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23 killed in Iraq violence: Car bomber attacks Najaf
NAJAF, Feb 21: Insurgents launched bloody attacks in several Iraqi cities on Wednesday, killing more than 23 people as Britain and Denmark announced they would begin withdrawing their troops.... 
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Quartet under pressure to recognise Palestinian govt
BERLIN, Feb 21: The major powers trying to mediate Middle East peace gathered to meet here on Wednesday as pressure mounted for the international community to give the Palestinian unity government a chance....
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Iran vows to continue N-drive
TEHRAN, Feb 21: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed on Wednesday that Iran would continue its nuclear drive at rapid speed, defying the latest UN deadline for Tehran to suspend sensitive atomic activities....
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Missile shield to counter Iran: Rice
BERLIN, Feb 21: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday a planned missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic was designed to counter a threat from Iran and posed no danger to Russia....
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N. Korea can arm missile with N-warhead: experts
SEOUL, Feb 21: North Korea is capable of arming its medium-range Nodong missile with a crude nuclear warhead, two US experts said in a report released on Wednesday....
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Row over UN reform yet to be addressed: Akram
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 21: The chairman of the Group of 77 plus China, Ambassador Munir Akram of Pakistan, said on Tuesday that differences between UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon and the group,...
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Indian state votes amid tight security
NEW DELHI, Feb 21: India''s Himalayan state of Uttarakhand went to the polls on Wednesday amid tight security, two days after blasts on a train headed to Pakistan killed 68 people....
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Philippines army blamed for killings
MANILA, Feb 21: A UN special envoy on Wednesday said the Philippine military was in “almost total denial” about a wave of political murders in the country, many of which he said could be blamed on them....
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Climate change laps around BD shores
BHAMIA (Bangladesh): Global warming has a taste in this village. It is the taste of salt....
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Detentions without charge infuriate Lankans
BOOSSA (Sri Lanka): Huddled outside a detention camp in Sri Lanka’s far south, relatives of civilians held for months without charge say lives are being ruined by emergency regulations amid renewed civil war....
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Newsprint: a precious commodity in Lanka
COLOMBO: Residents of the embattled northern Sri Lankan town of Jaffna who get to see the ‘Uthayan’ newspaper often get a copy that is thumb-worn and soiled from having passed through the hands of many avid readers....
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‘Water’: a true picture of Indian widows
VRINDAVAN (India): The desperate plight of Indian widows depicted in the Oscar-nominated film “Water,” set in the 1930s, remains almost unchanged in this dusty pilgrimage temple town where thousands of them dwell....
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Giving life to children
JAIPUR: Former child prostitute Chand has a burning ambition -- to be a doctor helping India’s destitute millions....
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Woman linked to Nepal massacre to wed Indian
NEW DELHI: Devyani Rana, once the girlfriend of Nepal’s crown prince Dipendra who killed himself and nine family members in a 2001 palace massacre, is due to marry into an Indian family, an official said on Wednesday....
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