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US likely to cut troops in Iraq after Ramazan
WASHINGTON, Sept 4: The United States indicated on Tuesday that it may begin withdrawing some troops from Iraq after Ramazan if the country remained peaceful during the fasting month.... 
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Palestinians win Israeli court battle over barrier
JERUSALEM, Sept 4: Palestinians in a village at the centre of violent weekly protests against Israel’s controversial West Bank barrier won a Supreme Court battle on Tuesday to have it rerouted....
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Naval exercises with US spur protests in India
NEW DELHI, Sept 4: Nearly 36 years after it dispatched theSeventh Fleet to the Bay of Bengal with an implied warning of a nuclear assault on India, a US armada began...
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India seeks BD help over blast cases
NEW DELHI, Sept 4: India’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that the country had sought help from Bangladesh to catch the perpetrators of a spate of bomb blasts, including explosions that killed 43 people in August....
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Police arrest eight terror suspects in Denmark
COPENHAGEN, Sept 4: Danish police claimed on Tuesday to have averted a terrorist attack with the arrest overnight of eight men allegedly linked to Al Qaeda and in possession of explosives....
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Muslim punk rock group making waves
NEW YORK, Sept 4: A Muslim punk rock band, called ‘Kominas’ is making waves in the music scene in the United States and is the focus of attention of religious groups...
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Rafsanjani to head key Iran body
TEHRAN, Sept 4: Former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was on Tuesday elected head of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, continuing his political comeback from the humiliation of defeat in the 2005 presidential election....
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BD court jails academics
DHAKA, Sept 4: A Bangladesh court on Tuesday sent two senior academics to jail after they were detained following student unrest last month, police said....
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The retreat from Basra — a defeat?
LONDON: It seems so very long ago. On April 6, 2003, the day the city of Basra was finally occupied by British troops, there was a febrile, uncertain sense of excitement....
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Turkey’s constitutional reforms may stir tensions
ANKARA: Turkey’s secular elite, stung by the election of an ex-Islamist president, faces a historic battle over AK Party government plans to jettison a military-inspired constitution and usher in radical reforms....
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TV addiction linked to attention problems
CHICAGO: Watching television more than two hours a day early in life can lead to attention problems later in adolescence, according to a study released on Tuesday....
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Wireless to transfer data from gadget to gadget
ATLANTA: With a wave of his hand over a homemade receiver, Georgia Tech professor Joy Laskar shows how easily — and quickly — large data files could someday be transferred from a portable media player to a TV....
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Science should be ‘as exciting as science fiction’: Hawking
CAMBRIDGE: British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking revealed his desire on Sunday to make “real science as exciting as science fiction” as he publicised a new book for children about the cosmos....
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Sarkozy cashes in on rugby mania
PARIS: While most French presidents have avoided sport, Nicolas Sarkozy prides himself on televised jogging sessions, cheering the Tour de France and appearing in the stands of the Paris Saint Germain football team....
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Rock stars more likely to live fast, die young: study
LONDON: From suicide to drug overdose, murder to bizarre gardening accidents — the hallowed halls of rock legend are littered with fallen young men and women who took the phrase “live fast, die young” as more life instruction than metaphor....
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