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Russia freezes rms treaty
OSLO, April 26: A dispute over US plans to station anti-missile bases in eastern Europe escalated Thursday as Russia froze a key defence treaty in a move that raised “grave concern” among Nato allies.... 
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US official accused of aiding enemy in Iraq
BAGHDAD, April 26: The US military charged a senior official on Thursday with aiding the enemy and fraternising with the daughter of an inmate in a US-run prison camp, in the latest scandal to hit the military in Iraq....
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Iran hopeful of talks with EU
ANKARA, April 26: Iran’s nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said on Thursday Iran and the EU were nearing “a united view” in some areas of their talks and new ideas were raised to break an international impasse over Tehran’s atomic programme....
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Sri Lanka shuts airport, fearing rebel attack
COLOMBO, April 26: Sri Lankan troops fired anti-aircraft weapons, evacuated passengers and briefly shut the international airport here on Thursday night fearing a Tamil Tiger air raid, officials said....
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Arrest of Shilpa, Gere ordered
JAIPUR, April 26: An Indian court ordered the arrest of Hollywood star Richard Gere on Thursday for kissing Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty at an AIDS campaign event this month saying it was an obscene act committed in public....
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Ex-Portugese president gets UN assignment
NEW YORK, April 26: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday appointed former Portuguese president Jorge Sampaio as the first United Nations High Representative for the “Alliance of Civilisations”, an initiative...
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Real-life version of Spiderman possible
ROME, April 26: A new Spider-Man film swings into cinemas soon, but an Italian researcher said on Thursday he was working on a project that could lead to real-life versions of the comic book character....
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Occupied peace linked to calm in areas
UNITED NATIONS, April 26: Deteriorating security situation in the Israeli-occupied territories is undermining diplomatic efforts to jumpstart the Middle-East peace process, a top UN official told a UN Security Council meeting on Wednesday....
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Aishwarya to live with in-laws
MUMBAI: Bollywood bride Aishwarya Rai will live with her in-laws and adopt her husband’s family name, her movie icon father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan said in an interview published on Thursday....
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Hugh Grant arrested
LONDON: Hugh Grant has been arrested and questioned by police after a photographer accused the British actor of attacking him with a tub of baked beans....
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Tension eases in BD
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s feuding political parties proclaimed a “people’s victory” on Thursday after the army-backed interim government lifted a ban on former prime minister Sheikh Hasina returning home....
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World parliament idea looks plausible
LONDON: It was first proposed, as far as I can discover, in 1842, by Alfred Tennyson. Since then the idea has broken the surface and sunk again at least a dozen times....
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One choice in Iraq: stand and fight
WASHINGTON: Last week a series of coordinated suicide bombings killed more than 170 people. The victims were not soldiers or government officials but civilians — innocent men, women and children indiscriminately murdered on their way home from work and school....
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Disharmony marks EU’s relations with Russia
BRUSSELS: European Union leaders reacted to the news of Boris Yeltsin’s death by heaping lavish praise on the Russian president for his decisive role in copper-fastening a rapprochement with the West during the 1990s....
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Saudi tribe holds camel beauty contest
GUWEI’IYYA (Saudi Arabia): The legs are long, the eyes are big, the bodies curvaceous. Contestants in this Saudi-style beauty pageant have all the features you might expect anywhere else in the...
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UN body under fire over Myanmar project
BANGKOK: A regional UN body that claims to care about Asia’s economically weak and marginalised is being taken to task for helping pave the way to achieve the opposite — strengthening...
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