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Two Palestinians killed in fresh Israeli air raid
GAZA CITY, May 30: Two Palestinian militants were killed in an Israeli air strike on Wednesday after Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas announced plans to meet Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for the first time in almost two months.... 
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Iran rules out key demand before atomic meeting
TEHRAN, May 30: Iran will not suspend uranium enrichment, the key UN demand in a nuclear row with Tehran, Iran''s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said the day before talks with EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana....
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7 foreigners sentenced to death in Indonesia
JAKARTA, May 30: Five Chinese nationals, a Dutchman and a Frenchman who appealed against the length of their convictions on drug charges were sentenced to death by Indonesia’s Supreme Court on Wednesday....
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Malaysian woman loses appeal on conversion
PUTRAJAYA, May 30: Malaysia’s top secular court on Wednesday rejected a woman’s bid to be legally recognised as Christian after converting from Islam, saying the matter must be decided by a religious court....
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Factional war looms over Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, May 30: A new factional war is threatening to erupt in the volatile eastern Batticaloa district as the leaders of three LTTE groups jostle for supremacy....
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Colombo seeks Delhi’s help against Tigers
COLOMBO, May 30: With both the Tamil Tigers and the troops preparing for full-scale fighting in the north of the country, Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse has sought assistance from India to tackle the escalating LTTE threat, sources say....
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AL leader, ex-BD minister remanded in police custody
DHAKA, May 30: A Bangladesh court remanded a senior politician, a former junior minister and a top businessman in police custody for interrogation, officials said on Wednesday, the latest in a...
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Robber targeting taxi drivers in New York
NEW YORK, May 30: A serial robber is terrorising New York City taxi drivers, having held up eight of them at gunpoint in less than two weeks, police say....
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Sikh priests reject apology
AMRITSAR, May 30: Sikh priests have rejected an apology from a religious sect for adverts showing its leader dressed as a revered guru which triggered violence in Punjab, a senior cleric said on Wednesday....
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83-year-old convicted over Mumbai blasts
MUMBAI, May 30: A court on Wednesday sentenced to life in jail an 83-year-old man as one of the main conspirators in bombings which killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993....
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TRT dissolved, former Thai PM banned from politics
BANGKOK, May 30: Thailand''s Thai Rak Thai party was dissolved on Wednesday and its leaders, including ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, banned from politics after a top court found them guilty of electoral fraud....
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Russia, US clash on Kosovo, missile shield
POTSDAM (Germany), May 30: Russia and the United States clashed over Kosovo and US missile shield plans on Wednesday, souring a meeting aimed at preparing the ground for next week''s Group of Eight summit on the Baltic coast....
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Judge accuses Turkish PM of intimidation
ANKARA, May 30: The head of Turkey''s top court accused Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday of using threats against her court that undermined the supremacy of the law and said she would file a complaint against him....
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Chemical plant suspended after uproar
BEIJING, May 30: Chinese citizens alarmed about pollution won a rare victory on Wednesday when a city froze a chemical project after angry residents joined hands through a flood of mobile phone text messages....
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Russian missile test new warning to US: experts
BRUSSELS, May 30: Russia''s ballistic missile test is a new warning to the United States over its defence shield and reflects Moscow''s increasingly aggressive posture on the world stage, experts said on Wednesday....
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Fighting flares at Lebanon camp
NAHR AL-BARED (Lebanon), May 30: Fighting between the Lebanese army and Islamist militants flared again as their deadly standoff entered its 10th day on Wednesday and relief workers tried to get aid to stranded civilians....
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Al Qaeda warns US of attacks
DUBAI, May 30: An American member of Al Qaeda warned in an Internet video that President George W. Bush should withdraw all his troops from Muslim land or face attacks worse than Sept 11....
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US claim about casualties disputed
JALALABAD, May 30: The US military said coalition and Afghan troops killed six Taliban and arrested four in Nangarhar on Wednesday, though a provincial official and residents said the casualties were villagers....
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Woman dies after power cut off
WELLINGTON, May 30: A New Zealand woman on an oxygen machine died after her electricity was cut off for being late paying the bill, local media said on Wednesday....
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Islamic bank launches $10 bn poverty fund
DAKAR, March 30: The Islamic Development Bank launched a $10 billion fund on Wednesday to combat poverty in developing Muslim nations in Africa and other parts of the world....
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Promoting peace through paintings
NEW DELHI: “War begins in the minds of men,” says India’s leading art connoisseur and promoter of Indian contemporary art, Sushil Kumar Modi, citing from the charter of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco)....
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Kashmiris look to save Dal Lake
SRINAGAR: For Dal Lake, an ebb in fighting in occupied Kashmir and tentative peace moves between India and Pakistan has come none to soon. Raw sewage, land encroachment and years of...
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Brain drain gives way to brain gain
CHENNAI: Brinda Somaya, a leading Mumbai architect, and her husband, a heart specialist, are both very excited that in a month or so their daughter, a lawyer now studying architecture in...
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India plans to demolish Asia’s biggest slum
MUMBAI: Authorities in India’s financial capital invited bids from around the world on Wednesday to tear down Asia’s biggest slum and replace it with gleaming new apartments for its hundreds of thousands of poor residents....
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Miners pay heavy price for India’s famed marble
MAKRANA (India): Mughal emperor Shah Jahan famously used it to entomb his beloved wife Mumtaz in Taj Mahal, bathrooms around the world are lined with it and business executives brush up against it in hotel lobbies: Makrana’s much-admired marble is everywhere....
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New limbless lizard found in India
NEW DELHI: An Indian zoologist says he found a new species of limbless lizard during a recent field study in a forested area in the country’s east....
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Bhutanese DPs hold demo on India-Nepal border
KATHMANDU: About 10,000 Bhutanese refugees demonstrated on Wednesday on the India-Nepal border, where Indian troops had opened fire a day earlier, killing one refugee, officials said....
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