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Putin proposes joint Russia-US base
HEILIGENDAMM (Germany), June 7: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called for a joint Russian-US base to detect missile attacks in a startling proposal to overcome a crisis between the two countries....
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19 killed in attacks on Iraqi security forces
BAGHDAD, June 7: At least 19 people were killed in bomb attacks on Iraqi security forces on Thursday, nine of them in the suicide truck bombing of a police station near the Syrian border in the northwest of the country....
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N. Korea test-fires short-range missiles
SEOUL, June 7: North Korea on Thursday test-fired two short-range missiles, less than two weeks after its previous launch, the South Korean military said. The communist state fired two missiles into...
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Militants threaten to widen Lebanon attacks
NAHR AL-BARED (Lebanon), June 7: Islamist militants locked in a standoff with the Lebanese army threatened on Thursday to widen attacks as tanks and helicopter gunships pounded their strongholds inside an impoverished refugee camp....
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39 still in secret prisons, say HR groups
LONDON, June 7: Six human rights groups on Thursday published a list of 39 people believed to be held in secret prisons run by the CIA, but whose whereabouts are unknown, as the United States claims the prisons are empty....
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Brain swelling halts conjoined twin surgery
WASHINGTON, June 7: US surgeons were forced to halt a delicate and high-risk procedure to separate twin girls joined at the head because of unexpected brain swelling, doctors said on Thursday....
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Fatah activist killed in Gaza clashes
GAZA CITY, June 7: A Palestinian security officer was killed on Thursday in the first deadly clashes between rival Fatah and Hamas gunmen to scar the Gaza Strip since a truce began nearly three weeks ago....
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BD asked to clarify curbs on rights expert
GENEVA, June 7: The United Nations human rights office on Thursday said it was seeking clarification from Bangladesh over why one of the UN''s rights expert had been barred from leaving the country....
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Candidates betray superficial attitude: US elections
GOFFSTOWN (USA): The 18 presidential candidates – eight Democrats and 10 Republicans – who came to Saint Anselm College here for a pair of debates this week displayed a remarkable ability...
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India not ready to cut emissions of greenhouse gases
NEW DELHI: India is likely to cut a sorry figure on climate change issues during and after the G8 summit at Heiligendamm in Germany. As the world’s fifth largest emitter...
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China poised for more victories over Taiwan
BEIJING: China’s growing global clout will inevitably secure the Asian giant more diplomatic victories over Taiwan, analysts said on Thursday, after Costa Rica ditched Taipei in favour of Beijing....
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Iceman ‘Otzi’ bled to death, say scientists
LONDON: Archaeologists think they have solved the longstanding mystery of how Otzi, the world’s most famous iceman, met his end: an arrow wound in his shoulder caused him to bleed to death.Otzi,...
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Self-recording expresses fear of death?
LONDON: The unexamined life, said Socrates, is not worth living. Today, we seem to be operating under a new and very different dictum: the unrecorded life is not worth living....
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No more ''My Lord'' in south India courts
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A southern Indian state will allow lawyers to drop “My Lord” when speaking to judges in a bid to end colonial-era language, a lawyers group in the state said on Thursday....
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Hilton freed after serving a few days in jail
LOS ANGELES: Paris Hilton was released from a Los Angeles County jail on Thursday after only serving a few days of her more than three-week sentence for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case, authorities said....
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Bhutan a happy place, study finds
THIMPHU: An impressive 68 per cent of people polled in the isolated Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan are happy, a survey showed on Thursday, and said a focus on family and health, not work, made them so.The...
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