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33 militants killed in Afghanistan clashes : Blast kills 2 Nato troops
KABUL, Nov 17: A series of clashes in southern Afghanistan left 33 suspected Taliban militants dead, while a roadside bomb killed two Nato soldiers and wounded three others, officials said on Saturday.... 
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Ahmadinejad says Iran ready to act if attacked
MANAMA, Nov 17: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday Iran was ready to respond if attacked, but played down the prospect of war with the United States....
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Seven killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Nov 17: US troops killed seven suspects and detained 10 others on Saturday in raids across central and northern Iraq, the military said....
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Hollywood writers, studios agree to resume talks
LOS ANGELES, Nov 17: After a nearly two-week walkout, Hollywood scriptwriters and studio owners have agreed to begin new talks on Nov 26, the Writers Guild of America said late on Friday....
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Thousands of Palestinians face hardship: UN report : Israel separation barrier
JERUSALEM, Nov 17: Only 18 per cent of some 30,000 West Bank farmers who used to work the lands cut off by Israel’s separation barrier now have Israeli permits to reach...
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Kosovo casts ballots in build-up to independence
PRISTINA (Serbia): A tense Kosovo voted on Saturday to elect a government that would lead the troubled province to independence as demanded by majority Albanians but fiercely resisted by Serbs....
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UN calls for more steps to control warming
VALENCIA (Spain), Nov 17: Governments must do more to fight global warming, spurred by a new UN scientific report and damage to nature that is already as frightening as science fiction, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Saturday....
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UN seeks moratorium on death penalty
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 17: A committee of the United Nations General Assembly voted on Friday to back a resolution calling for a global moratorium on executions to abolishing the death penalty....
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Iran ban on Marquez novel spurs interest
TEHRAN, Nov 17: An Iranian government decision to forbid the second printing of a Persian translation of Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez has spurred interest in the book, booksellers said on Saturday....
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British expert drops cloning with embryos
LONDON, Nov 17: A British scientist who led researchers who created Dolly the Sheep is to abandon cloning using embryos for a rival method which makes stem cells without them, the Daily Telegraph reported on Saturday....
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Russian deputy minister arrested
MOSCOW, Nov 17: A Russian deputy finance minister responsible for international financial relations was arrested for attempting to defraud the state budget, news agencies reported on Saturday....
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US Army captain charged with taking Iraqi artifact
LOS ANGELES, Nov 17: A US Army captain was charged on Friday with taking over $30,000 in bribes from contractors in Iraq and removing a piece of ancient pottery from an Iraqi archaeological site....
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Quake rattles California
SANTA BARBARA, Nov 17: A magnitude-3.4 earthquake has shaken part of California’s central coast, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage....
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Kurds look upon Iraq as sad memory
ARBIL (Iraq): In Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region the official line is clear: there is no question of declaring independence. But in the regional capital Arbil, Baghdad seems more distant each passing day....
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Bush likely to leave office with mixed baggage on Iraq
WASHINGTON: With an intensifying White House race drawing attention to his legacy, President George Bush could leave office without the baggage of complete failure in Iraq thanks to new US military gains, some analysts say....
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London mosque row highlights Muslims’ struggle for status
LONDON: A bitter row has blown up in east London over a secretive Muslim organisation’s plans to build Europe’s largest mosque a stone’s throw from the city’s 2012 Olympic zone....
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Canadian court refuses to hear US deserters’ plea
SAN FRANCISCO: Two US Army deserters who fled to Canada and sought refugee status on grounds of their opposition to the war in Iraq have lost their bids to have the Supreme Court of Canada hear their cases....
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Queen’s wedding remembered 60 years on
LONDON: After 60 years of marriage, survivors generally have only memories and family photographs of their wedding day. But when you are the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, whose anniversary...
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Nigeria’s twin town Baffles experts
IGBO-ORA (Nigeria): Igbo-Ora, a sleepy farming community in southwest Nigeria, welcomes visitors with a sign proclaiming ‘The Land of Twins’....
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