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Rice, Gates go to ME again for consensus
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Robert Gates travel to the Middle East next week seeking Arab support to stabilise Iraq but experts are cautious about what may be achieved.... 
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Yaqub Memon gets death sentence in Mumbai blast case
MUMBAI, July 27: An anti-terror court in India on Friday sentenced to death one of the main conspirators behind serial bomb blasts in Mumbai in 1993 that killed 257 people, prosecutors said.Yaqub...
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Three Nato troops killed
KABUL: Three Nato soldiers and an Afghan trooper were killed along with several insurgents in Afghanistan on Friday, while a helicopter gunship made a forced landing, the alliance said....
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Australia drops charge against Indian doctor
SYDNEY, July 27: Australia dropped charges against an Indian doctor allegedly involved in failed British car bombings and released him from custody on Friday, admitting mistakes were made rushing the case to court....
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US unhappy with Saudis: paper
NEW YORK, July 27: The Bush administration officials are “voicing increasing anger at what they say has been Saudi Arabia’s counter-productive role in the Iraq war” and are accusing Riyadh of...
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Sri Lanka faces political chaos
COLOMBO, July 27: The usually turbulent political scene in Sri Lanka was heading into a ‘fragmented storm’ as never before, analysts predicted on Friday, a day after a dissident faction of...
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Sacred bull Shambo killed in Britain
LONDON, July 27: A sacred bull with bovine tuberculosis who sparked a row between a British Hindu temple and the Welsh government over whether he should live or die has finally been killed, officials said on Friday....
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Manila halts operations after aid pullout threat
MANILA, July 27: The Philippines has suspended planned military operations against Muslim separatists blamed for beheading marines after Japan and Canada threatened to pull out of vital aid projects, officials said Friday....
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France makes move to end Lebanon crisis
BEIRUT, July 27: French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner arrives in Lebanon late on Friday on a delicate mission that observers say has little chance of ending a standoff between the country''s political parties....
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Diabetes drugs double heart attack risks
NEW YORK, July 27: Patients taking either of the diabetes drugs Avandia or Actos face twice the risk of developing heart failure compared to people not on the popular medications, a...
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Assam floods displace 600,000
GUWAHATI, July 27: Indian army soldiers and civil rescue teams remain on standby in north-eastern Assam state as flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains displaced 600,000 people, officials said on Friday....
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Former US sailors shake hands with Japan kamikaze
TOKYO: Sixty-two years ago they were bitter enemies — one a Japanese pilot trained to crash his plane into US ships on a suicide mission, the other two survivors of a ship sunk by one of the pilot’s kamikaze comrades....
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Global warming spells change in northern Russia
KANCHALAN (Russia): It is summer in this reindeer-herding village in northern Russia and with not an iceberg in sight, residents are acquiring a taste for bathing in the local river....
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Israel, Palestinians set sights on peace agenda JERUSALEM: Israelis and Palestinians are setting their sights on talks to finalise the status of the West Bank based on an Israeli pullout from most of the occupied territory after seven years of stalemate....
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Security scare, drunkenness report hit US space shuttle plan
WASHINGTON: NASA space shuttle programme was once again in crisis as officials found a sabotaged computer meant for an imminent mission, and a trade magazine reported astronauts had been drunk on duty....
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Sarkozy ‘going it alone’ in Libya deal: Germany
BERLIN: France''s offer of nuclear cooperation for Libya has sparked outrage in Germany, where lawmakers see it as yet another example of French President Nicolas Sarkozy''s “go-it-alone” approach to foreign policy....
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Blast kills Muslim leader in Dagestan
MAKHACHKALA (Russia): A senior Muslim cleric and his brother were killed when their car was blown up overnight in the southern Russian province of Dagestan, the region''s top prosecutor said on Friday....
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Russians detain 28 N. Korean fishermen
VLADIVOSTOK (Russia): Russian border guards detained 28 North Korean fishermen overnight for illegal squid fishing off Russia''s far east coast, a border official said on Friday....
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Israel’s navy chief resigns
JERUSALEM: Israel''s naval commander Admiral David Ben Bashat has resigned earlier than expected, the army announced on Friday amid continued fallout from last summer''s Lebanon war.Ben...
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Support for AU, UN
LONDON: The UK Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, and the French Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Bernard Kouchner on Friday in a joint statement reconfirmed their continued and full support for...
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