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S. Arabia overhauls judicial system
RIYADH, Oct 5: Saudi Arabia has announced an overhaul of its judicial system. King Abdullah approved the establishment of a Supreme Court as well as commercial, personal status and labour tribunals.... 
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Iran rules out talks on ‘nuclear rights’
TEHRAN, Oct 5: Iran on Friday ruled out any negotiations with world powers over its right to sensitive nuclear activities, amid growing pressure from the United States and Europe for more sanctions against Tehran....
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US forces kill 25 Iraqis
BAGHDAD, Oct 5: US operations against insurgents near the Iraqi city of Baquba on Friday killed at least 25 people the military said were “criminals” but Iraqi officials said women and children were among the dead....
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US failed to raise Afghan police force, Congress told
WASHINGTON, Oct 5: The United States has spent $6 billion on training the Afghan police force since 2002 yet “not a single unit is capable of operating on its own, says the chairman of a key congressional panel....
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France, Turkey agree to mend fences
ANKARA, Oct 5: France and Turkey said on Friday they would work to mend fences and seek closer cooperation, despite lingering disputes over Ankara’s EU membership bid and the Armenian massacres of the Ottoman era....
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Asylum seekers abused in UK: report
LONDON, Oct 5: Hundreds of asylum seekers who were deported upon the rejection of their application were allegedly racially and physically abused by British teams escorting them to their home countries, The Independent reported on Friday....
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7 rebels killed in Manipur
GUWAHATI, Oct 5: Security forces have shot dead seven separatists in three clashes in India’s restive northeastern state of Manipur, authorities said Friday....
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Suu Kyi may meet top general
YANGON: Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will consider positively a heavily conditioned offer to meet the head of the junta, her party said on Friday, as a US envoy headed to meet the isolated regime’s leaders....
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Nepal polls called off
KATHMANDU, Oct 5: Elections to decide Nepal’s future have been postponed indefinitely, ministers said on Friday, as government and Maoists squabbled over the fate of the monarchy and election systems....
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‘Che Guevera was the St Francis of politics’
RIO DE JANEIRO: Forty years after Ernesto Che Guevara’s death, Brazilian liberation theology pioneer Fray Betto on Friday called him a “St. Francis of Politics.” “Che was our revolutionary paradigm,” Fray...
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Clooney marriage bet now at $100,000
LONDON: Hollywood actress Michelle Pfeiffer’s bet with George Clooney that he will never marry again currently stands at $100,000, she said in an interview to be shown on Friday....
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Canada’s jobless rate dips to 33-year low
OTTAWA: Canada’s unemployment rate dipped 0.1 percentage points to 5.9 per cent in September, its lowest level in 33 years, with 51,000 mostly full-time jobs created, Statistics Canada said on Friday....
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BBC executive quits over queen’s crown affair
LONDON: A BBC television executive resigned on Friday over a documentary which wrongly implied Queen Elizabeth II stormed out of a photo shoot with celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz after a row over her crown....
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Myanmar offer to Suu Kyi seen as ‘sop’ to West BANGKOK: A rare offer by Myanmar’s top general to meet Aung San Suu Kyi is an attempt to placate an increasingly irate international community and keep anti-junta demonstrators off the streets, analysts say....
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Get out of Afghanistan, says France’s spy writer
PARIS: France’s top-selling spy writer has some trenchant advice for Western forces fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan: get out while you can....
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No knockout punch for peace as N. Korea skirts nuclear issue SEOUL: South Korea’s president raised North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s arm into the air on Thursday like a champion prizefighter after a bout, wrapping up the second-ever summit between the divided Koreas....
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Labour lead slashed
LONDON: The scale of the election gamble confronting Gordon Brown is revealed on Oct 5, 2007, in a Guardian ICM poll showing Labour and the Tories neck and neck, closing an...
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Are the Nobel science prizes outdated?
STOCKHOLM: They were created more than 100 years ago in a world that had yet to discover radioactivity or cinema, but are the Nobel prizes now outdated in our era of...
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Bush fails to deliver on promise to ‘solve problems, not pass them on’
WASHINGTON: Over and over, President George W. Bush confidently promised to “solve problems, not pass them on to future presidents and future generations”. As the clock runs out on his eight-year...
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