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Saudi minister holds talks with Putin : Russia eyes arms deal
MOSCOW, Nov 23: Saudi Arabia’s Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz held talks here on Friday with President Vladimir Putin expected to pave the way for the first purchase of Russian weapons by the kingdom....
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Baghdad pet market blast claims 13 lives
BAGHDAD, Nov 23: A bomb hidden in a box of birds killed 13 people and wounded 57 at a popular pet market in central Baghdad on Friday, police and witnesses said,...
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Plight of BD cyclone victims worsens
DHAKA, Nov 23: The plight of survivors was causing increasing concern as relief workers struggled on Friday to ferry in aid more than a week after Bangladesh’s killer cyclone Sidr struck....
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Ex-military men launch angry attack on Brown
LONDON, Nov 23: Five former heads of the British armed forces fiercely criticised Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s treatment of the military, with one suggesting he treated them “with contempt” on Friday....
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IAEA urges Iran to freeze enrichment
VIENNA, Nov 23: The UN atomic watchdog wrapped up a two-day debate on Iran’s disputed atomic drive here on Friday, urging Tehran to suspend uranium enrichment and open up its nuclear programme to UN inspections....
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Sri Lanka seeks expulsion of Unicef staff
COLOMBO, Nov 23: The Sri Lankan government on Friday called for the expulsion of staff of the United Nations children’s fund, accusing them of overstepping their legitimate functions, the foreign ministry said....
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Russia rejects US offers on defence
MOSCOW: Russia is not satisfied with written US offers aimed at allaying its concerns over planned missile defences in eastern Europe, news agencies quoted a foreign ministry source as saying on Friday....
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Online video games meet social networking tools
DALLAS: Jo Ann Hicks doesn’t identify with gamers, but she spends hours online every day playing ‘Kaneva’....
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BD writer Taslima on the run
NEW DELH: Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen has been on the run from extremists threatening to kill her ever since she started writing books that incensed religious hardliners....
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Ukraine marks 75 years of ‘genocide’
KRASYLIVKA (Ukraine): After authorities broke into Yakiv Atamanenko’s home in autumn of 1932 and confiscated the family’s food, his mother and two brothers died of starvation and their bloated bodies were...
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Lebanon crisis deepens
BEIRUT: Tanks rolled onto the streets of Beirut on Friday amid fears of unrest as a parliament session to elect a new president by a midnight deadline was postponed for a week, with political rivals deadlocked....
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Exhibit tells stories of Somali exile
OHIO: A photographic exhibit captures one of the largest mass movements of people in recent history in images ranging from women carrying sacks of grain in Africa to men pushing shopping carts in California....
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