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17 Russian soldiers killed in copter crash
MOSCOW, April 27: Seventeen Russian servicemen died on Friday when their Mi-8 helicopter carrying paratroopers was shot down in Chechnya, Russian news agencies quoted military officials as saying.... 
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‘Mutual destruction’ danger in US anti-missile plan: Putin
MOSCOW, April 27: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday warned that US plans to deploy an anti-missile system in eastern Europe sharply increase the danger of mutual destruction....
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Do not ‘test my will’ on Iraq: Bush
CAMP DAVID, April 27: President George W. Bush warned Democrats on Friday not to “test my will” by passing new legislation on a US troop pullout from Iraq after he vetoes a bill passed by Congress this week....
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Cheney blamed for taking US to war on Iraq
NEW YORK, April 27: The former director of central intelligence (CIA) George J. Tenet has lashed out against US Vice President Dick Cheney and other Bush administration officials in a new...
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Hugh Grant gets libel pay-out from UK papers
LONDON, April 27: Two British newspapers gave libel damages to actor Hugh Grant on Friday after he sued over reports about his behaviour with ex-girlfriend Jemima Khan....
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Hawking tastes zero-gravity
CAPE CANAVERAL, April 27: British physicist Stephen Hawking took a flight on Thursday that gave the renowned scientist, who is confined to a wheelchair, a taste of the weightlessness of space....
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Ban appeals for urgent help to Somalia
UNITED NATIONS, April 27: Expressing grave concern over intensified violence in Somalia, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday made an impassioned appeal to the international community to step up its assistance to the war-torn East African nation....
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Sri Lanka on alert after new flying Tiger threat COLOMBO, April 27: Sri Lanka was on high alert on Friday over the threat of another Tamil Tiger air attack, the morning after a suspicious aircraft forced the closure of the island''s only international airport....
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Taliban take southern Afghan district
KABUL, April 27: Taliban conducted a raid in Afghanistan’s volatile south and took control of a district, killing five people, including the district chief and the head of the district police, the deputy governor said on Friday....
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Russian cellist Rostropovich dies
MOSCOW: Mstislav Rostropovich, the legendary Russian cellist who became a powerful emblem of resistance to the Soviet communist system, died on Friday in a Moscow hospital. He was 80....
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China names new foreign minister
BEIJING: China announced on Friday that three ministers had been replaced in a cabinet reshuffle that also saw the appointment of a new foreign minister....
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Gere apologises to Indians
NEW DELHI: Hollywood star Richard Gere, ordered arrested by an Indian court for kissing Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty, offered on Friday a “sincere apology” for any offence he caused....
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Controversy over exile issue
DHAKA: The adviser for law, justice and parliamentary affairs, Mr Mainul Hosein, has claimed that the advice for sending abroad the chiefs of two major political parties, Awami League and BNP, came from within the parties....
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Immigration to Israel falling
JERUSALEM: Immigration to Israel is gradually declining, the country''s Immigrant Absorption Minister Zeev Boim told the Jerusalem Post newspaper in an interview published on Friday....
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Putin’s threat raises Cold War spectre
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin’s move to suspend Russia from a key Soviet-era arms treaty is more than just Cold War-style rhetoric and could presage a redrawing of the European security map, analysts said on Friday....
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Wolfowitz’s role in Iraq debacle
LONDON: Among those relishing the exposure of World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz’s manoeuvres on behalf of his girlfriend, Shaha Riza, in recent weeks was almost certainly the former US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld....
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China’s new FM is friendly to Bush clan
BEIJING: China’s choice of a former ambassador with personal ties to the Bush family as its new foreign minister shows the priority Beijing places on its relationship with Washington, analysts said.Yang...
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German bid to boost EU-Russia ties fails
BERLIN: Germany’s hopes to use its EU presidency to strengthen the bloc’s ties with an increasingly wealthy and confident Russia appear headed for failure as Russia takes an increasingly confrontational stance towards the West....
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Pressure on Maliki may backfire
BAGHDAD: US pressure on Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki to speed up reconciliation among warring sects could backfire as Iraqi leaders don’t want to be seen as taking orders from an increasingly impatient Washington....
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Cambodia’s ‘cyclo’ drivers pedalling towards extinction
PHNOM PENH: Phnom Penh’s crowded streets have become the loneliest of places for the city’s cyclo drivers as peddle-power is making way for a faster pace of life in the Cambodian capital....
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Bush-Democrat showdown looms after Senate vote
WASHINGTON: With Thursday’s vote by the US Senate to begin withdrawing US troops from Iraq in October, the stage has been set for a prolonged confrontation between the Democratic-led Congress and President George W....
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