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Key N-target achieved, says Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN, Nov 7: Iran has reached a key target of 3,000 centrifuges for uranium enrichment, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday, vowing to ignore UN resolutions calling for a halt to Tehran’s sensitive nuclear work.... 
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Russia suspends Cold War arms treaty
MOSCOW, Nov 7: Russia’s parliament voted on Wednesday to suspend compliance with a key Cold War treaty limiting conventional forces in Europe as Moscow signalled it was weighing new force deployments on its western flank....
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Terror threat looms large in region: Singh
NEW DELHI, Nov 7: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Wednesday terrorism could trigger disasters across borders. Inaugurating the Second Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction here, Manmohan Singh...
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West Bank Jewish settlements expand
JERUSALEM, Nov 7: The construction of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank has accelerated even as Israel and the Palestinians work to re-launch the Middle East peace process, a settler watchdog said on Wednesday....
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Finnish school shooting claims eight lives
HELSINKI (Finland), Nov 7: An 18-year-old student at a school in Finland went on the rampage on Wednesday, shooting dead seven classmates and the headmistress and wounding a dozen others before turning his gun on himself....
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283 schools closed in Florida after shooting
MIAMI, Nov 7: Authorities on Wednesday locked down 283 schools in Florida, as police conducted a massive manhunt for a convict who escaped after he shot and killed a police official....
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Bomb suspects escaped to Pakistan, say Maldives police
COLOMBO, Nov 7: Ten men whom police suspect of involvement in a bombing that wounded 12 foreign tourists in the Maldives fled to Pakistan before officers could arrest them, police alleged on Wednesday....
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Election campaign kicks off in Thailand
BANGKOK, Nov 7: Thailand’s political parties rushed to register candidates on Wednesday as campaigning kicked off for a Dec 23 election that the junta insists will restore democracy after a coup last year....
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US can count on France, says Sarkozy
WASHINGTON, Nov 7: French President Nicolas Sarkozy told a joint session of the US Congress on Wednesday that his country would stand by Washington in the fight against nuclear proliferation in Iran and terrorism in Afghanistan....
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Mice that explain the science of smell
PARIS, Nov 7: Japanese scientists have created genetically-modified mice that, shorn of their ability to sense dangerous smells, will even snuggle up to a kitten, according to a study released on Wednesday by the journal Nature....
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UK minister quits to become race-car driver
LONDON, Nov 7: A British government minister has stepped down to follow his dream of becoming a race-car driver. Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s office said on Wednesday that defence procurement minister...
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Russia marks 1917 revolution anniversary
MOSCOW, Nov 7: Russia’s ruling party and its Communist rivals on Wednesday marked the 90th anniversary of the October 1917 Revolution, sparring over the uprising’s legacy weeks before key elections....
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Sales of drugs over Internet on the rise
MARRAKECH, (Morocco), Nov 7: Drug traffickers are increasingly using the Internet to sell illegal narcotics ranging from ecstasy to heroin to consumers around the world, a senior Interpol official said on Wednesday....
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Lethal development in Afghanistan
LONDON: Warnings have been coming for months, publicly from independent commentators, privately by concerned officials and military commanders: the insurgent and terrorist threat is growing and spreading north to what has...
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Colombo unveils hefty defence budget
COLOMBO: The president of Sri Lanka said on Wednesday there would be peace on the troubled island only after more fighting to crush separatist rebels as he unveiled the nation’s biggest-ever war budget....
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Indian girl’s extra limbs removed
BANGALORE: Indian surgeons said on Wednesday they had successfully removed the extra limbs from a two-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs, in a gruelling operation that lasted more than a day....
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Man detained in Dhaka over stolen Nobel medal
DHAKA: Bangladesh security forces said on Wednesday they have detained an antique shop owner in connection with a stolen Nobel medal for literature awarded in 1913 to Indian poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tagore....
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Three-day mourning for suicide victims
BAGHLAN (Afghanistan): Afghans began three days of mourning on Wednesday for 52 people, many of them children, killed in the country’s worst suicide attack. The blast, in the relatively peaceful north,...
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Myanmar junta rejects UN’s talks offer
BANGKOK: Myanmar’s rejection of three-way talks with a UN special envoy and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi may reflect the junta’s disdain for anything but its own widely derided ‘democracy roadmap’, analysts and diplomats said....
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Quake sparks panic in BD
CHITTAGONG: An earthquake with a magnitude of at least 5.2 jolted Bangladesh’s main port city Chittagong on Wednesday, causing panic and some damage but no casualties, officials and witnesses said....
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