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North Korea agrees to address N-issue: US
WASHINGTON, June 26: North Korea has agreed to address questions over its controversial highly enriched uranium programme that triggered a nearly five-year atomic standoff with Washington, US envoy Christopher Hill said on Monday.“We... 
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Heatwave kills 40 in Europe
BUCHAREST, June 26: A searing heatwave has killed 40 people across southern Europe while in Britain torrential rain has killed three people and forced hundreds to flee a creaking dam.Twenty-nine...
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Maoists enforce blockade in three Indian states RANCHI, June 26: Maoist rebels in eastern India blew up a section of railway track, attacked trains and paralysed public transport at the start of a 48-hour blockade aimed at derailing government plans to establish special economic zones....
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Exploitation of natural resources
UNITED NATION: Pakistan on Monday called upon the UN Security Council to establish a new task force of experts to study the exploitation of natural resources in nations, especially the complex crises in Africa....
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24,000 illegal expats benefit from amnesty
KUWAIT CITY: About 24,000 illegal expatriates have benefited from the two-month amnesty and left the country, announced the head of Inspection and Detection division at the ministry of interior....
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US Muslims face isolation, radicalism: study
CHICAGO, June 26: Muslim Americans must meld into US society before suspicion and mistrust lingering since the attacks on New York and Washington isolate them and spark radicalism in their ranks, a study said on Monday....
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Russia warns Nato over European security
MOSCOW, June 26: Russia warned Nato on Tuesday against unilateral policies that could destabilise security on the European continent, but agreed to keep talking on deep divisions between the former Cold War foes....
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Blair touted as ME envoy
JERUSALEM, June 26: The four sponsors of the stagnant Middle East peace process met on Tuesday for the first time since Hamas seized Gaza, amid mounting speculation that outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair could be anointed their new envoy....
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Paris Hilton released from jail
LOS ANGELES: Smiling and waving for a scrum of cameras, Paris Hilton returned to the celebrity limelight on Tuesday after completing a three-week jail term for drunk-driving violations....
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Mummy of woman who ruled as pharaoh identified
CAIRO: The centuries-old search for the mummy of Queen Hatshepsut, the only woman to have reigned as a pharaoh in Egypt, may finally have ended....
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China confiscates tainted US food imports
BEIJING: Chinese customs inspectors have seized contaminated shipments of fruit products imported from the United States and ordered more thorough checks of US food imports, state press said on Tuesday....
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Former BD minister sentenced
DHAKA: A court in emergency-ruled Bangladesh on Tuesday sentenced a former government minister to five years behind bars for possessing alcohol at his home without a permit, officials said....
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Guinean migrants turn dust into gold
DAKAR: It looks like a mediaeval alchemist’s den, this tumbledown shack where young Africans use bubbling blue acid to turn dust into gold....
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Tensions rise on Turkey’s border with Iraq
DASHT TAKH (Iraq): Farouq Youhana fled car bombs and snipers in Baghdad to start a new life in a village in northern Iraq’s autonomous region of Kurdistan....
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Turkey’s EU hopes dim with French move
ISTANBUL: France’s move to block European Union negotiations with Turkey on economic and monetary policy could spell the beginning of the end for Turkey’s hopes of full membership....
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US, Iraqi forces to fight ‘corruption’
BAGHDAD: As if the daily suicide bombings and kidnappings are not enough, US forces and their Iraqi counterparts are battling a hidden but no less lethal danger — corruption....
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Brown takes a cool look at foreign policy
LONDON: Gordon Brown will pursue Tony Blair’s broadly pro-US stance once he moves into 10 Downing Street this week, but with likely cooler relations with President George W. Bush, analysts say....
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South African govt fails to bridge rich-poor gap MAMELODI: Sara Mampane has been waiting for the African National Congress to fulfil its promise of a new home — what she calls a “proper house”, where the only corrugated iron...
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