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Turkey urges US to take action against Kurds in Iraq
ANKARA, Oct 20: Turkey expects the United States to take urgent action against Kurdish rebels hiding in northern Iraq, its Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said in comments suggesting Ankara hopes to avoid a Turkish military operation in the region.... 
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Thousands of Kurds in rally against Turkey
ZAKHO (Iraq), Oct 20: Thousands of Kurds packed the streets of a border city in northern Iraq on Saturday to protest a threatened Turkish incursion and to warn they would defend their territory....
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Two Marines to face trial over Haditha killings
LOS ANGELES, Oct 20: Two US marines are to face court martial in connection with the killing of 24 civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha two years ago, the military said on Friday....
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Malaysian-born US soldier files lawsuit over Iraq deployment LOS ANGELES, Oct 20: A Malaysian-born US Army soldier has launched a legal bid to prevent being sent to Iraq, claiming deployment to the warzone would conflict with his religious beliefs, lawyers said on Friday....
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Pentagon identifies five errors in allowing flight across US: Nukes on B-52 bombers
WASHINGTON, Oct 20: The Pentagon has acknowledged that US Air Force officers failed on five occasions when they allowed a B-52 bomber to load nukes and fly across the country on Aug 30....
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24 drown as immigrant boat sinks off Mexico
MEXICO CITY, Oct 20: At least 24 people drowned on Friday when a boat believed to be carrying Central American immigrants sank off Mexico’s Pacific coast on a route used to head to the United States, authorities said.“On...
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US govt wants case on secret flights dismissed
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 20: The US government asked a federal court late on Friday to dismiss a lawsuit against a unit of Boeing Co that charges the firm helped fly suspects abroad to secret prisons....
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Plane crashes into apartments in Canada
VANCOUVER (Canada), Oct 20: One person died and two were injured on Friday when a light aircraft smashed into a ninth-floor suburban apartment in this western Canadian metropolis, police said....
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Warehouse of David Copperfield raided
LOS ANGELES, Oct 20: The FBI has raided magician David Copperfield’s warehouse and a theatre where he performs in Las Vegas following sexual misconduct accusations by an unidentified woman, authorities and his lawyers said on Friday....
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Talabani slams Assad over Turkey support
DUBAI, Oct 20: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani was quoted on Saturday as saying he was angry over Syria’s support for military action against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq....
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Study links indoor air quality to lung disease
NEW YORK, Oct 20: A smog-filled sky can make it hard to breathe, but air pollution in the home may also be hard on people with lung disease, researchers have found....
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Larijani’s exit may harden Iran’s stance: analysts
TEHRAN, Oct 20: Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator has resigned and the man named to replace Ali Larijani could present the West with a harder line in a long-running dispute over Tehran’s atomic ambitions....
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Displaced Iraqis face new danger
ANISHKY (Iraq): When Youssef Toma and his family fled their home in Baghdad’s perilous Dora neighbourhood and found refuge in the peaks and valleys of Kurdistan, they assumed their fear had been left behind with their furniture....
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The hazards of golfing in Afghanistan
KABUL: Mohammad Afzal Abdul says he has been jailed twice for playing golf: once in the early 1980s after the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and then again by the hardline Taliban government more than 10 years later....
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Polls seen as referendum on Poland’s ruling twins
WARSAW: Poland’s liberal opposition party is leading the race on the eve of parliamentary elections, in a contest that has boiled down to a stark choice for or against the ruling conservative Kaczynski twins....
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France working on world’s most powerful N-reactor
FLAMANVILLE (France): On a strip of France’s Channel coast cranes, trucks and cement silos are hard at work preparing the world’s most powerful nuclear reactor and showcase of French atomic savoir-faire....
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Groups push for special child protector at UN
UNITED NATIONS: In a move to improve the lives of millions of children around the world, more than 1,000 non-governmental organisations from 134 countries called on the UN General Assembly on...
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Homemade explosives described as rising threat in US
WASHINGTON: The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI agree that the homemade explosive devices that have wreaked havoc in Iraq pose a rising threat to the United States....
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