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US not to rewrite nuclear laws for India: official
WASHINGTON, April 20: The United States has said that it will not change its non-proliferation laws to let India retain the right to resume nuclear weapons testing.... 
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Gates warns Iraq of ‘limited US patience’
BAGHDAD, April 20: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates urged Iraqi leaders on Friday to end sectarian conflict and warned that American troops would not stay on indefinitely if no progress is made....
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India, China discuss border dispute
NEW DELHI, April 20: India and China began another round of talks on Friday to resolve their decades-old border dispute, an official said....
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French presidential rivals make final pleas
PARIS, April 20: Rivals for the French presidency made their final appeals to millions of undecided voters on Friday as the official campaign came to an end ahead of an election seen as too close to call....
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Thailand rejects US military offer
PATTANI (Thailand), April 20: Thailand on Friday rejected a US offer of military assistance to help quell an insurgency in the country''s Muslim-majority south, saying the unrest was an internal matter....
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UN relief efforts in Somalia thwarted
UNNITED NATIONS, April 20: United Nations agencies said on Friday their efforts to help affected population in Somalia are thwarted by the worsening security situation despite their eagerness to help those displaced by violence in the capital Mogadishu....
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Thousands of Britons leave country
LONDOn, April 20: People from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka accounted for two thirds of net immigration into the UK in 2005 with most coming from India followed by Pakistan at number seven, according to the Office of national Statistics....
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EU to renew sanctions against Myanmar
BRUSSELS, April 20: European Union foreign ministers will next week renew sanctions against Myanmar''s military regime, which restrict travel by officials and prevent investment there, an EU official said on Friday....
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Dejected starlet attempts suicide
MUMBAI: A “mentally disturbed” and little-known Bollywood starlet attempted suicide over the wedding of film star Abhishek Bachchan and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai, reports said on Friday....
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China’s dams are ‘time bombs’
BEIJING: Thousands of reservoirs in China are “time bombs” waiting to burst, an official was quoted as saying on Friday, a day after a dam collapse forced the evacuation of 1,700 people....
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Voting right for Washington
WASHINGTON: Lawmakers approved a bill to grant a legislative voting right for the first time to the US federal capital city, to address what critics see as a major undemocratic “flaw” in the US political system....
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Tamil journalist shot dead
COLOMBO: Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Tamil journalist in northern Sri Lanka in the latest in a string of attacks against media personnel, a rights group said on Friday....
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Museum thief jailed
SYDNEY: An Australian museum worker who stole thousands of exhibits, including a stuffed lion and a rare dolphin skeleton, was jailed for seven years on Friday....
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Rice trying to end US unilateralism
WASHINGTON: For the past few years, the United States has been in self-imposed diplomatic isolation in the Middle East. But two paths out of that wilderness are becoming visible, and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is moving cautiously down each one....
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A moment of silence after varsity massacre
WASHINGTON: What can be said about the Virginia Tech massacre? Very little. What should be said? Even less. The lives of 32 innocents, chosen randomly and without purpose, are extinguished most brutally by a deeply disturbed gunman....
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Preparing for the nuclear century
BUDAPEST: Representatives of the nuclear industry met this week to discuss strategies to meet challenges posed by what they assume will be “the nuclear century”....
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EU to make racism a crime
LONDON: Incitement to racial hatred and xenophobia is to become a crime across the EU, although the long-fought agreement avoids singling out Holocaust denial and was watered down after differences between member states....
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Island sorcerer draws on magical energy for cash
SIQUIJOR (Philippines): Riding his motorbike in knee-length jeans and yellow t-shirt, Alberto “Edol” Baroro doesn’t look like the textbook version of a sorcerer....
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North Korea seeks wider banking links
SEOUL: North Korea said Friday it was still working to solve a banking dispute which is blocking progress on its nuclear disarmament, 10 days after the United States said the issue had been settled....
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Therapy helps little after family suicide: study
NEW YORK: Family-based cognitive-behavioural therapy has little effect on many of the aspects of the bereavement following the suicide of a spouse or other family member, Dutch physicians have found....
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Bangladesh: no more an arena for Begums
DHAKA: With Bangladesh’s two main political figures, Sheikh Hasina Wajed and her arch rival Begum Khaleda Zia, facing indefinite exile, people in this impoverished country expect a spell of governance devoid of corruption, political chicanery, religious fundamentalism and violence....
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