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4m Iraqis displaced, says UNHCR
UNITED NATIONS, June 5: Over four million Iraqis have fled their homes, seeking refuge either inside the country or beyond its borders as the situation deteriorates, the United Nations refugee agency... 
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Bush accuses Putin of derailing democracy
HEILIGENDAMM (Germany), June 5: US President George Bush on Tuesday criticised Russia on democracy, but sought to calm President Vladimir Putin’s anger over US missile shield plans on the eve of a G8 summit in Germany....
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UAE PM seeks Bush help over slavery lawsuit
MIAMI, June 5: The Ruler of Dubai has sought President George W. Bush''s help in getting US courts to dismiss a child-slavery lawsuit against him, according to court papers filed recently....
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Singh, Bush to meet on G8 sidelines
NEW DELHI, June 5: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will meet US President George W. Bush during a four-day visit to Germany for the G-8 meeting starting this week....
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Ex-White House aide gets 30 months in prison
WASHINGTON, June 5: Former White House aide Lewis “Scooter” Libby was sentenced on Tuesday to 30 months in prison for perjury and obstruction, in a case which also put a glaring...
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Amitabh insists he’s a farmer
LUCKNOW, June 5: Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan appealed to a court on Tuesday to accept him as a farmer and allow him to keep a 20-acre property....
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Maoist attack leaves millions without power in India
RAIPUR (India), June 5: An estimated 2.5 million people in central India were left without electricity on Tuesday following a Maoist guerrilla attack on power lines, police said....
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Tehran has expelled 100,000 Afghans: UN
KABUL, June 5: Iran has expelled about 100,000 Afghans in nearly six weeks in a drive to deport those who are in the country illegally, the UN refugee agency in Afghanistan said on Tuesday....
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Israeli protesters demand end to 40-year occupation
TEL AVIV, June 5: “Forty years is enough,” Israeli peace activists urged on Tuesday as they staged rallies demanding an end to Israel''s occupation of Palestinian land since the 1967 six-day war....
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Immigration: Bush’s domestic Iraq
LOS ANGELES: Mainstream editorialists like to praise President Bush’s immigration initiative as an expression of his pragmatic, bipartisan, “compassionate conservative” side, in presumed contrast to the inflexible, ideological approach that produced the invasion of Iraq....
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Hong Kong in love with yoga
HONG KONG: A 5,000-year-old tradition rooted in meditation might not seem the obvious leisure activity for Hong Kong’s high-octane big-spending population, but in the past five years yoga has taken the city by storm....
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US wants Italy not to invest in Iran
ROME: The chief executive of Italy’s largest oil and gas company may be feeling US pressure on Iran, but you wouldn’t know it from talking to him....
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Democrats sidestep mundane issues
GOFFSTOWN (USA): Two questions from Sunday’s Democratic debate: Does Joe Biden have to set himself on fire to get serious attention? And whatever happened to the lunch-bucket issues that once made...
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Bush desperate to regain leadership at G8 summit
WASHINGTON: An ever-deteriorating situation in Iraq, a hostile Democratic Congress and a changing of the guard in some key allies may all combine to bring about a more cooperative, and perhaps more subdued, President George W....
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