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Israel stresses Arab role in ME peace
CAIRO, May 10: Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni stressed on Thursday the Arab world''s “important role” in helping achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians, after talks in Cairo with her Egyptian and Jordanian counterparts.... 
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Iraqi leaders must shoulder responsibilities: Cheney
CAMP SPEICHER (Iraq), May 10: US Vice-President Dick Cheney wrapped up a two-day visit to Iraq on Thursday warning that the country''s own leaders were the only ones able to bring their conflict to an end....
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US-Russia ties in difficult period: Rice
WASHINGTON, May 10: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking before a visit to Moscow, said on Thursday she was troubled by the concentration of power in the Kremlin and said US-Russia relations were in a “difficult period.”...
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10 Colombian soldiers killed in bomb attack
BOGOTA, May 10: Ten Colombian soldiers died on Thursday when leftist rebels detonated a bomb on a rural road in the second major guerilla attack in two days, military officials said....
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Israel plans 20,000 new homes in settlements
JERUSALEM, May 10: Israel plans to build 20,000 new homes for Jews in a settlement in Arab East Jerusalem, angering Palestinians who want the land for a future state....
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Blair''s deputy resigns
LONDON, May 10: Britain''s deputy prime minister John Prescott on Thursday announced his intention to resign, after Prime Minister Tony Blair confirmed he was stepping down....
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US expresses concern over bloodshed in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, May 10: The United States on Thursday accused Sri Lanka of going back on promises to protect human rights and said the situation in the embattled island had “deteriorated” in the past year....
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Myanmar urged to release Suu Kyi
GENEVA, May 10: Fourteen UN human rights experts on Thursday called on Myanmar''s military regime to unconditionally release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi when her detention comes up for review on May 27....
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Parliament backs direct presidential poll in Turkey
ANKARA, May 10: Turkey''s parliament approved on Thursday a major constitutional amendment to allow the president to be elected directly by voters, a move that could fan fresh tensions between the Islamist-rooted government and secularists....
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Afghan minister sacked
KABUL, May 10: Afghanistan’s parliament voted on Thursday to sack the minister for refugees amid an uproar over Iran’s forced return of thousands of illegal refugees, while the fate of the foreign minister is in the balance....
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Muslims in NY, New Jersey fear backlash
NEW YORK, May 10: Muslim communities in New Jersey and neighbouring New York fear a backlash in the wake of the discovery of a plot by a Muslim group to kill American soldiers in Fort Dix, New Jersey....
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Asian women struggle at workplace: UN
BANGKOK, May 10: Women in parts of Asia still struggle to find decent jobs despite rapid economic growth, and when they do, they face discrimination and inferior pay, the UN labour rights watchdog said on Thursday....
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Ad drive launched against war supporters
NEW YORK, May 10: In an act of defiance perhaps not seen since President Truman fired Gen Douglas MacArthur, the anti-war veterans group VoteVets.org, which has been influential with Capitol Hill...
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Two shot dead in Thailand
NARATHIWAT (Thailand), May 10: Two Muslim men were shot dead overnight in drive-by shootings in Thailand''s restive south, police here said on Thursday. In a separate incident, two soldiers were wounded...
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Things went well with Blair except for Iraq
LONDON: Tony Blair’s decade in power will be remembered for his media-savvy transformation of British politics, but above all for the Iraq war. Blair, a guitarist who famously fronted a student...
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Cairo conference on Iraq achieved few tangible results
CAIRO: Two days of talks on Iraq last week produced an international agreement promising support for the Iraqi government in exchange for political and economic reforms to be implemented by Baghdad....
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Giving an inch, taking a mile
WASHINGTON: Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon was in Washington last week to save the troubled US-India nuclear deal by which the US would end longstanding restrictions on nuclear cooperation with India....
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The invisible woman at the helm of Wolfowitz scandal - I
WASHINGTON: She is the invisible woman at the centre of the storm swirling around embattled World Bank President Paul D. Wolfowitz. Serious, discreet and strong-willed, Shaha Ali Riza has been variously...
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Protests for hire in former Soviet world
KIEV: It looked like the soul of democracy, a repeat of the 2004 Orange Revolution: high-spirited, flag-waving demonstrators on Kiev’s central square decrying an attack on the constitution....
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Elephants evicted
NEW DELHI, May 10: Dozens of elephants in India''s capital need a new home after being evicted from a riverside locale to make way for construction linked to the 2010 Commonwealth Games, officials said Thursday....
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