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Iran troops kill 17 rebels in clashes
TEHRAN, March 1: Iranian security forces killed 17 rebels in the latest clashes in West Azarbaijan province close to the Turkish and Iraqi borders in northwest Iran, a Revolutionary Guards commander said on Thursday.... 
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Bomb attack at Iraqi cop''s wedding kills 7
FALLUJAH, March 1: A car exploded outside an Iraqi policeman''s wedding reception in the western city of Fallujah on Thursday, killing at least seven people, police Captain Ahmed Faisal said....
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Blast claims eight lives in India
RAIPUR (India), March 1: At least eight people including security forces were killed on Thursday in a landmine blast triggered by suspected Maoist rebels in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, police said....
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Two die in Afghan blast
KABUL, March 1: A bomb targeting a provincial police chief''s vehicle in western Afghanistan killed two people and wounded 53 on Thursday while authorities found the bullet-riddled body of a kidnapped doctor....
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UK to pull out troops from Bosnia
LONDON, March 1: Britain is to withdraw almost all of its 600 troops from Bosnia-Hercegovina, a minister said on Thursday amid claims London is being forced to “scratch around” for extra manpower to send to Afghanistan....
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Kissinger warns against hardliners’ victory
WASHINGTON, March 1: A period of extreme turbulence will follow if the Iraq war ends in an ‘Islamic fundamentalism’ that can claim to have ejected Russia from Afghanistan and the United...
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The 2008 US presidential hopefuls
WASHINGTON, March 1: Senator John McCain late on Wednesday joined a growing field of Republicans and Democrats vying for their party''s nomination for the November 2008 US presidential election....
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A setback for BD Nobel laureate
DHAKA, March 1: It seems a real political setback for the Bangladeshi Nobel Peace laureate, Professor Muhammad Yunus, who has recently floated a political party. His presence at the convocation of...
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Who was that briefer on Cheney''s plane?
WASHINGTON, March 1: The senior Bush administration official who briefed anonymously on Vice-President Dick Cheney''s visit to Afghanistan and Pakistan sounded suspiciously like, well, Cheney himself....
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China urges diplomacy to solve Iran crisis
BEIJING, March 1: China repeated its position on Thursday that Iran''s nuclear standoff should be resolved through diplomacy and negotiation....
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Anti-corruption drive makes polls uncertain in BD
DHAKA: With their eternal squabbling and pitched street battles, Bangladesh’s two main political parties have not only scuttled national elections set for Jan 22 but also created a situation where a state of emergency may continue indefinitely....
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Division along party lines growing in US
WASHINGTON: The story of 2006 was that regular Americans were sick of partisan divisions in Washington. The vast and consensus-hungry middle asserted itself in November, the narrative went, finally ordering the...
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Genocide impossible to prove in court?
LOS ANGELES: Does the international law against genocide have force today? Or is it that genocide, a powerful political and rhetorical tool, is nearly impossible to prove in court?...
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Medicine addiction a new threat
BRUSSELS: A growing number of people are getting addicted to tranquillisers and other prescription drugs, and this abuse is set to exceed illicit drug abuse, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) warns in a report published on Thursday....
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Slovakia foreign policy to shift into an unusual direction
BUDAPEST: Robert Fico, the charismatic Prime Minister of Slovakia, is shifting his country’s foreign policy into an unusual direction in this traditionally pro-US region....
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China to bridge rural education gap
ZHUANGZITOU (China): Xiao Wei’s family is struggling to ensure their little girl will have more than a primary education, but in the villages of north-western China, the odds are stacked against her....
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Kennedy confidant Schlesinger dies at 89
NEW YORK: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Kennedy insider who helped define mainstream liberalism during the Cold War has died at 89....
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Austen novel is Britons’ favourite
LONDON: Jane Austen’s “Pride And Prejudice” topped a poll of Britons’ 100 favourite books released on Thursday indicating that classic novels are still most people’s idea of a good read ahead of modern offerings....
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India lifts ban on TV channel AXN
NEW DELHI: India has lifted a ban on satellite television channel AXN after it apologised for broadcasting programmes like the “World''s Sexiest Advertisements” that were criticised by regulators for being in bad taste....
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Bomb threat at US embassy
JAKARTA: The US embassy in Jakarta received a bomb threat on Thursday relayed by police, an embassy spokesman said....
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