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Six tribal leaders among 50 dead in Iraq
BAGHDAD, June 25: A suicide bomber killed six Iraqi tribal leaders opposed to Al Qaeda when he blew himself up at a busy Baghdad hotel, in one of four attacks on Monday that killed 50 people in all, police said.... 
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Israel to free 250 Fatah prisoners: Olmert
SHARM EL-SHEIKH (Egypt), June 25: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday he intended to free 250 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails in a goodwill gesture to President Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the moderate Fatah faction....
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Police grill Indian doctors over teen surgeon stunt
CHENNAI, June 25: Police in southern India said on Monday they had detained a doctor couple who allowed their 15-year-old son to perform a caesarian section in a bid to enter the record books....
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Nine Muslims jailed for killing Hindu leader
AHMEDABAD, June 25: An Indian court jailed nine Muslims men for life on Monday for the 2003 assassination of the former home minister of the western state of Gujarat....
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Fight against drugs paying off: UN report
VIENNA, June 25: Efforts to eradicate the world’s drug problem are paying off as cultivation, production and abuse appear to have stabilised worldwide, the UN said in its 2007 World Drug Report published on Monday....
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Sarkozy urges tough stance against Sudan: Darfur crisis
PARIS, June 25: French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged world powers on Monday to take a tough line with Sudan if it refuses to cooperate with international efforts to end bloodshed in Darfur....
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Egypt jails engineer for spying for Israel
CAIRO, June 25: Egypt’s state security court sentenced an engineer to 25 years’ jail on Monday for betraying nuclear secrets to Israel. Mohammed Sayyed Saber, 35, who was arrested at the...
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Hundreds of homes gutted in California
SAN FRANCISCO, June 25: Firefighters were on Monday battling to contain a raging forest fire near California''s Lake Tahoe that destroyed as many as 220 homes and forced the evacuation of 1,000 people, officials said....
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Castro says Bush ordered to kill him
HAVANA, June 25: Cuba''s communist leader Fidel Castro accused US President George W. Bush of ordering him killed even before moving into the White House, in an article published in the newspaper Granma on Monday....
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US to move some Gitmo inmates to Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, June 25: The United States is helping build a prison in Afghanistan to take some prisoners now at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino noted that...
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Brown appoints poll chief
LONDON, June 25: After being crowned leader of the Labour Party, Gordon Brown quickly appointed a party election chief, sparking rumours on Monday he might send the country to the polls within a year....
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So — two little letters that speak volumes
WASHINGTON: So . . . Arguably, no other two-letter word in the English language packs so much sizzle for its size. It’s a petite and potent word and it’s everywhere....
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Poland seeks India’s help to fight labour shortage
BERLIN, NEW DELHI, WARSAW: When Poland’s president, Lech Kaczynski, quipped recently that he was having trouble finding a decorator, the joke was not lost on a nation that has waved goodbye...
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EU leaders caught up in continental identity crisis
LOS ANGELES: Recently in Belgium, I watched hundreds of Europeans reenact the Battle of Waterloo. It was a surreal experience. Immaculately turned out in Napoleonic uniforms, the reenactors had spent the...
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Lankan govt, Tigers put the squeeze on media
COLOMBO: The overhead projector cast a ghastly glow on the larger-than-life picture of Darmarathnam Sivaram, the Sri Lankan Tamil journalist abducted and killed in April 2005....
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Armies must ready for global warming role: UK LONDON: Global warming is such a threat to security that military planners must build it into their calculations, the head of Britain''s armed forces said on Monday....
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Americans set charity record
WASHINGTON: US charitable giving hit a record $295.02 billion in 2006 as Americans topped the philanthropic effort from major disasters a year earlier, a survey showed on Monday....
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