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49 militants killed in Sadr City: US: Iraqi officials say civilians among dead
BAGHDAD, Oct 21: US ground forces and attack helicopters killed about 49 militants during a raid on a Baghdad’s Sadr City enclave to capture a militia chief who lead a kidnapping ring, the military said.... 
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50 dead in Sudan tribal clashes
KHARTOUM, Oct 21: Around 50 people have been killed in three days of tribal clashes in the central Sudanese region of Kordofan, government officials were quoted as saying on Sunday....
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Lay down arms or leave Iraq: Talabani tells Kurds
IRBIL, Oct 21: Iraq’s president, a Kurd, ordered Kurdish guerrillas on Sunday to lay down their arms or leave Iraq after the rebels ambushed a military unit inside Turkey, killing 12...
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7 kidnapped from Nigerian oilfield
LAGOS, Oct 21: Heavily armed gunmen in speedboats kidnapped seven workers, including three foreigners, from an offshore Nigerian oilfield in a major setback to peace in the Niger Delta....
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Junta asks Suu Kyi to stop backing sanctions
YANGON, Oct 21: Myanmar’s junta on Sunday demanded detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi drop her support for sanctions on the country, one of conditions set by the regime for talks with the opposition leader....
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US gets first Indian state governor
WASHINGTON, Oct 21: The son of Punjabi immigrants won an election in Louisiana to become the first Indian-American US state governor, media reports said on Sunday....
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Iran wants Turky and Iraq to hold talks
TEHRAN, Oct 21: Iran on Sunday refused to explicitly back Turkey’s plan for an incursion against Kurdish militant bases in northern Iraq, saying that dialogue between Ankara and Baghdad was the best solution....
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Weak need landmines to fight strong foe: Qadhafi
TRIPOLI, Oct 21: Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi has defended the use of landmines by weak countries countering aggression by stronger adversaries, and said the Ottawa treaty banning anti-personnel mines should be amended or scrapped....
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Saudi firm to manufacture insulin
RIYADH, Oct 21: A Saudi company is planning to manufacture insulin with the aim of breaking the virtual monopoly of the Danish insulin maker, Novo Nordisk....
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Malaysia’s first astronaut returns to earth
MOSCOW, Oct 21: Malaysia’s first astronaut landed safely in Kazakhstan on Sunday with two Russian cosmonauts after spending 11 days in space, a Reuters witness at Moscow’s mission control reported....
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Tehran hangs five for drug trafficking
TEHRAN, Oct 21: Five people have been hanged in public for drug trafficking offences in the eastern Iranian city of Birjand, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported on Sunday....
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Olmert sees no breakthrough at Mideast conference
BEN-GURION AIRPORT, Oct 21: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday a US conference on Palestinian statehood would not yield a peace breakthrough as he sought to head off a revolt by rightist coalition partners....
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US needs to negotiate instead of talking war: analysts
WASHINGTON: The United States must stop “posturing” and start negotiating if it wants to avert President George Bush’s “World War III” scenario of a nuclear-armed Iran, Middle East experts say....
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Ahmadinejad tightens grip after Larijani’s resignation
TEHRAN: Five months ahead of crucial elections, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has tightened his grip on Iranian politics after the resignation of his top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, analysts say....
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BlackBerry creator wants device in households
LONDON: As she touched down in the heat and dust of Karachi last week, Benazir Bhutto could be seen smiling and waving — and checking her BlackBerry....
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Down but not out, Bush beats Democrats in Congress
WASHINGTON: By any measure, President George Bush had a good week in Congress....
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Criticism does not stick with teflon president
MANILA: Within minutes of Friday’s deadly bomb blast in a Manila shopping mall the text messages started circulating in this SMS-obsessed Southeast Asian nation....
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