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Israel suspends fuel supplies to Gaza
JERUSALEM, June 17: Israel said on Sunday it cut fuel supplies to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, increasing pressure on the Islamist group after it seized control of the impoverished territory.... 
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Hamas-Fatah split offers new chance, says Olmert
NEW YORK, June 17: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said the split between Hamas and Abbas’s Fatah movement offered a new opportunity for renewing ties with the Palestinians, but refused...
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Katyusha rockets from Lebanon hit Israeli town KIRYAT SHMONA (Israel), June 17: Suspected Palestinian militants in Lebanon hit a northern Israeli town with two Katyusha rockets on Sunday, Lebanese and Israeli officials said. No one was hurt....
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Baghdad, Basra curfew lifted
BAGHDAD, June 17: Vehicles and pedestrians returned to the streets of Baghdad and the southern city of Basra on Sunday with the lifting of indefinite curfew in the two cities imposed after attacks on shrines....
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Tamil film breaks record, sparks anger
KUALA LUMPUR, June 17: Tamil film ‘Sivaji’ created history in the Indian film industry in Malaysia with its opening day takings, an official said on Sunday despite glitches and violence that marred its premiere....
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EU foreign ministers meet for treaty talks
LUXEMBOURG, June 17: European foreign ministers entered talks on Sunday on a new EU treaty warning that extremely tough negotiations lay ahead, with several members states insisting on changes to Germany’s outline....
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Maid attempts daring escape in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, June 17: A 33-year-old Indonesian maid knotted pieces of cloth and used it as a rope to lower herself from a 15th storey condominium in Malaysia to escape alleged abuse, a report said on Sunday....
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Iran slams British knighthood for Rushdie
TEHRAN, June 17: Iran on Saturday accused British leaders of “Islamophobia” for knighting Indian-born author Salman Rushdie, who was issued with a death fatwa by Iran’s revolutionary leader 18 years ago....
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Former BD major deported from US to face death penalty
DHAKA, June 17: A former Bangladesh army officer arrested in the United States for his role in the 1975 military-backed coup in the South Asian nation is in the process of being extradited, officials said on Sunday....
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Bush goes extra mile on North Korea deal
WASHINGTON, June 17: By reversing himself on North Korea’s tainted accounts in a Macau-based bank, US President George W. Bush proved he was willing to go the extra mile for a nuclear deal with Pyongyang....
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War, red tape haunt civilian workers in Iraq, Afghanistan
HOUSTON: Samuel Walker saw combat in Iraq firsthand: He was splattered with human flesh and shrapnel in a dining hall when a suicide bomber blew himself up just a few feet away....
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Bush losing on two different fronts in terror war
WASHINGTON: The Bush administration is battling on two different fronts in the war on terrorism – and it may be losing on both. It is trying everything it can think of...
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Palestinians take battle to TV screens
RAMALLAH (West Bank), June 17: ‘Mercenaries!’ ‘Assassins!’ ‘Traitors!’ ‘Zionists!’ Rival Palestinian movements are taking their battle to television screens after the Islamist movement Hamas routed its secular Fatah rivals in Gaza....
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