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34 killed as Al Qaeda attacks Iraqi villages
BAGHDAD, Nov 22: Thirty-four people were killed in fierce gun battles as suspected Al Qaeda fighters, some dressed as Iraqi soldiers, attacked three villages on Thursday.... 
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64 migrants drown off Yemen
SANAA, Nov 22: Sixty-four African migrants, including three children, drowned in the Gulf of Aden while trying to cross from Somalia to Yemen. The bodies were recovered from the sea by...
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Scientists warn of agrarian crisis from climate change
HYDERABAD (India), Nov 22: An agrarian crisis is brewing because of climate change that could jeopardise global food supplies and increase the risk of hunger for a billion poorest of the poor, scientists warned on Thursday....
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Pressure builds on UK PM over missing data
LONDON, Nov 22: Senior officials knew about a decision to include financial details of millions of Britons on computer discs that then went missing in the mail, British opposition politicians said on Thursday....
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De Beers sells S. African diamond mine
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 22: The world’s biggest diamond company De Beers said on Thursday it was selling its historic Cullinan Diamond Mine in South Africa, where the largest ever diamond was found....
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Jellyfish attack wipes out N. Ireland salmon farm
DUBLIN, Nov 22: Jellyfish wiped out Northern Ireland’s only salmon farm, with more than 1 million pounds’ ($2.06 million) worth of stock massacred in the attack....
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Passenger wins case against airline
PARIS, Nov 22: A Frenchman who weighs 170 kilograms (375 pounds) has won a court case against Air France after it made him buy a second seat on a flight from New Delhi to Paris, he told AFP....
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Choreographer Bejart dies
GENEVA, Nov 22: French choreographer Maurice Bejart, considered one of the great figures in contemporary dance, died on Thursday in a Swiss hospital at the age of 80, a spokeswoman for his Bejart Ballet Lausanne said....
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Translation project to bring Arabs foreign literature
Books by Stephen Hawking, Umberto Eco, Hireko Murakami and other star writers past and present have been chosen as the first works to be translated into Arabic, in a major initiative to widen access to foreign literature....
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Asean’s credibility wrecked by Myanmar crisis
SINGAPORE: Asean’s handling of the Myanmar crisis has shattered the regional bloc’s credibility and deeply embarrassed Singapore, the host of this week’s Southeast Asian summit, analysts and activists say....
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Fear overtakes India’s communist-ruled state
NANDIGRAM (India): For these Indian villagers, out of the jaws of victory came a far worse defeat. When the communist government of West Bengal state backed down on seizing their land...
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Diana could have been protected: ex-official
LONDON: A French official suggested after the car crash that killed Princess Diana that she could have received some discreet surveillance and security protection in Paris if authorities had known she was there, a former British Embassy official said on Thursday....
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‘No stone unturned’ is West’s Kosovo strategy
BRUSSELS: With the chances of Serbia and the Kosovo Albanians agreeing on the future of the breakaway Serbian province by Dec 10 close to zero, Western negotiators are determined above all to show they left “no stone unturned”....
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‘Sovereign democracy’ suits Russia’s special needs
MOSCOW: Russia’s transition to a democracy has always been a bit of a joke for some participants. Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, for example, likes to tell a tale about the...
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Survival outweighs politics in Kenya
MANDERA (Kenya): Visitors to north-east Kenya from the capital Nairobi are sometimes asked “How’s Kenya?” as if it was a foreign country. The question, offered with real curiosity not irony, shows...
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Bush emulates Clinton on ME
WASHINGTON: US President George Bush’s twilight effort to make peace between Israel and the Palestinians faces far more challenges than his predecessor Bill Clinton’s failed attempt in 2000....
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