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Iraqi Shias, Kurds form new alliance
BAGHDAD, Aug 16: Iraq’s top Shia and Kurdish leaders formed a new political alliance on Thursday to salvage Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s embattled government, but without rival Sunni leaders.... 
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Iran terms US missile shield a threat to Asia
BISHKEK, Aug 16: A proposed US missile defence shield in central Europe would threaten Asia, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday at a regional summit in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek....
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China, Russia lead calls for ‘multipolar world’ at summit
BISHKEK, Aug 16: The leaders of China, Russia and four Central Asian states met on Thursday in Kyrgyzstan to build on growing military and political ties seen as countering US influence in the strategic region....
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500 dead in Peru quake
PISCO (Peru), Aug 16: Officials battled on Thursday to help victims of a huge quake which rocked Peru''s southern tourist coast killing some 500, injuring hundreds more, and leaving many feared trapped in the rubble....
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13 die as Japan endures hottest day
TOKYO, Aug 16: The temperature hit an all-time high in Japan on Thursday with the extreme summer heat bending train rails and killing at least 13 people this week....
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India tests combat helicopter
BANGALORE: India carried out the first flight on Thursday of a weaponised combat helicopter it is developing to equip its armed forces as well as potential overseas customers, including Turkey....
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Protest against bid to defame Muslim bodies
NEW YORK: Organisations of American Muslim are protesting against US Justice Department''s effort to smear the entire Muslim community by naming some of its largest organisations as unindexed co-conspirators in a Texas terrorism trial....
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India picks sites for five atomic plants
NEW DELHI: The future of the Indo-US civilian nuclear deal looks uncertain, but the government has already selected sites for new atomic power plants, a report said on Thursday....
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Thousands pay respect to Elvis on anniversary
MEMPHIS (Tennessee), Aug 16: With flickering candles in hand, tens of thousands of Elvis fans on Thursday filed solemnly through the gates of Graceland to pay their respects on the 30th anniversary of the King’s death....
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North Korean N-talks resume
SHENYANG (China), Aug 16: Negotiators in six-nation talks to halt North Korea''s nuclear drive held a first day of discussions on Thursday on steps the secretive regime must take to keep disarmament on track....
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Indonesian president warns against separatism JAKARTA, Aug 16: Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday warned that his government has no tolerance for separatist sentiment in the world''s largest archipelagic country....
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US citizen convicted in terror trial
MIAMI, Aug 16: Jose Padilla, a US citizen held by the military for three years as an “enemy combatant”, was convicted on Thursday in a trial seen as a centrepiece of the Bush administration''s efforts to battle terrorism....
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Extortion bid halts medicine supply to Manipur GUWAHATI, Aug 16: Medicine shipments to a revolt-hit state in India’s northeast have dried up after pharmaceutical firms were told to pay 250,000 dollars in extortion money, officials said on Thursday....
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Homegrown Muslims prone to radicalisation: US study
NEW YORK, Aug 16: A 90-page report hailed as the first to measure `homegrown’ terror in the United States, has concluded that young Muslim men aged 15-35 are particularly vulnerable to `radicalisation’....
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Where to use water — for biofuels or for food?
STOCKHOLM: Biofuels, hailed by many as the green solution to offset a coming oil shortage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, are not a cure-all solution, experts at a water conference in Stockholm warned this week....
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Unwelcome choices confront Japanese
TOKYO: Japan, 62 years after the traumatic surrender that ended World War II on August 15, 1945, has the satisfaction of rising to be a powerful influence in Asia....
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Erdogan’s decision to nominate Gul risky
ANKARA: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s decision to nominate Abdullah Gul as candidate for the presidency of Turkey can only be labelled brave. Half of the country’s population, joined by the...
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Talking of freedom not sufficient to win Muslim hearts
LONDON: Now that the UK government has disowned the idea of a war on terror, there is a chance that western policy can be rescued from the quicksands of Iraq and provided with a strategy capable of defeating extremism....
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Just to promote Edgar Allan Poe
BALTIMORE: The legend was almost too good to be true. For decades, a mysterious figure dressed in black, his features cloaked by a wide-brimmed hat and scarf, crept into a churchyard...
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Last symbols of Ghaznavi empire under threat
GHAZNI: For more than eight centuries the “Towers of Victory” — monuments to Afghanistan''s greatest empire — have survived wars and invasions, but now weather and neglect could cause them to come crashing down....
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Suharto’s son quizzed over graft
JAKARTA: The youngest son of former dictator Suharto appeared at the Indonesian attorney general''s office on Thursday to be quizzed as a suspect in a multi-million-dollar graft case over a state monopoly he led....
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Hamas briefly detains attorney-general
GAZA CITY: Hamas briefly detained the Palestinian attorney-general in Gaza on Thursday, the highest-ranking Palestinian Authority official the Islamists have seized since taking control of the territory....
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