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Protesters, police clash at anti-Bush march in Rome
ROME, June 9: An otherwise peaceful protest march by tens of thousands against the visit of US President George W. Bush to Rome turned violent on Saturday as police clashed with stick-wielding demonstrators....
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Singh rebuffs Sharif on Kashmir talks with Musharraf
NEW DELHI, June 9: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has rebuffed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif''s plea that New Delhi should not do a deal on Kashmir with President Gen Pervez...
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Israeli tanks re-enter southern Gaza
GAZA CITY, June 9: Israeli tanks and troops pushed into the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday and traded gunfire with members of the armed wing of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, the army and Hamas said....
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Afghan police general shot dead
KANDAHAR, June 9: The second most senior policeman in Afghanistan''s Kandahar province was shot dead late on Saturday, police said, in the latest in a series of assassinations in the city....
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Heatwave claims 18 lives in India
NEW DELHI, June 9: Eighteen people died in northern India as temperatures soared on Saturday, a news report said....
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S. Arabia begins issuing group tourist visas
RIYADH, June 9: Saudi Arabia has started issuing group visit visas to intending foreigners. The Supreme Commission for Tourism (SCT) is now issuing group visit visas, through tour operators, to foreigners, press reports said on Saturday quoting senior officials....
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Egypt’s bridge plan abandoned on pressure from US, Israel
RIYADH, June 9: President Hosni Mubarak rejected the plan to construct a bridge linking Egypt and Saudi Arabia under pressure from the United States and Israel....
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Vague promises put G8 integrity at risk
HEILIGENDAMM (Germany): This year’s summit of the G8 heads of government will likely be remembered as a “how not to” organise such an event, for the contrast between the expectations it...
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Sex offenders getting younger, more violent
STOCKTON (California): US courts have seen the number of sex offence cases involving juvenile offenders rise dramatically in recent years, an Associated Press review of national statistics found, and treatment professionals...
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Nostalgia for Nixon?
WASHINGTON: Anger and frustration with the president have produced an unusual turn of late. Numerous people have been moved to remark, “I’m beginning to miss Nixon,” or, “I wish we could...
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Immigration bill: odds against Bush are daunting
WASHINGTON: Derailment of US President George Bush’s immigration overhaul plan could be the death knell for his second-term domestic legacy....
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UK-US collusion in the pillaging of Iraq’s heritage
LONDON: Fly into the American airbase of Tallil outside Nasiriya in central Iraq and the flight path is over the great ziggurat of Ur, reputedly the earliest city on earth....
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