyongyang in return for aid....
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Work not halted near mosque, says Tel Aviv
JERUSALEM, Feb 13: The Israeli government on Tuesday denied a report that archaeological excavations, as well as building work that sparked Muslim fury near Jerusalem''s most contested holy site, had been abandoned....
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Sanctions can work on Iran too: Israel
JERUSALEM, Feb 13: Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres said on Tuesday that North Korea''s aid-for-disarmamnent deal with the United States shows that diplomatic and economic sanctions can work, and urged the...
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5,000-year-old embrace to be preserved
VALDARO (Italy), Feb 13: Italy won’t split up its Stone Age `lovers’. In a Valentine’s Day gift to the country, scientists said they were determined to remove and preserve together the remains of a couple buried 5,000 to 6,000 years ago,...
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Accord to have no impact on DPRK’s N-weapons plan
SEOUL: The North Korean nuclear deal announced on Tuesday would not immediately stop it from launching an atomic bomb, and experts believe it has enough plutonium to build new such weapons....
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Agreement no model for Iran: experts
VIENNA: The deal struck on North Korea''s nuclear programme is not a model for settling the crisis over Iran''s nuclear programme, analysts said on Tuesday....
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Mandela film wins critics’ acclaim
BERLIN: The 57th International Film Festival in Berlin has got off to a strong start with the South African film Goodbye Bafana on Nelson Mandela’s long incarceration emerging as an early front-runner for honours....
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Hillary will have to explain her failure
WASHINGTON: Yet another man has betrayed Hillary Clinton. This time it’s George W. Bush, who not only deceived her about weapons of mass destruction but, when granted congressional authorisation to go to war in Iraq, actually did so....
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Executions devastate many generations
UNITED NATIONS: “They’re going to kill him because he killed somebody, so when they kill him, who do we get to kill?” asked the ten-year-old daughter of Christina Lawson at the...
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Real-world recruiting in virtual space
NEW YORK: For some job seekers, a trip to a virtual world may hold the key to an actual job....
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‘A product of compromise’
BEIJING: The following are comments on the nuclear disarmament deal reached with North Korea at six-party talks on Tuesday....
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US inaction over HR violations in Darfur frustrates activists
WASHINGTON: Africa and human rights activists who have been pressing US President George W. Bush to take strong measures to halt what he himself has called “genocide” in the Darfur region of Sudan are growing increasingly infuriated with Washington’s inaction....
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