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Putin sacks PM and government
MOSCOW, Sept 12: Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed his prime minister and government on Wednesday, paving the way for the Kremlin leader to handpick a successor when he steps down next year.... 
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Abe resigns after string of scandals
TOKYO, Sept 12: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe resigned on Wednesday after less than a year in power, falling victim to a string of scandals that hampered his reform agenda and sent his popularity plummeting....
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Sweden apologises over cartoon
JEDDAH, Sept 12: A Swedish envoy apologised to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference for the publication in Sweden of a blasphemous cartoon, the OIC said on Wednesday....
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Canada’s veiled voters allowed to cast vote
TORONTO, Sept 12: Canada’s chief electoral officer has declared that Muslim women wearing veils ‘will not have to show their faces at polling stations in the upcoming elections, but they may...
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UK to recall 3,600 troops from Germany
LONDON, Sept 12: Britain is to recall 3,600 troops from Germany between 2009 and 2014, the defence ministry said on Wednesday....
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Estrada guilty of plunder, gets life
MANILA, Sept 12: Former Philippine president Joseph Estrada was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday after an anti-graft court found him guilty of plunder....
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India, Russia launch anti-terror exercises
MOSCOW: Indian and Russian forces on Tuesday launched anti-terrorist exercises in the western Russian region of Pskov, the first of their kind on Russian soil, officials said....
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US has lost diplomatic clout: experts
LONDON: The US government has lost much diplomatic clout as the quagmire in Iraq has undermined its international prestige and distracted it from other problems, an influential think-tank said on Wednesday....
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Bush likely to announce troop reduction in Iraq WASHINGTON, Sept 12: US President George Bush will say on Thursday that he could pull some 30,000 US troops from Iraq by mid-2008, a move that may only further frustrate an anxious and war-weary US public....
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US military command for Africa
BRUSSELS: The United States launches in Germany next month a new military command for Africa with small teams of key staff, but no troops, based on the continent, a senior US defence official said on Wednesday....
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Germans fight to save hidden Nazi bunkers
NETTERSHEIM (Germany): Concealed in a thicket of brambles in hills southwest of Cologne, out of sight of the nearby motorway, an eerie relic of Germany’s Nazi past has been neglected for over 60 years....
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Democracy talks launched in BD
DHAKA: Army-backed authorities in Bangladesh opened crucial talks on Wednesday with major political parties aimed at steering the country down the path from emergency rule to democracy, officials said....
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Nato won’t join in Afghanistan’s poppy eradication
KABUL: The Nato military force in Afghanistan said on Wednesday it would not take part in eradication of opium poppy fields, despite calls by UN and the Afghan government for its troops to get involved....
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Hindus protest against India-Lanka sea lane
NEW DELHI: Thousands of right-wing Hindus launched protests across India on Wednesday against a plan to create a sea lane which they say would destroy the links between a revered string of islands....
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Fresh flood leaves over one million displaced
GUWAHATI (India): More than one million people have been evacuated or stranded as rivers in northeastern India and Bangladesh rose to alarming levels and submerged vast swathes of countryside, officials said on Monday....
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Indian schools begin flood awareness programme
GUWAHATI: The dusty roads and swelteringly heat of India’s north-eastern state of Assam now make it hard to believe that like England, it was hit by the worst floods in years just over a month ago....
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Skier gears up for first descent from highest peaks
KATHMANDU: Climbing all 14 of the world’s 8,000-metre peaks is old hat, so a new generation of adventurers is gearing up for what could be mountaineering’s next great challenge — getting down them on skis....
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India’s dancing bears given sanctuary
AGRA: They entertain passers-by along Indian highways, moving in slow-motion parodies of Bollywood dance routines....
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