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Shoot-on-sight orders in Rajasthan: Death toll climbs in ethnic clashes
JODHPUR, June 1: Police in northern India issued shoot-on-sight orders on Friday as eight more people were killed in ethnic clashes that have left 28 dead so far.... 
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Court says Amitabh ‘no farmer’
LUCKNOW, June 1: Indian film legend Amitabh Bachchan was dealt a setback on Friday when a court ruled he did not qualify as a farmer -- a status that entitled him to buy a 20-acre farm....
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Fresh fighting erupts at Lebanon refugee camp NAHR AL-BARED (Lebanon), June 1: Fighting erupted anew on Friday between troops besieging a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon and Islamist militants holed up inside, where the humanitarian situation was described as desperate....
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Heavy Indian air hostesses lose case
NEW DELHI, June 1: Indian Airlines said on Friday justice had been done after a court ruled that the state-run domestic carrier had done no wrong by grounding overweight air hostesses last year....
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Israeli secret services involved in ’76 hijack: papers
LONDON, June 1: Israel’s secret service may have been involved in the hijack of an Air France plane in 1976 by pro-Palestinian hijackers, according to newly declassified British government documents released Friday....
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Rice sceptic about EU-Iran talks
MADRID, June 1: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed scepticism on Friday that talks between Iran and the European Union would produce any commitment from Tehran on suspending uranium enrichment....
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70 human traffickers held
BELGRADE, June 1: Balkan police broke a major human trafficking ring smuggling people from the Balkans and the East into European Union countries, officials said on Friday....
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Bush aide resigns
WASHINGTON, June 1: Dan Bartlett, a key member of President George W. Bush''s inner circle and an aide for him going back more than 13 years, announced on Friday he is resigning as White House consular effective July 4....
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Deniable, disposable casualties
LOS ANGELES: Something was missing from my local Memorial Day parade. There were soldiers, sailors, World War II veterans, firefighters, Girl Scouts, soccer players, marching bands, flag-draped floats and even a festive contingent from the Board of Education....
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Get in line, Einstein
WASHINGTON: Beware legislative behemoths. Beware “comprehensive immigration reform”. Any bill that is 380 pages long is bound to have nooks and crannies reflecting private deals, quiet paybacks and ad hoc arrangements that you often don’t learn about until it’s too late....
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‘Dickens World’ houses barmaids, urchins
CHATHAM (England): Britain’s newest visitor attraction, a theme park dedicated to the novelist Charles Dickens, offers a taste of the grim world of Victorian London stalked by his characters including Oliver Twist, Ebenezer Scrooge and David Copperfield....
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Tree newspaper blossoms in Darfur
AL-FASHER (Sudan): Awatef Ahmed Isaac is something of a celebrity in this dusty Darfur town where the handwritten dispatches she pins to the same tree each week are the main source of independent news.The...
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Sierra Leone making little progress due to corruption
FREETOWN: Sierra Leone is making little progress in tackling corruption and is squandering foreign aid, leaving its most vulnerable citizens as destitute as they were before its civil war ended five years ago, experts say....
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Paying for a nice nose
TEHRAN: Iranians flouting Islamic street dress codes may risk being hauled in by police for questioning by “psychologists”, but the frequent sight of bandaged faces from cosmetic surgery raises not so much as an official eyebrow....
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