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Military action against Iran would lead to disaster: OIC
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 6: Secretary-general of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, warned on Friday that any military action against Iran would lead to a ‘disaster’ that would leave no nation untouched.... 
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Kabul suicide bomb kills 5 Afghans, US soldier
KABUL, Oct 6: A Taliban suicide car bomb killed five Afghan civilians and a US soldier in Kabul on Saturday, the third such attack in the capital in eight days in a Taliban offensive launched in Ramazan....
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Sadr, Hakim forge deal to end rivalry
BAGHDAD, Oct 6: Two of Iraq’s most influential Shia leaders and political figures, Moqtada al-Sadr and Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, agreed a deal on Saturday aimed at ending years of deadly rivalry....
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1 million evacuated as typhoon reaches China
BEIJING, Oct 6: Authorities evacuated more than a million people on Saturday as southeast China braced for the onslaught from powerful Typhoon Krosa which killed at least two in Taiwan, state media reported....
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Tourists follow in the footsteps of ancestors
NAPLES, Oct 6: Want to walk in the footsteps of the early humans?...
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UK may offer asylum to Iraqi interpreters
LONDON, Oct 6: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is set to announce that Iraqi interpreters working for the British army will be given the opportunity of asylum here, newspapers reported on Saturday....
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BJP threatens to quit Karnataka govt
BANGALORE, Oct 6: The coalition government in India’s Karnataka state, home to the global IT city of Bangalore, could fall after a key ally withdrew support in a power-sharing row on Saturday....
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Scientist near ‘artificial life’ breakthrough
WASHINGTON, Oct 6: Celebrity US scientist Craig Venter has built a synthetic chromosome using chemicals made in a laboratory, Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported on Saturday....
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US judge stays re-trial: Soldier’s refusal to fight in Iraq
SEATTLE (Washington), Oct 6: A US judge on Friday stayed prosecutors from taking a second shot at the court martial of a soldier refusing to fight in Iraq because he believes the war is illegal....
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Saudi Arabia launches fatwa site
DUBAI, Oct 6: The highest religious authority in Saudi Arabia has launched an official website for fatwas, or religious edicts....
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Putin wants to go on & voters agree
MOSCOW: On Sunday Vladimir Putin turns 55. In the eighth-floor flat of a Moscow tower block a group of students are discussing how to congratulate Russia’s president....
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Three Iraqs worse than one?
WASHINGTON: With a strong majority of US citizens favouring withdrawal from Iraq within a year and presidential elections set for 2008, Democrats and moderate Republicans continue to face an uphill struggle to force President George Bush to change course....
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Australia’s ‘grey nomads’ hit the road
SYDNEY: It’s spring in Australia and the ‘grey nomads’ are drifting south again after their annual winter migration to the tropical north....
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US lawmakers in a fix on Armenian ‘genocide’ bill
WASHINGTON: Turkish and American officials have been pressing lawmakers to reject in a vote next week a measure that would declare the World War I-era killings of Armenians a genocide....
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