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US begins work on Iraq exit strategy
GUATEMALA CITY, March 12: The White House confirmed on Monday that Pentagon planners are preparing a plan for a phased pullout of US troops from Iraq in case the current “surge” strategy fails or is undercut by Congress.... 
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Khatami against confrontation: Nuclear plan
TEHRAN, March 12: Iran’s former president Mohammad Khatami made a rare intervention to urge his hard-line successor to compromise and prevent a crisis with world powers over its nuclear programme, reports said on Monday....
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BBC reporter kidnapped
GAZA CITY: Armed men kidnapped a British correspondent for the BBC after forcing him from his car in the Gaza Strip on Monday, Palestinian security sources said....
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Russia opposes Iran’s ‘anti-US games’
MOSCOW, March 12: Russia will never support Iran getting a nuclear military capability and will not be dragged into “anti-American games,” Russian news agencies reported on Monday, quoting a source close to the authorities....
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India urged to end violence against Dalits
NEW YORK, March 12: The Indian government should take immediate steps to implement the recommendations of a United Nations committee that found persistent violence and discrimination against Dalits, or so-called “untouchables”, a group of international human rights organisations said on Monday....
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Saudi Arabia refutes reports
RIYADH, March 12: Saudi Arabia has strongly refuted media reports that its ambassador to the US, Adel Al-Jubeir, recently had a chance meeting with an Israeli official in Washington....
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Russia’s return to ‘authoritarianism’ Who is to blame?
WASHINGTON: Who lost Russia? As the world’s biggest country backslides ever more quickly into authoritarianism, the answer you hear increasingly is: the United States. Curiously, you hear it both from Russians,...
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US security scares off foreign visitors
GRAND CANYON (Arizona): Maryellen Fleming-Hoffman manages a gift store on the plunging rim of the Grand Canyon, where visitors come to marvel at one of the world’s greatest attractions....
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Diabetes growing in newly-affluent Asia
HONG KONG: A cheese burger one day, lasagne the next and chicken nuggets instead of a bowl of noodles. Across the continent, a newly-affluent Asian middle class is splurging after centuries...
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Anwar Ibrahim strengthens his political prospects
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim plans to return to the helm of his party in a move that burnishes his formal leadership role and projects defiance of a government ban on his political activity....
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Palestinian Christians moving abroad
BETHLEHEM (West Bank): Despairing of life under Israeli occupation, many Palestinian Christians are moving abroad, threatening their ancient links to Bethlehem and the land where Jesus was born....
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Vegetable oil, restaurant grease can run your car
PHILADELPHIA: After a good meal, how about asking the head waiter if you can take the waste grease from the kitchen to fuel your car? In the search for sustainable and...
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Shilpa meets Queen
LONDON: Indian actress Shilpa Shetty said she was desperate to put the “Celebrity Big Brother” race row behind her as she met Britain''s Queen Elizabeth II at a Commonwealth Day event on Monday....
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Malaysia to arrest 500,000 aliens
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia plans to arrest up to half a million illegal foreign workers this year, the immigration enforcement director said on Monday, as officials voice fears over immigrant criminals....
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Woman accused of hiring husband’s killer
BANGKOK: A Thai man arrested over the shooting to death an American businessman last year has claimed that his victim''s wife paid him for the killing, police said on Monday....
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‘Iran general did not defect’
TEHRAN: The family of a former Iranian general who has mysteriously disappeared denied on Monday reports he had defected, describing him as a loyal servant of the Islamic republic who had moved into olive trading....
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Rice varieties
MANILA: The Rome-based Global Crop Diversity Trust and the International Rice Research Institute agreed on Monday to spend $600,000 a year in perpetuity to protect thousands of varieties of rice....
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