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13 killed in mortar attack: Somali president’s residence hit
MOGADISHU, March 13: A mortar attack on Somalia''s presidential residence in Mogadishu on Tuesday left a trail of fatalities nearby, just hours after President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed moved there from a provincial town.... 
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Iran ready to offer guarantees on N-plan
GENEVA, March 13: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Tuesday said Iran was ready to offer “necessary” guarantees on its nuclear programme if the issue was withdrawn from the UN Security Council....
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Mehsud accused of wrecking Helmund peace
LONDON, March 13: The visiting chief security officer of Helmund province, General Nabi Jan, squarely blamed the large-scale terrorism in his province on what he termed cross-border infiltration from Pakistan....
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Halliburton’s relocation denounced
NEW YORK, March 13: Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday denounced oil giant Halliburton’s planned relocation to Dubai....
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Washington’s ME strategy questions foundation of states
LONDON: America’s strategy in the Middle East, devised by Washington’s hawks — the ultra nationalists, neocons and Christian Zionists — smells of oil and domination. It has been based on two objectives....
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Kosovo — a test for Russia
WASHINGTON: Obsessed with Iraq, the Bush administration and the public have paid too little attention to a series of Russian challenges to the stability of Europe....
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Intelligentsia in Poland faces vetting
WARSAW: Andrzej Krawczyk was arrested on a Warsaw street in 1982 with a backpack containing 1,000 pro-democracy leaflets protesting against martial law and the communist crackdown on the Solidarity trade union....
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Slavery still prevalent in all corners of the world
LOS ANGELES: The existence of slavery in the 21st century comes as a shock to many Americans who believe that the institution ended with the Civil War....
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English village leads ‘no carbon’ drive
ASHTON HAYES (England): A small English village last year set itself the aim of becoming the country’s first carbon neutral community — only to be swamped with requests for advice from around the world....
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US-Iran parley light on substance
WASHINGTON: A rare encounter between senior US and Iranian diplomats over the weekend may be a symbolic breakthrough for the long-time foes, but did little to bridge their deep divisions, analysts said.The...
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Al Gore targets internet generation
LONDON: Former US vice-president turned Oscar-winning environmental campaigner Al Gore, on Monday, unveiled the British version of his Current TV network, claiming it was the first example of “television for the internet generation”....
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Germany mum over Iranian defector
ANKARA: German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung on Tuesday refused to confirm or deny press reports that a former Iranian deputy defence minister who went missing in Turkey last month was currently being questioned in Germany....
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IAEA chief in N. Korea
BEIJING: The head of the UN nuclear agency arrived on Tuesday in Pyongyang hoping to win North Korea''s permission for his inspectors to return to the country, four years after they were kicked out....
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China’s Internet surveillance
BEIJIN: China will tighten controls on Internet blogs and webcasts in a response to new technologies that have allowed cyber citizens to avoid government censorship efforts, state press reported Tuesday....
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