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Iraqi shrine bombed again: Curfew imposed in Samara
SAMARRA (Iraq), June 13: Suspected Al Qaeda militants blew up the two minarets of a revered shrine in the Iraqi town of Samarra on Wednesday, 15 months after a first bombing sparked brutal sectarian killings....
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MP among eight killed in Beirut blast
BEIRUT, June 13: Lebanese anti-Syrian parliamentarian Walid Eido was killed on Wednesday, with at least seven other people, when a bomb ripped through his car in western Beirut, security sources said....
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Hamas gains ground on Fatah in Gaza battles
GAZA, June 13: Hamas fighters gained ground on Wednesday against forces loyal to Western-backed Mahmoud Abbas in battles for control of the Gaza Strip, a supremacy struggle the Palestinian President termed “madness”....
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Iran source of weapons to Taliban: Gates
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE (Germany), June 13: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday said “substantial” quantities of Iranian weapons are flowing into Afghanistan and it is difficult to believe the Iranian government is not aware of it....
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US, Israel run UN’s ME policy: ex-envoy
UNITED NATIONS, June 13: A former UN Middle East envoy quit his job last month making bitter allegations that U.N. policy in the region had failed because it was subservient to US and Israeli interests, according to a leaked document....
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US prepared for ‘worst’ with China: official
WASHINGTON, June 13: China''s secretive transformation of its military power leaves the United States preparing for the worst eventualities, including over Taiwan, a Pentagon official said on Wednesday.About...
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Peres elected Israel president
JERUSALEM, June 13: Veteran statesman Shimon Peres was elected president of Israel on Wednesday, finally winning his first vote for top office and crowning a record-breaking career spanning more than half a century....
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Lavish salaries widening rich-poor gap
NEW DELHI: While India has always been seen as a land of great socio-economic disparities, of slums co-existing with marble palaces, there is new concern at the rapid pace at which the rich-poor gap is widening....
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Mumbai mafia cashing in on real estate, Bollywood
MUMBAI: Hitmen shooting police informers, mafia bosses collecting protection money from Bollywood actors and producers — it could be a movie script. But the rise in criminal activity in India’s financial...
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Poverty masks entrepreneurial spirit
MUMBAI: The first sight for anyone flying into India’s richest city is a sea of corrugated and tarpaulin-covered roofs beside a narrow, filth-choked river. It is an aerial view of Dharavi,...
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Monsoon sweeps into India
DHAKA: Severe monsoon weather which devastated Bangladesh extended its grip over South Asia on Wednesday, killing a dozen people and disrupting transport in eastern India, officials said....
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Eco-friendly pyre to reduce carbon combustion after cremation
NEW DELHI: The average Indian may go through an entire life without contributing a huge amount to the world’s production of greenhouse gases, but in death his carbon footprint jumps.Alarmed...
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Sri Lanka risks isolation over HR: body
COLOMBO: Amidst calls by the the United National Party (UNP) for the Sri Lankan government to resign over allegations of human rights violations, an international panel of experts in a report...
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Vatican suspends backing for Amnesty
VATICAN CITY: The Roman Catholic Church said on Wednesday it was suspending financial aid to the human rights group Amnesty International, accusing it of having decided to support abortion....
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British judge cleared of exposing himself
LONDON: A prominent English judge was cleared on Wednesday of charges he exposed himself to a woman on two separate occasions on trains in London last year....
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Gandhi’s grandson found dead
NEW DELHI: One of the grandsons of India''s apostle of peace and freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi was found dead in New Delhi on Wednesday, relatives and police said....
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Afghan shooting at girls school condemned
UNITEd NATIONS: The United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) on Wednesday condemned a shooting outside a girls’ school in Afghanistan’s Logar province which left two students dead and four people injured, including a teacher....
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Ban condemns attack on shrine
UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and his envoy to Iraq on Wednesday strongly condemned the attack against holy shrines in Samarra, where a blast last February triggered a wave of deadly sectarian violence across the country....
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Tutu’s Nobel prize stolen
JOHANNESBURG: Five men were charged with stealing the Nobel peace prize of South Africa''s leading anti-apartheid hero Desmond Tutu during a burglary at his home in Soweto, police said....
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Chirac accused of ‘treason’
PARIS: Former French president Jacques Chirac was accused of “treason” on Wednesday for allegedly helping the government of Djibouti cover up the truth behind the 1995 death of a French judge....
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