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Turkey’s military, govt clash over Iraq, Kurds
ANKARA, Feb 17: The chief of Turkey’s powerful military General Staff accused Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq of actively backing Turkish Kurd rebels there and said Ankara must take action, a state news agency said on Saturday.... 
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Seven get life for Istanbul blasts
ISTANBUL, Feb 17: A Turkish court sentenced seven people, including a Syrian Al Qaeda militant, to life in prison on Friday for suicide bomb attacks on Jewish and British targets in Istanbul which killed over 60 people in 2003....
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Thousands of Italians decry expansion of US base
VICENZA (Italy), Feb 17: Tens of thousands of Italians under heavy police guard protested on Saturday against the expansion of a US military base that has divided the centre-left government....
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Jemima splits up with Hugh Grant
LONDON, Feb 17: One of Britain''s most glamorous couples, actor Hugh Grant and socialite Jemima Khan, have decided to go their separate ways, the US website People.com reported on Friday....
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Body found in front of TV 1 year after death
NEW YORK, Feb 17: A man’s body was found in his home more than a year after his death, with the television still on and his features preserved by dry conditions in the house, officials said....
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US ignores anger over F-22 stationing
KADENA (Japan), Feb 17: Two US air force F-22A stealth fighters flew into the southern Japan island of Okinawa on Saturday in the first overseas deployment of the aircraft, witnesses said....
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Civilian dies in attack on Lankan troops
COLOMBO, Feb 17: One civilian bystander was killed and five soldiers injured when suspected Tamil Tiger rebels triggered a claymore mine on a military convoy in the northern Jaffna peninsula on Saturday afternoon, military sources said....
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Man shot dead in London
LONDON, Feb 17: A man in his mid-20s was shot dead in London on Saturday, the latest in a series of fatal shootings that has fuelled public concern over gun crime and youth gangs....
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Songwriter Ray Evans dies
LOS ANGELES, Feb 17: Ray Evans, a prolific songwriter who created lasting hits such as “Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)” along with long-time collaborator Jay Livingston, has died at 92, The Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday....
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Neo-cons’ silence over Iran baffles pundits
WASHINGTON: For several weeks now, Washington has been abuzz with rumours that US President George Bush is preparing to attack nuclear and other sites in Iran this spring — rumours deemed...
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‘Bionic eye’: second chance for sight
LONDON: Six blind patients have had their sight partially restored by a “bionic eye” surgically implanted onto their retina. Although it restores only very rudimentary vision, the device has proved so...
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Putin’s aggressiveness does not signal new cold war
WASHINGTON: Vladimir Putin — Russia’s president, although the more accurate title would be godfather —made headlines last week with a speech in Munich that set a new standard in anti-Americanism....
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Bush needs victory in Iraq to bounce back
WASHINGTON: Americans voted against the Iraq war in giving control of Congress to Democrats, and the new Congress is now registering its opposition....
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Antarctica’s ozone layer is in a bad shape
CONCORDIA BASE, (Antarctica): Like bedside doctors huddled in consultation, scientists gather in the bone-cracking cold of Antarctica to examine, several times a day, a very sick patient — the ozone layer....
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Afghan women grow trees to improve their lives
QALAT (Afghanistan): Row upon row of saplings stand in the sun in the capital of Afghanistan’s drought-hit Zabul province where war and poverty have left ancient underground irrigation channels dry and the hills bare....
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A new category of fame
LOS ANGELES: Why is it that most celebrities in the culture today are people I’ve never heard of? I always thought fame had to do with being well known to the...
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