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Parliament fails to conveneamid Hamas boycott
RAMALLAH, July 11: A boycott by Hamas MPs prevented the Palestinian parliament from convening on Wednesday, clearing the way for president Mahmud Abbas to exploit the paralysis to extend the mandate of his emergency cabinet....
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Libya court confirms six medics’ death penalty
TRIPOLI, July 11: Libya’s Supreme Court on Wednesday confirmed the death penalty against six foreign medics convicted of infecting hundreds of children with the Aids virus, but a reprieve may still...
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Militants kill 14 Philippine marines
BASILAN (Philippines), July 11: Islamic militants killed 14 Philippine marines searching for a kidnapped Italian priest during a major gunbattle, and later beheaded 10 of them, the military said on Wednesday....
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11 killed in Iraq bomb attack
BAGHDAD, July 11: At least 11 people were killed on Wednesday when insurgents herded them into a house in the western village of Karmah and then blew it up, the US military said.The...
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Army claims capturing LTTE’s last eastern base
COLOMBO, July 11: The Sri Lankan government’s ‘war for peace’ campaign is set to take a fresh turn with the military saying on Wednesday that it had captured the LTTE’s last eastern bastion located in forest territory of the Batticaloa district....
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Military response cannot be ruled out: Turkey: Kurd rebels
WASHINGTON, July 11: Iraqi Kurdish leaders are arming rebels with US-made weapons for attacks inside Turkey, the Turkish ambassador said here on Wednesday, warning that Ankara could not rule out a military response....
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UN team in Iran for nuclear talks
TEHRAN, July 11: The UN atomic watchdog’s deputy head arrived in Tehran on Wednesday in a new bid to resolve the international standoff over Iran’s nuclear drive, with Western pressure mounting for more UN sanctions....
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US nukes in UK ‘posed safety threat’
PARIS, July 11: Nuclear-tipped cruise missiles deployed at a US base in Britain in the 1980s could have exposed millions of people to plutonium inhalation if an accident occurred, the British weekly New Scientist says....
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German hostage freed in Iraq
BERLIN, July 11: A German woman held hostage in Iraq since early February has been freed but her son remains in the hands of the kidnappers, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Wednesday....
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Suicide bomber kills eight Algerian soldiers
ALGIERS, July 11: A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed truck into an Algerian barracks on Wednesday killing eight soldiers a few hours before a major African sporting event begun in the capital, security sources said....
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Four killed as Thai PM visits south
NARATHIWAT (Thailand), July 11: Suspected separatists shot dead a government official and three other people in Thailand’s south as the country’s premier began a two-day visit to the region on Wednesday....
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Palestinians flee Lebanon camp
NAHR AL BARED (Lebanon), July 11: Scores of Palestinians fled a besieged refugee camp in northern Lebanon on Wednesday, ahead of a possible army assault to crush Islamist fighters holed up inside the shantytown....
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IAEA team returns to N. Korea on 14th
SEOUL, July 11: United Nations atomic agency inspectors are likely to return to North Korea on Saturday to monitor the shutdown of its reactor, the agency’s chief has said....
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More victims buried on Srebrenica anniversary SREBRENICA, July 11: Thousands of Bosnian Muslims on Wednesday attended the funeral of 465 more victims of the Srebrenica massacre on the 12th anniversary of one of modern Europe’s darkest chapters....
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US sees higher attack risk
WASHINGTON, July 11: Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said in an interview released on Wednesday that the United States faced a higher risk of a terrorist attack over the summer months....
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No respite for Lanka’s ‘abduction’ victims
COLOMBO: Chandradevi, a resident of Puttalam, around 100km north of Colombo, anxiously sits in a small office located in a busy, narrow street in Pettah, the bazaar area of the capital....
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Britain’s terror plot inquiry focuses on Indian Muslims
NEW DELHI: India had long boasted its huge Muslim population had never provided recruits for global Islamic extremist groups, but that belief seems shattered after Indian Muslims were arrested in an attempt to bomb Britain....
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US firm unable to shake off Bhopal liability
NEW DELHI: Try as it might Dow Chemical Company is unable to shake off the criminal liability it inherited for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster and also responsibility to clean up...
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Music is in the air in Afghanistan
KABUL: Bombs and rockets may have reduced Afghanistan’s cultural heart to rubble, but it has not completely destroyed a people’s centuries-old love of classical Hindustani music....
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Truth is a casualty in Afghan fighting
KABUL: The issue of civilian deaths in Afghanistan is itself becoming a “battleground” with truth often a casualty, showing the difficulty of establishing facts in a war fought in often remote areas....
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17,000 arrested in BD corruption crackdown
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s military-backed emergency government has arrested 17,000 people as part of its corruption crackdown, an official said on Wednesday. Those detained include at least 150 leading politicians, businessmen and bureaucrats,...
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Iran probes death by stoning sentence
TEHRAN: Iran’s judiciary has launched a probe against the judge who ordered the stoning to death of a man convicted of adultery despite suspension of such executions, the ISNA news agency reported on Wednesday....
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Rice accuses Sudan of ‘cat and mouse’ diplomacy
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday accused Sudan''s government of playing a “cat and mouse” game in the planned deployment of a joint African Union-UN peacekeeping force for the troubled Darfur region....
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Al Qaeda killed, wounded 4,000 Iraqis in 6 months
BAGHDAD: Al Qaeda in Iraq has killed or wounded more than 4,000 Iraqis in suicide attacks in the past six months, United States military spokesman Brig-Gen Kevin Bergner told reporters on Wednesday....
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Move to protect 10 penguin species
WASHINGTON: Citing global warming as a threat, the United States has taken a key step toward instituting protections for emperor penguins and nine other penguin species under the US Endangered Species Act....
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Kidnapped foreigners released in Nigeria
LAGOS: Gunmen on Wednesday released five foreigners, a week after they were seized from an Anglo-Dutch Shell oil rig in southern Nigeria, police and government sources said....
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Passenger ship disappears
JAKARTA: At least two people were dead and some 45 missing after a passenger ship disappeared in rough seas in eastern Indonesia. “There are still about 45 people missing....
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