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Annapolis decisions do not bind Israel: Olmert
JERUSALEM, Dec 2: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday that Israel is not bound by a Dec 2008 target for a peace agreement set at last week’s US-hosted Mideast summit... 
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Hamas stops census in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Dec 2: Gaza’s Hamas rulers on Sunday ordered census workers to halt the first Palestinian population count in a decade, derailing a rare joint endeavour with the rival Fatah movement....
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Expanding tropical belt could increase aridity: study
WASHINGTON, Dec 2: Earth’s tropical belt seems to have expanded a couple of hundred kilometres over the past quarter century, which could mean more arid weather for some already dry subtropical regions, new climate research shows....
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Turkey says it has right to intervene in N. Iraq
ANKARA, Dec 2: Turkish President Abdullah Gul reaffirmed on Sunday Turkey’s readiness and right to intervene in northern Iraq a day after the Turkish army said it had carried out an operation there against Kurdish rebels....
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Experts find way to block allergy
HONG KONG, Dec 2: Scientists in Japan may have found a way to stop reactions such as wheezing, itching and swelling after identifying a key molecule which is crucial for the body to mount an allergic response....
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Observers report ‘fraud’ in Russian polls
MOSCOW, Dec 2: Reports of ballot-stuffing, vote-buying and intimidation in Sunday’s Russian parliamentary election have poured in from dozens of regions, independent election monitors said....
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Ex-official wins symbolic HK election
HONG KONG, Dec 2: Anson Chan, the former head of Hong Kong’s civil service, has won a hotly contested and highly symbolic by-election for a seat in the city’s legislature, in...
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Badawi slams Indians over charges of bias
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 2: Malaysia’s Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has denounced ethnic Indian activists’ claims they are mistreated, and accused them of stirring up racial conflict, state media reported....
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‘Secret’ donor hits out in British party funding row
LONDON: The man at the centre of Britain’s political donations storm hit out on Sunday as Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s beleaguered administration tried to shift the debate onto party funding....
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800,000 suffering years after Bhopal tragedy
BHOPAL: Hundreds of thousands of babies have been born in the years since a deadly gas billowed over Bhopal in 1984, but the survivors of that night say their children have been forever stunted by the tragedy....
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US plans to extend asylum seekers’ detention period
WASHINGTON: The number of asylum seekers in the US could increase and such refugees could be detained longer under a new Homeland Security Department policy for people wanting safe harbour in the US....
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India pledges to do its bit to save climate
NEW DELHI: India is likely to stick by its pledge to keep its carbon emissions per person lower than those of the rich world at next week’s climate change talks in Indonesia, according to policy advisers....
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Lanka peace monitors at a loss
COLOMBO: Nordic peace monitors have warned Sri Lanka is sliding back to its days of all-out warfare, with the past week seeing the government and Tamil rebels trading bombs and bullets that left scores dead....
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Iran defiant after N-talks ‘disaster’
TEHRAN: Iran on Sunday remained defiant in the standoff over its nuclear programme after the latest talks with the European Union ended in failure and world powers agreed to step up moves for further sanctions....
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Stretch of Yangtze river caves in
BEIJING: A 100-metre stretch of the Yangtze river’s bank collapsed in eastern China on Saturday, sending some 10 warehouses and several cranes into the river. The landslide happened near the city...
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Talabani mourns death of actor who lampooned him
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s President Jalal Talabani is lamenting the death of popular Iraqi actor Rasim al-Jumaili who lampooned him wickedly in a television series, and offered to pay the funeral expenses, a statement said....
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Castro to contest election
SANTIAGO (Cuba): Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro was nominated on Sunday for a seat in the National Assembly, a sign he may not be planning to step down as head of state despite struggling to recover from a long illness....
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