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Car bomb kills 55 in Iraq
KARBALA, April 28: A suicide car bomber detonated his payload on a crowded street near a revered shrine in the Iraqi city of Karbala on Saturday, killing at least 55 people and wounding nearly 160 others.... 
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Turkey on brink of political crisis
ANKARA, April 28: Turkey faced a political crisis on Saturday as the Islamist-rooted government clashed with the army over the latter''s threat of action to defend the country''s secular regime....
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Missiles can ‘damage’ Iran’s N-plan: Olmert
BERLIN, April 28: A rain of missiles could degrade Iran''s nuclear programme and set it back years, Israel''s prime minister told a German weekly, sparking a warning from Tehran that such a strike would be a dangerous “error”....
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India-US talks on N-deal fruitless
NEW DELHI, April 28: India and the United States will try to iron out differences next week over a crucial civilian nuclear deal amid impatience by Washington over the slow pace of talks, officials said on Saturday....
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Ban on Liberia’s diamond export lifted
NEW YORK: The UN Security Council on Friday voted to lift its six-year-old ban on the export of diamonds from Liberia that was introduced to stop proceeds from the sale of these so-called “blood diamonds” from fuelling wars across West Africa....
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Estonia accuses Russia of stoking tensions
TALLINN: Estonia on Saturday accused Russia of stoking already high tensions in the Baltic state by issuing a “groundless” statement over the death of a Russian citizen during rioting in Tallinn....
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Colombo sealed off amid fears of Tiger attack
COLOMBO, April 28: Police and security forces sealed off Sri Lanka''s capital on Saturday, searching every vehicle entering and leaving the city amid fears of a Tamil Tiger attack, officials said....
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Political violence targeting education system: Unesco
UNITED NATIONS: Deliberate political or military violence targeting education systems, from the assassination or abduction of teachers and students to the bombings and burnings of schools and universities...
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N. Korea angling for a better deal
WASHINGTON: The Bush administration has caved to escalating North Korean demands that threatened a breakthrough nuclear disarmament accord, but there are signs that North Korea is still angling for a better deal....
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Counterinsurgency fight: think globally, lose locally
WASHINGTON: For nearly 50 years, many Americans saw the communist states as a vast monolith, able to act as one in the service of a single unified doctrine....
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Should Prince Harry be sent to Iraq?
LONDON: On the phone-in programmes on Friday morning, the Go Harry vote was running far ahead of the No Harry faction, but Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the British Army,...
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Lebanese not being taught about civil war
BEIRUT: Seventeen years after the end of Lebanon’s civil war, history textbooks in schools still do not tackle the controversial strife which continues to blight political life in a country where the past is ever-present....
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A divided Iraq remembers Saddam
AWJA, (Iraq): In another reminder of the gulf that divides their warring communities, Iraqis remembered Saddam Hussein’s era on Saturday at two starkly different ceremonies....
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