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30 Afghan civilians killed in air strike
KABUL, June 30: More than 30 civilians were reported killed and dozens wounded on Saturday in an air strike by foreign forces fighting the Taliban in southern Helmand province, a regional official said.... 
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US kills 26 militants in Baghdad: 6 die in suicide bombing
BAGHDAD, June 30: US troops killed about 26 suspected militants in Sadr City here on Saturday in one of the fiercest clashes in the Shia stronghold since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq....
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Ershad steps down as party chief
DHAKA, June 30: Bangladesh’s former military ruler Hossain Mohammad Ershad on Saturday stepped down as chief of his troubled Jatiya Party and appointed a former foreign minister as acting chief....
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Kuwait’s oil minister resigns
KUWAIT CITY, June 30: Kuwait’s Oil Minister Sheikh Ali Jarrah Al-Sabah has stepped down along with the communications minister, reported the state run official media KUNA....
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Guantanamo judge rejects charges against Canadian
MIAMI, June 30: A US military judge for the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals has refused to reinstate the charges against a Canadian prisoner accused of killing a US soldier in Afghanistan....
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US eyes world’s biggest aircraft deal with India
WASHINGTON, June 30: US aircraft manufacturers are eyeing a lucrative multi-billion dollar deal with India, which they say will be the world’s biggest contract for combat planes in 15 years....
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US, S. Korea sign free trade pact
WASHINGTON, June 30: The United States and South Korea signed on Saturday a landmark free-trade agreement, the biggest such deal for Washington in nearly 15 years, but the US Congress has indicated it may not approve the pact....
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Small bomb ‘goes off’ at Spain’s airport
MADRID, June 30: A small bomb exploded at Spain’s Ibiza airport on Saturday, after it had been evacuated, the website of newspaper El Pais reported....
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US boosting security at airports
KENNEBUNKPORT (Maine), June 30: US airports will see an increased presence of local police and federal security officials amid heightened vigilance following an explosion in Glasgow and a bomb alert in London, the White House said on Saturday....
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50 Muslim Brotherhood men held in Egypt
CAIRO, June 30: Egyptian police detained 50 students from the Muslim Brotherhood, the country’s most powerful opposition group, in a renewed crackdown on the movement on Saturday, a Brotherhood source said.A...
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Washington claims killing Al Qaeda man
BAGHDAD, June 30: The US military said on Saturday that its forces had killed an Egyptian man believed to be a senior member of al Qaeda in Iraq on Friday....
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Brown must break with Bush now
LONDON: There’s an odd myth about new UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. His views on the war in Iraq are said to be unknown. Whether the myth is put out by...
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US disputes Iraqi claim on beheaded bodies
BAGHDAD, June 30: Media reports attributed to Iraqi police of 20 decapitated bodies found south of Baghdad this week were untrue and may have been planted by insurgents to provoke revenge attacks, the US military said on Saturday....
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Growth policies need to be pro-poor
GENEVA: ‘Pro-poor Growth’ sounded impressive as the title for a plenary at a major civil society meet here, but after the idea was explored, toyed with, taken apart and viewed from...
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Culture is not an industry
LONDON: The financial power of the creative industries in the UK — comparable, we’re told, to the financial-services sector, and growing at twice the speed of the general economy — was...
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Rulers should be made to study history
LONDON: A memorial service in London’s Reform Club on Monday celebrated the late Arthur Schlesinger, finest of American post-war historians. Lauren Bacall, Edna O’Brien and admiring academics, diplomats and friends sang his praises....
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French cooking writer turns to UK
PARIS: Trish Deseine knew she was being provocative when she titled her first cookbook in English “Nobody Does it Better,” referring to French women in the kitchen....
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