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Turkey pounds rebels, warns US over ties
SIRNAK (Turkey), Oct 30: The Turkish army pounded Kurdish rebels near the Iraqi border Tuesday as Ankara warned that ties with Washington would suffer as long as the separatists enjoyed sanctuary in northern Iraq....
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16 Europeans charged over child ‘abductions’
ABECHE (Chad), Oct 30: Sixteen Europeans charged over the alleged abduction of 103 children sat in a dusty cell in eastern Chad on Tuesday, as a row escalated in France over the failure to prevent the operation....
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UAE to deport 4,000 workers
DUBAI, Oct 30: Four thousand Asian labourers in Dubai are reportedly facing expulsion after they staged illegal strikes at the weekend over poor wages and working conditions in the booming Gulf city state.Senior...
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Nuclear deal delayed, not dead: Singh
NEW DELHI, Oct 30: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Tuesday his country’s controversial nuclear deal with the United States had been delayed but was not dead....
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Iraq to revoke security firms’ immunity
BAGHDAD, Oct 30: The Iraqi cabinet on Tuesday backed a law that revokes the immunity granted to private security firms operating in the country, after a deadly shooting involving a US contractor....
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Eight get life for Gujarat massacre
NEW DELHI: An Indian court on Tuesday sentenced eight people to life in jail for their role in the massacre of Muslims during rioting in western Gujarat state five years ago, media reports said....
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US spends $43.5bn on intelligence: official
WASHINGTON: The US intelligence budget for fiscal 2007 was $43.5 billion, national intelligence chief Mike McConnell disclosed on Tuesday, making public a figure that has been kept secret for nearly a decade....
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Toddler survives plane crash
OTTAWA: A three-year-old girl survived an airplane crash in western Canada’s snow-capped Rocky Mountains, hanging upside down in a safety seat for four hours before being rescued, local media said on Tuesday....
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Violence against London shopkeepers
LONDON, Oct 30: Violence, abuse and threats against British shopkeepers have soared with more than half a million incidents recorded over the past year, a report said on Tuesday....
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Drug lord Khun Sa dies
BANGKOK: Former drug lord Khun Sa, one of the world’s most wanted men on whom the United States had put a two million-dollar bounty, died at the weekend in Myanmar, a Thai narcotics official said today on Tuesday....
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Picture-perfect evidence
NEW YORK, Oct 30: Police investigating the theft of a digital camera from a store in the US state of Connecticut were surprised to find the thief had left a picture of himself on a display model....
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Ex-BD minister jailed
DHAKA, Oct 30: A Bangladesh court sentenced former state minister for home affairs Lutfuzzaman Babar to 17 years in jail on Tuesday for illegal possession of firearms.—Reuters...
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Ford’s intuitions, secrets surface after his death WASHINGTON: Dead men do tell tales: The late President Gerald Ford believed a successor, Bill Clinton, had a sex addiction and felt Hillary Clinton had “unlimited ambition” but the country was not ready for a woman president....
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Anti-Clinton video scores thousands of hits
WASHINGTON: A stinging 13-minute video by a bitter foe of presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton and her husband, Bill, the former president, is finding a wide Internet audience....
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China to play a major role in Australian poll
SYDNEY: Australia under Prime Minister John Howard has been an unwavering ally of the United States, but if Labour leader Kevin Rudd wins next month’s elections there will be a Sinophile in the top job....
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Arroyo’s recent actions lead to more scrutiny
MANILA: As recently as a week ago, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was beset by mounting corruption scandals, cracks in the ruling coalition and calls for her impeachment....
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Putin honours Stalin victims 70 years later
BUTOVO (Russia): Russian President Vladimir Putin paid his respects on Tuesday to millions of people killed under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and called for the country to unite to prevent a repeat of its tragic past....
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Marx’s skin lesions may have influenced writings
LONDON: Karl Marx, who complained of excruciating boils, actually suffered from a chronic skin disease with known psychological effects that may well have influenced his writings, a British expert said on Tuesday....
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