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India-UK begin mly drills in Ladakh
NEW DELHI, Sept 17: British troops, some of them recently deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq, on Monday began a three-week exercise with Indian units in the mountainous terrain of Ladakh.... 
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Iraq cancels US firm’s licence after shootout
BAGHDAD, Sept 17: Iraq ordered the cancellation on Monday of the operating licence of US security firm Blackwater, after it was involved in a shootout in Baghdad that killed eight people, a senior official told AFP....
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Colombo links peace to Tigers’ defeat
TRINCOMALEE (Sri Lanka), Sept 17: A top Sri Lankan official said Monday that Tamil Tiger rebels need to be defeated ahead of any political settlement in the island’s long-running ethnic conflict....
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Saudis in $8.9bn deal with UK for Eurofighter
RIYADH, Sept 17: Saudi Arabia announced on Monday it has signed a 4.43 billion pound ($8.86bn) deal to buy 72 Eurofighter planes, after tortuous negotiations on one of the largest ever British export orders....
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Delhi orders ministers to stop squabbles: India-Lanka sea lane
NEW DELHI, Sept 17: India’s ruling Congress party on Monday ordered cabinet ministers not to target each other over a plan to build a sea lane through sandy shoals that millions of Hindus worship as a sacred site....
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China keeps India tantalised on nuclear aid
NEW DELHI, Sept 17: Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon on Monday began official talks in Beijing to prepare for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit there later this year, but Chinese officials...
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Afghanistan a ‘litmus test’ for Nato: Gates
WASHINGTON, Sept 17: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates warned on Monday that Afghanistan is a “litmus test” for Nato and would be “a mark of shame on all of us” if the alliance falters in laying the foundations for democracy there....
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Afghan blast claims eight lives
KANDAHAR, Sept 17: A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a district police headquarters in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing four policemen and four civilians, a government official said....
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US official in BD to hold election talks
DHAKA, Sept 17: A US official will hold talks with Bangladesh leaders on Tuesday on plans of the country’s army-backed interim administration to hold elections late next year....
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Fundamental brain defect identified
WASHINGTON, Sept 17: US scientists have discovered how the gene mutation responsible for fragile X syndrome — the most common inherited form of mental retardation — alters the way brain cells communicate, a published report said on Monday....
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Microsoft suffers decisive EU anti-trust defeat
BRUSSELS, Sept 17: Microsoft suffered a decisive antitrust defeat on Monday when a European Union court upheld a landmark ruling that the world’s largest software maker had abused its dominant market position to crush rivals....
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Darfur violence threatens peace talks: Ban
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 17: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned on Monday recent fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region, warning it could derail peace talks he has announced will start in Libya next month....
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Five killed in Somali violence
MOGADISHU, Sept 17: Five people have been killed in the latest violence in Somalia, including three in clashes between rival sub-clans south of Mogadishu, witnesses said.Militiamen...
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Bush names new AG
WASHINGTON, Sept 17: US President George Bush on Monday formally nominated retired federal judge Michael Mukasey as attorney-general and urged the US Senate to confirm him swiftly....
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Ageing population haunts Japan
TOKYO: Japanese corporations, which have emerged leaner and more profitable thanks to lessons learned in the 1990s “lost decade” of economic stagnation, must now adapt to the country’s ageing and declining population....
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China to observe ‘no car day’
BEIJING: China will initiate its first-ever nationwide “no car day” this weekend in an effort to promote environmental health and alleviate increasingly gridlocked urban roads, state press said Monday....
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Iraq turmoil threatens US-backed political deals
BAGHDAD: Muqtada al-Sadr’s decision to withdraw from the Shia bloc is the most dramatic sign of the transformation in Iraqi politics. Old alliances are fraying, new ones are forming....
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Iran blocks, then unblocks Google
TEHRAN: Iran on Monday unblocked access to the Google search engine and its Gmail email service after briefly filtering them owing to an “error”, the Fars news agency reported.“Due...
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Iran carpet traders hope quality will trump rivals
TEHRAN: Standing next to piles of exquisitely hand-woven Persian carpets, Hossein Ghaseminia is confident his rugs, which cost up to $50,000, can see off cheaper Asian rivals and ride out threatened US sanctions....
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Three hurt as Nokia phone battery explodes
KOLKATA: Three people suffered minor burn injuries in eastern India when the battery of a Nokia mobile phone exploded while it was being charged, police said on Monday....
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Afghanistan’s deminers not scared of danger
AHMAD KHAN VILLAGE (Afghanistan): Standing on a parched plain flanked by rugged mountains near Kabul, you don’t have to look far to see the dangers.Landmines, cluster bombs and unspent shells left...
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Trial of Suharto’s son postponed
JAKARTA: An Indonesian court on Monday postponed for two weeks the opening hearing in a civil lawsuit against the youngest son of ex-president Suharto attempting to recover state money lost in a land scam....
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A warning to Greek PM
ATHENS: Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis’ conservatives were given a second mandate for reform in weekend elections but their downsized majority was also a warning to avoid the mistakes of the past, analysts said on Monday....
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Cremation: Afghan Sikhs protest
KABUL: More than 100 Afghan Sikhs, the country’s smallest religious group, marched through Kabul with a corpse on Monday to protest attempts by Muslim villagers to stop them from cremating the body....
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Waging ‘war on terrorism’ 30 squares at a time
GUANTANAMO BAY US NAVAL BASE (Cuba): Ringed by cells where bearded men pace back and forth behind windowed doors, a US sailor in camouflage fatigues stood by a metal table with...
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BD appeals for release of kidnapped worker
DHAKA: Bangladesh on Monday appealed for the release of a development worker kidnapped at the weekend in Afghanistan by suspected criminals....
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