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Shrine in Basra bombed: Curfew imposed
BASRA, June 15: Assailants pretending to be a film crew blew up and destroyed a Sunni shrine near the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Friday as militants carried out more revenge attacks for the bombing of a Shiite shrine.... 
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Arab states hold Gaza crisis talks
CAIRO, June 15: Arab foreign ministers began crisis talks on the deadly dispute dividing the Palestinian territories on Friday amid dire warnings about the consequences of Hamas''s seizure of the Gaza Strip....
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9 Afghans, 2 foreign soldiers killed
KANDAHAR, June 15: Two suicide attackers blew themselves up near Nato convoys in southern Afghanistan Friday, killing five Afghan children, four young men and a Dutch soldier, officials said....
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Six injured in Turkey blast
DIYARBAKIR, June 15: (Turkey): A bomb exploded on Friday in the centre of Diyarbakir, the main city in mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey, wounding at least seven people, authorities said....
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5 US soldiers die in Iraq
BAGHDAD, June 15: Five more US soldiers have died in Iraq, four of them killed by insurgents, the US military announced on Friday, taking its losses to 36 for this month alone....
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Citizenship delays top issue for US Muslims
WASHINGTON, June 15: Muslims who qualify to become US citizens often have to wait for years to get the citizenship as government agencies subject their applications to an indefinite series of security checks, says a report released on Thursday....
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Hasina forced to postpone US visit
DHAKA, June 15: The Awami League president, Sheikh Hasina, on Friday said that ''false cases'' were being filed against her as part of a conspiracy to keep her out of the elections....
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New EU law to curb money laundering
LONDON: New European Union law to help combat money laundering which came into force on Friday (June 15) requires people who are either entering the UK from a non-EU country, or...
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Bush wants immigration bill this year
WASHINGTON, June 15: US President George W. Bush on Friday urged Congress to pass a bill this year granting a path to citizenship for 12 million illegal immigrants, after Senate deal-makers gave the measure a second life....
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Russia opens espionage investigation
MOSCOW: Russia''s internal security service, the FSB, opened an espionage investigation on Friday after the man wanted by Britain for the murder of ex-agent Alexander Litvinenko pointed the finger at Britain''s MI6 intelligence agency....
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China slave scandal deepens
BEIJING: More than 1,000 people, many of them young children, have been forced to work as slaves in a brutal human trafficking ring in China that has shocked and outraged the nation, police said on Friday....
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UN mission for Somalia
UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council on Thursday underscored the need for contingency planning for a new United Nations mission in Somalia, which has been undermined by violent clashes and massive...
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Film on Daniel Pearl
NEW YORK: Most journalists invited to a special premiere of Angelina Jolie film "A Mighty Heart" on the kidnapping and death of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl refused to sign...
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JI head captured
JAKARTA: Indonesian police said on Friday they had captured the head of Southeast Asian extremist network Jemaah Islamiyah, blamed for some of the deadliest terror attacks in the region....
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US policy on Gaza is an embarrassment
WASHINGTON: Does Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas know something that we don’t? For five days his presidential security forces in Gaza came under organised attack by Hamas gunmen....
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Khartoum wins diplomatic victory over Darfur force
KHARTOUM: Sudan has won a diplomatic victory by accepting a joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur on terms that, once again, buy it more time and stave off sanctions, analysts say....
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270 brands to slake Italians’ thirst
RIARDO (Italy): Legend has it that the ancient Romans refreshed themselves with the bubbly water that springs out of an extinct volcano near Naples, a reference to which can be found even in philosopher Pliny the Elder’s works....
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Congress, court turn hostile to Bush stand on detainees
WASHINGTON: What President George W. Bush calls his “global war on terror” is drawing heavy fire on the home front, both from Congress and the courts....
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