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500,000 evacuated, 13,000 homes destroyed : California wildfires rage for third day
LOS ANGELES, Oct 23: More than 500,000 people have been evacuated and around 1,000 homes destroyed as ferocious wildfires raged unchecked for a third day across California on Tuesday.... 
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No retreat from N-plan: Iran : Nuclear talks begin in Rome
ROME, Oct 23: Iran will not retreat “one iota” from its nuclear programme, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, as his new chief negotiator met Western diplomats for the first time....
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US air strikes kill 10 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Oct 23: At least 10 people were killed and another 10 wounded early on Tuesday when US helicopters were called in to support ground troops near executed dictator Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit, police said....
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Kurd crisis: Turkey pushes for diplomatic end
BAGHDAD, Oct 23: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Tuesday ordered the closure of offices run by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), saying Iraq would no longer allow the ‘terrorist’ group to operate on its soil....
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US shuttle blasts off on key space station mission
CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida), Oct 23: US space shuttle Discovery blasted off successfully on Tuesday on an ambitious, complex mission to the International Space Station, key to future manned flights to Mars....
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EU’s ‘blue card’ scheme to attract skilled immigrants
BRUSSELS, Oct 23: The European Commission unveiled on Tuesday its new “blue card” labour scheme aimed at attracting highly qualified immigrants to the European Union to fill millions of jobs....
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Brown refuses to oblige Olmert over Iran
LONDON, Oct 23: It was seemingly a disappointed Israeli prime minister who returned home from the UK as he failed to get the British prime minister to promise more than additional...
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Myanmar arresting protesters’ relatives
BRUSSELS, Oct 23: The Myanmar junta is taking relatives of protesters hostage if it cannot find the people it wants to arrest, rights groups said on Tuesday after returning from a trip to the region....
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Indian PM’s fund missing millions of dollars: report
NEW DELHI, Oct 23: More than three million dollars donated to the Indian prime minister’s relief fund for victims of disasters such as the Asian tsunami and Kashmir earthquake are missing, reports said on Tuesday....
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Sonia to visit China
NEW DELHI, Oct 23: India’s ruling Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi will visit China for five days as the two Asian giants seek to improve ties, officials said on Tuesday....
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Turkish move sows fear in Kurdish area
DAHUK (Iraq): “Welcome to Dream City” says the sign at a funfair in Dahuk, a city in Iraqi Kurdistan....
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History and jewels for Queen’s coach
SYDNEY: As birthday gifts go, a horse-drawn carriage covered in gold leaf, adorned with diamonds and sapphires and topped with a crown made of timber from Lord Nelson’s flagship is hard to beat....
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Afghan women shed burqa to join forces
KANDAHAR: Her dark hair swept up in a traditional headscarf secured under a standard police cap, Shaqofa offers a stark contrast to the many Afghan women who don the restrictive, full-length...
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Abused maids in Lebanon seek refuge
BEIRUT: Locked up and cut off from her family for nine years, without even a penny for the endless scrubbing and washing up, Siriani knew it was time to flee or, as she says, die....
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Is US sick of conservatism or just tired of Bush? WASHINGTON: Like criminal trials or major football matches or fights within marriages, presidential election contests in America are about both stated and unstated matters. The stated matters are the ones the...
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Sharp rise in carbon dioxide emission
WASHINGTON: Just days after the Nobel prize was awarded for global warming work, an alarming new study finds that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is increasing faster than expected....
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