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No desire to lock horns with Iran: Rice
WASHINGTON, Feb 22: The United States has no desire to lock horns with Iran and is still ready for talks if Tehran halts its controversial nuclear activities, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview broadcast on Thursday.... 
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Iraqi militants accused of using ‘dirty bombs’
BAGHDAD, Feb 22: As a joint operation by US and Iraqi troops to win control of Baghdad made more progress Thursday, their insurgent foes were fighting back with deadly new tactics, including poison gas attacks....
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16 die in Indonesia ferry fire
JAKARTA, Feb 22: Sixteen people died and 17 were missing after a fire broke out on an Indonesian ferry off Jakarta Bay on Thursday, with desperate passengers hurling themselves off the blazing vessel into the sea....
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181 nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO, Feb 22: A total of 181 people and organisations have been nominated for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Institute said on Thursday, with former US vice president Al...
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Winning Afghan war essential for West: Nato
KABUL, Feb 22: The West must win the war against Islamic militants in Afghanistan or face attacks in their own countries, Nato Secretary-General Jaap De Hoop Scheffer said on Thursday....
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UK, US ‘on the same page’ in Iraq: Browne
LONDON, Feb 22: Britain and the United States are “on the same page” in terms of their respective strategies in Iraq, Britain’s defence secretary insisted in an interview with the BBC on Wednesday....
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Asian rivers being choked by detritus of development
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22: From the mighty Mekong, Yangtze and Ganges to countless smaller waterways, Asia’s rivers sustain the lives of billions of people but breakneck development has put them under unbearable pressure....
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Two soldiers killed in Mogadishu clashes
MOGADISHU, Feb 22: Mortar bombs crashed into Mogadishu''s international airport on Thursday and two government soldiers were killed in clashes with gunmen, in the latest attacks in and around the increasingly violent capital....
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Afghan warlords to demonstrate for amnesty
KABUL, Feb 22: Afghan warlords on Thursday announced plans for a demonstration here in support of a bill that would give amnesty for crimes committed during the country''s years of conflict....
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Saudi Arabia praised for fighting corruption
RIYADH, Feb 22: Almost $800 billion have gone out of the Kingdom due to administrative corruption, says Majed Garoub, a legal consultant and chairman of the lawyers committee at the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry....
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Gujarat Muslims get first bail chance in 5 years NEW DELHI, Feb 22: Nearly 90 Muslim men accused of triggering one of India’s worst communal riots are to be allowed to seek bail after nearly five years in jail without trial, the supreme court ruled on Thursday....
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Iraqi govt closer to Iran than US in vision
BAGHDAD, Feb 22: Even as the US works to crack down on Iran’s role here, it’s becoming clear that the US-backed Iraqi government holds a vision of Iraq’s future that is closer – in key ways – to Tehran than Washington....
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English tests for new immigrants
LONDON, Feb 22: The British government has proposed to make it obligatory on the part of spouses hoping to move to the UK to appear in English tests before being allowed to join their husbands and wives....
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US plans to ‘strike Iran N-sites’
WASHINGTON, Feb 22: The US capital is abuzz with reports that the Bush administration is considering a plan to launch missiles on targets inside Iran....
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US moves to reassure Russia on missile shield
MOSCOW, Feb 22: United States National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley tried to reassure Russia on Thursday that US plans to place elements of a missile defence shield in central Europe were not directed against Moscow....
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Michael Jackson ‘could convert to Islam’: brother
LONDON, Feb 22: Pop singer Michael Jackson could be about to embrass Islam, his brother told a British Muslim newspaper on Thursday....
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Seven killed in S. Lanka
COLOMBO, Feb 22: At least seven people were killed in Sri Lanka’s north-eastern provinces on Thursday as the country marked the fifth anniversary of the violence-rigged ceasefire between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)....
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Medieval Muslims were maths masters: study
WASHINGTON, Feb 22: Designs on surface tiles in the Islamic world during the Middle Ages reveal their makers’ understanding of mathematical concepts not grasped in the West until 500 years later, according to a US study published on Thursday....
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UK to ban ‘junk food’ ads by next year
LONDON, Feb 22: “Junk food” TV adverts aimed at school-age children will be banned in Britain from next year, the UK''s media regulator said on Thursday....
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UK pullout heralds break-up of US ‘coalition’ in Iraq
WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush’s “coalition of the willing”, long seen by much of the world as a shell for a largely US operation in Iraq, is quickly becoming a coalition of the unwilling....
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