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CIA toppled India’s communist government: CPI-M
NEW DELHI, June 21: India''s main communist party, the CPI(M), said on Thursday that the US intelligence agency CIA played a major role in toppling the world''s first elected communist government in Kerala way back in the 1950s.... 
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Suicide bomber kills 15 in Iraq
KIRKUK, June 21: At least 15 people were killed on Thursday when a suicide bomber exploded an oil tanker outside police headquarters in a northern Iraqi town, police and hospital officials said....
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India promotes hypersonic cruise missile
NEW DELHI: Indian President A P J Abdul Kalam on Thursday said that the country should aim to develop a “hypersonic” version of the supersonic cruise missile Brahmos to maintain supremacy in force levels, PTI said....
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New poll gives Bush thumbs down
NEW YORK, June 21: In a new poll President Bush gets thumbs down from majority of voters on his job performance (62 per cent disapproving) and his plan to bring back American soldiers home from Iraq as against the democrats....
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Bush may host Singh at his ranch
NEW DELHI, June 21: Indian and the US diplomats are trying to put together a summit meeting between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and US President George W....
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97,000 killed in Bosnian war: study
SARAJEVO, June 21: Bosnia''s 1992-1995 war claimed some 97,000 lives, or less than a half of a widely used figure, independent research revealed on Thursday. “At least 97,207 soldiers and civilians...
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A ‘broken people’ in booming India
DALLIPUR (India): The hip young Indians working inside this country’s multinational call centers have one thing in common: Almost all hail from India’s upper and middle castes, elites in this highly stratified society....
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A quiet revolution in money
WASHINGTON: It’s one of those vast social upheavals that everyone understands but that hardly anyone notices, because it seems too ordinary: The long-predicted ‘cashless society’ has quietly arrived, or nearly so;...
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Divided Russian opposition faces bleak prospects
MOSCOW: Six months before election season in Russia, the Kremlin is all but assured of resounding success in a climate which raises questions abroad about its democratic credentials but worries few ordinary Russians....
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Dream of a lunar observatory
PARIS: Desolate, airless and with no people around for hundreds of thousands of kilometers, the Moon is a great place – for astronomers, that is. Skywatchers have an enduring hope of...
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Bush govt close to being ‘in irons’
WASHINGTON: Sailors have a colorful phrase to describe a boat that is so close to the wind that it has stopped dead in the water – unable to fill its sails and make any headway....
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Millions celebrate summer solstice
PARIS: France was celebrating the summer solstice on Thursday with an all-night music festival in cities and towns that was to draw some 10 million revellers onto the streets....
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Khatami denies shaking hands with women
TEHRAN: Iran’s former reformist president Mohammad Khatami on Thursday vehemently denied breaking Islamic rules by shaking hands with women on a trip to Italy, amid growing condemnation from conservatives....
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Kuwaiti diplomat attacked in Iran
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait has condemned an assault on its diplomat in Iran. Describing it as an “attack on Kuwait”. It demanded an investigation into the incident....
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Three-year-old charged with rioting
PATNA: Police in India have charged a three-year-old boy for allegedly leading a group of rioters and firing at security personnel, the toddler''s uncle said on Thursday....
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