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Truce with Israel over: Hamas
GAZA CITY, April 24: The armed wing of the Palestinian movement Hamas declared a five-month truce with Israel over on Tuesday and claimed to have fired dozens of rockets into the Jewish state on its Independence Day.... 
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Tigers bomb Jaffna military complex
COLOMBO, April 24: Tamil Tiger rebels flying light aircraft bombed Sri Lanka’s main military complex in the Jaffna peninsula on Tuesday, killing at least six soldiers and wounding 13, officials and rebels said....
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US sanctions Pakistani for arms deals with Iran WASHINGTON: A Pakistani citizen, Arif Ali Durrani, is among more than a dozen foreigners and entities the US sanctioned this week to stop transfers of advanced weaponry to and from Iran and Syria....
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Six held in British anti-terror raids
LONDON, April 24: British police arrested six men in pre-dawn anti-terror raids on Tuesday, including radical Muslim Abu Izzadeen, known for calling western leaders “terrorists” and heckling Home Secretary John Reid....
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Iran to exile violators of dress code
TEHRAN: Women in Tehran who repeatedly flout the Islamic dress code in defiance of a police crackdown might be banned from the Iranian capital for up to five years, Tehran’s prosecutor said in comments published on Tuesday....
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Bush vows to veto troop pullout bill
WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush vowed on Tuesday to veto a joint congressional move that urges him to immediately halt all combat operations in Iraq and begin withdrawing US troops as early as July....
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Erdogan names Gul as presidential candidate
ANKARA, April 24: Turkey''s Islamist-rooted Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday named Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul as the ruling party candidate for president, following harsh secularist objections to his own reported ambitions....
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Shocking sexual abuse in US
WASHINGTON: Native American and Alaskan women are suffering rates of rape and sexual violence nearly three times higher than the US national average, Amnesty says in a new study released on Tuesday....
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Six held for trade in skulls, bones
KOLKATA: Police in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal have arrested six people for illegally trading in human skulls and bones following complaints bodies were missing from graveyards, a senior officer said on Tuesday....
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Verdict on Briton’s slaying
TOKYO: A Japanese court is set to hand down a verdict on the killing of British bar hostess Lucie Blackman on Tuesday, nearly seven years after her death....
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US ignores Iraqi objections to Baghdad wall
LONDON: The new age of the wall has begun. Ramparts and stone fortifications, regarded until recently as national relics and tourist attractions, are back with a vengeance in the “global war on terror”....
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Egyptian govt plans to apply ‘terror’ law to reporters
CAIRO: Parliament head Fathi Sorour set off a furore when he said earlier this month that planned anti-terrorism legislation could be applied to reporters covering news on “terrorist” organisations....
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Fish oil may preserve brain power in elderly
NEW YORK: High blood levels of omega-3 highly unsaturated fatty acids, which are found in fish oil, may help preserve thinking ability in the elderly, according to the findings of two studies published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition....
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French change heart & mind at last minute
PARIS: The French will claim as a matter of pride and principle that they vote with their hearts in the first round of a presidential election and their minds in the second....
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Theatre puts Blair in the dock
LONDON: A London theatre has put British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the dock for waging war in Iraq, staging a mock tribunal where prosecution and defence lawyers question key witnesses....
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9-to-5 life: dealing with fear and loathing
LONDON: Hate isn’t a word that most of us feel comfortable with, particularly not when it concerns a close colleague. But despite the growing number of firms who spout platitudes about...
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Yeltsin’s turbulent career masked achievements and errors
BERLIN: One enduring image says much about Boris Yeltsin’s legacy to Russia — that picture of him on top of a tank, arms up in defiance, leading popular resistance against the putsch organised by the old Soviet military....
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