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50 Taliban killed in fierce clashes
KABUL, July 26: Afghan and US-led forces killed more than 50 Taliban in a 12-hour battle in the nation''s opium-growing heartland, while a soldier and 10 rebels died in separate incidents, officials said on Thursday.... 
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Six Palestinians killed in Israeli raid
GAZA CITY, July 26: Six Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces on Thursday, as ground troops raided the southern Gaza Strip and aircraft launched a series of sorties targeting militants....
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15 Syrian soldiers die in blast
DAMASCUS: A massive blast on Thursday at an ammunitions depot in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo killed 15 soldiers and wounded 50, the official SANA news agency said....
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Car bomb claims 25 lives in Baghdad
BAGHDAD: A powerful car bomb rocked central Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 25 bystanders, wounding more than 75 and destroying a row of shops in a busy commercial district....
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Sentenced to 15 years on terrorist charge
NEW YORK: Mahmud Faruq Brent, also known as “Mahmud Almutazzim,” was sentenced on Wednesday to 15 years’ imprisonment on charges that he conspired to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organisation, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Michael J....
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China plans to buy N-reactors from France
PARIS, July 26: French company Areva was close to clinching the biggest contract in its history on Thursday, with France and China set to sign an agreement on construction of two third-generation EPR nuclear reactors, sources close to the deal said....
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’71 war veteran to be new Indian army chief
NEW DELHI: India on Thursday named Lt Gen Deepak Kapoor, aveteran of the 1971 war with Pakistan and who commanded the army''s largest and most sensitive northern command for the last two years as the next Chief of Army Staff....
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Iraq warns of humanitarian crisis
AMMAN, July 26: Iraq warned of a humanitarian crisis on Thursday as it appealed to the international community to help countries hosting hundreds of thousands of Iraqis uprooted by war.“The...
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UK takes new measures for security, surveillance
LONDON, July 26: New technology is being used to strengthen UK government''s ability to stop fraud and forgery and check people in and out of the country....
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Australia may sell uranium to India
CANBERRA, July 26: Australia might lift its ban on selling uranium to India if New Delhi forms the nuclear partnership it is negotiating with the United States, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said on Thursday....
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S. Korean hostage pleads for help
WASHINGTON, July 26: A South Korean woman held hostage along with 21 fellow aid workers by Taliban militants in Afghanistan begged for help during a phone interview, CBS television said on Thursday....
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Military in or out of Turkish politics?
ISTANBUL: Turkey has a powerful military with no qualms about direct or other forms of intervention in politics in the name of its constitutional powers — safeguarding a secular republic from both external and internal threats....
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EU under pressure to ban mercury usage
LONDON: Mercury is a known poison that can damage the nervous system, so why is it still being used to fill cavities in peoples’ teeth? The European Union is grappling with...
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Bush administration distorts Iran’s intentions in Iraq
WASHINGTON: As US and Iranian diplomats met in Baghdad on Tuesday for a second round of talks on Iraq, the domestic US political climate appears decidedly more supportive of an aggressive...
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Suspicion falls on arsonists as Europe braces for more fires
ROME: Alert levels remained high on Thursday in southern Europe where a devastating heatwave persisted as environmentalists blamed many of the fires raging in Italy on arsonists....
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Days are numbered for Nepal’s monarchy
KATHMANDU: A republican wave that swept King Gyanendra out of power last year continues to blow strongly through Nepal. Three times in the past two weeks, the king was put to great embarrassment....
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More rain forecast for Britain
HENLEY-ON-THAMES (England): More rains were forecast on Thursday for flood-hit areas as meteorologists said the three months from May to July were the wettest for England and Wales since records began in 1766....
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Bush’s AG faces threat of perjury probe
WASHINGTON: A senior US senator is threatening to request a perjury inquiry into President George W. Bush''s attorney general amid accusations his sworn testimony before Congress contradicted an account from a top intelligence official....
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Remains of Srebrenica grave
SARAJEVO: Remains believed to account for more than 130 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre have been exhumed from a mass grave in eastern Bosnia, a forensic expert said on Thursday....
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