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Tehran urged to stop uranium enrichment
VIENNA, May 11: A conference on fixing the 189-nation nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) urged Iran to comply with UN calls to stop enriching uranium, in a summary of the two-week meeting ending on Friday.... 
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Iran will not get N-arms: Cheney
ABOARD THE USS JOHN C STENNIS, May 11: US Vice-President Dick Cheney warned on Friday from the hangar deck of a US aircraft carrier in the Gulf that the United States will not let Iran get nuclear weapons....
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US sees continuity in British policies: Blair to visit Washington
WASHINGTON, May 11: The White House announced on Friday that the outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair would visit Washington next week and also predicted a “continuity” in Britain’s policies towards the United States despite the change in London....
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BD rights activist arrested
DHAKA, May 11: Security forces in Bangladesh have arrested a journalist and human rights worker who has been critical of the emergency-ruled country''s military-backed government, his wife said on Friday....
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IAEA denies Iran blocked N-site visit
VIENNA, May 11: The UN''s nuclear watchdog denied on Friday a report that Iran had blocked its inspectors from visiting a nuclear facility where it is enriching uranium....
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Sri Lanka needs time to down flying Tigers
COLOMBO, May 11: Sri Lanka needs time to neutralise the air strike capability of Tiger rebels, a state-run daily said Friday as the international airport shut down at night fearing guerrilla air raids....
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Experts to assess damage caused by Israel’s wall
UNITED NATIONS, May 11: Three international experts will begin work of establishing a register of damage caused by Israel’s construction of a wall in the occupied Palestinian territory, a UN spokesperson said on Thursday....
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16 killed in Afghan violence
KANDAHAR, May 11: Four policemen and a dozen Taliban were killed in fresh violence in southern Afghanistan, officials said on Friday....
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Pope gives Brazil its first saint
SAO PAOLO: Pope Benedict XVI on Friday gave Brazil its first saint, canonizing Friar Antonio de Sant''Ana Galvao, a Franciscan monk still credited with miracle cures nearly 200 years after his death....
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Independence for Kosovo
ZAGREB: The mostly ethnic Albanian province of Kosovo could be granted independence from Serbia by the end of the month, US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns said here Friday....
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Man kills twin daughters
AHMEDABAD: Indian police in the western state of Gujarat have arrested a man accused of killing his six-day-old twin daughters by burying them alive, a police officer said on Friday....
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French hostage released
KABUL: Taliban militants released on Friday a French aid worker kidnapped more than five weeks ago and said they would decide later on the fate of his three Afghan co-workers....
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International marriages and divorces surge in S. Korea
OSAN (South Korea): Despite the unromantic occasion, Ngo Ngoc Quy Hong says it was love at first sight when she and other Vietnamese women held a group meeting with prospective husbands from South Korea 17 months ago....
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The terrorist US tolerates despite war on terror
LOS ANGELES: Like pirates, terrorists are supposedly hostis humani generis — the “enemy of all mankind”. So why is the Bush administration letting one of the world’s most notorious terrorists stroll...
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New fabric will kill germs
LONDON: Ever felt your clothes could be doing more for you? Help may be at hand from a collaboration between American scientists and designers, whose range of futuristic clothes use nanotechnology...
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Brown may miss out on fruits of own toil
LONDON: Britain’s leader-in-waiting Gordon Brown may assume power too late to enjoy the fruits of his labours as one of the country’s most successful finance ministers...
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The invisible woman at the helm of Wolfowitz scandal — II
WASHINGTON: Wolfowitz was on the endowment’s board – which is how Riza first met him, according to Turkish journalist Cengiz Candar, a friend of the couple....
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