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Turkey considering strike on Kurd bases in Iraq ANKARA, Oct 10: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan confirmed on Tuesday his government was seeking authorisation for a military incursion into northern Iraq to fight Kurdish rebels using the region as a base.... 
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India rules out Eid ceasefire
NEW DELHI, Oct 10: Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony is said to have ruled out an Eid ceasefire in the army operations against resistance groups in Jammu and Kashmir but his comments on Wednesday remained open to interpretation....
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Hostages freed in exchange for Taliban prisoners
GHAZNI, Oct 10: A German engineer and four Afghans kidnapped in southern Afghanistan in mid-July were freed on Wednesday in exchange for five Taliban prisoners, an official and a Taliban commander said....
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Dubai unveils $11bn canal plan
DUBAI, Oct 10: Cash-rich Dubai on Wednesday unveiled the latest in a series of grandiose projects, a 75-kilometre canal which will extend the business and leisure hub into the heart of the emirate’s desert....
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Russian rocket launches first Malaysian into space
BAIKONUR (Kazakhstan), Oct 10: A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Malaysia’s first astronaut, a US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut blasted off to rendezvous with the International Space Station on Wednesday....
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Empire State Building to go green for Eid
NEW YORK, Oct 10: New York’s iconic Empire State Building is to be lit up green from Friday to mark Eidul Fitr, officials said on Wednesday....
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Govt urged to limit foreign workers: Security risk at Malaysia’s main airport
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 10: A workers’ union on Wednesday urged the government to cut the high number of foreign workers at Malaysia’s main airport, saying they posed a security risk and deprived locals of jobs....
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Sofia Loren to star in musical comedy
ROME, Oct 10: Italian actress Sofia Loren has agreed to play in a musical comedy inspired by the 1963 Fellini classic “8-1/2,” she said in an interview published on Wednesday....
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German wins Nobel prize for work in surface chemistry
STOCKHOLM, Oct 10: Gerhard Ertl of Germany won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday, his 71st birthday, for work that has become invaluable to the modern chemical industry and helped the fight to fix the ozone hole....
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India’s communists renew threats over nuclear deal
NEW DELHI: In the new capitalist India, old-line communists are playing the spoiler, threatening to bring down the government over a nuclear energy deal with the US....
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Gold not a popular choice for young urbanites
NEW DELHI: For Mona Bhardwaj, 42, gold jewelry is more than mere adornment. It is a family heirloom, a prudent investment and an auspicious metal at religious rituals....
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Prisoners to protest execution order
KABUL: Dozens of inmates at Afghanistan’s main prison in Kabul have been on a hunger strike for three days to protest the executions at the weekend of 15 convicts, the head of prisons said on Wednesday....
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Indian bureaucracy reluctant to shed old ways
NEW DELHI/BANGALORE: When Ashok Kheny decided in 1995, after 15 years in the United States, to return to India and take up a $700 million project to build a road and new townships, he dreamed of creating something unique....
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Afghan air force struggles to get off the ground KABUL: The faded green Soviet-era Mi-17 helicopter hovered 10 meters (yards) off the ground while veteran pilot Amin Jan tested the controls. Then he zoomed upward and banked left, filling the side window with a view of Kabul’s mud-brick homes below....
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Stars to stage concert on Mount Everest
KATHMANDU: American and British rock and folk singers will stage a concert on Mount Everest for a cancer charity and a bid to earn a world record for the highest concert ever, organisers said on Wednesday....
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Bangladeshis battle to re-start lives after floods KURIGRAM (Bangladesh): Bangladeshis have returned home after one of the worst floods in recent years left a trail of destruction across two-thirds of the low-lying country, but few have time to grieve for the loss of loved ones....
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Nepal’s Maoists threaten to bring down government
KATHMANDU: The chief of Nepal’s former Maoist rebels threatened that they could bring down the interim government if it does not agree to their demands, including an immediate end to the monarchy, newspapers reported on Wednesday....
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