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Australia ratifies Kyoto Protocol : Climate meeting opens in Bali
NUSA DUA (Indonesia), Dec 3: A major United Nations climate change conference opened on Indonesia’s Bali on Monday, buoyed by the new Australian prime minister’s ratification of the Kyoto Protocol.... 
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Israel frees 429 Palestinian prisoners
RAMALLAH, Dec 3: More than 400 Palestinian prisoners came home to a hero’s welcome on Monday after the latest Israeli release aimed at boosting president Mahmud Abbas during the revived peace process....
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Plan for new sanctions against Iran
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 3: France, Britain and the United States are considering more stringent UN sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear programme, after European foreign-policy chief Javier Solana said he...
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Tehran wants economic, security pacts with GCC
DOHA, Dec 3: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a summit of Gulf Arab heads of state on Monday that Tehran wanted to create an economic cooperation bloc and a joint security pact with them to promote peace and prosperity....
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Chavez crashes to shock defeat in referendum
CARACAS, Dec 3: President Hugo Chavez crashed to an unprecedented vote defeat on Monday as Venezuelans rejected his bid to run for re-election indefinitely and accelerate his socialist revolution in the OPEC nation....
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Gates on surprise visit to Kabul
KABUL, Dec 3: US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates arrived in Afghanistan on Monday for a surprise visit to evaluate international efforts against rising violence led by Taliban militants allied with Al Qaeda....
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German gives birth to first child at 64
MUNICH: A German woman aged 64 has given birth to a healthy baby girl, a national record and her first child after years of unfruitful attempts and false pregnancies, a report said on Sunday....
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Malaysia’sveiled warning to India
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3: Malaysia on Monday warned foreign governments not to meddle in its politics after New Delhi voiced concerns about a crackdown by police on minority ethnic Indians here....
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Iraqi minister’s adviser shot dead
BAGHDAD, Dec 3: Gunmen killed a police general in Baghdad on Monday while four Iraqi soldiers were shot dead in a separate incident in northern Iraq, officials said....
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Two sons of mafia boss murdered
ROME: Two sons of a jailed Calabrian mafia boss have been killed in southern Italy in what appeared to be a vendetta attack targeting their father, police said on Monday....
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Bhopal survivors to march to New Delhi
NEW DELHI: More than a hundred survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak in India are to march on New Delhi to press for damages and the clean-up of contaminated soil, activists said on Monday.This...
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Violence has increased in Afghanistan: UN
KABUL: Violence has grown “slightly” in Afghanistan over 2007 but there has also been an improvement in efforts to defeat the Taliban-led insurgency, the United Nations mission said on Monday....
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Hu agrees to visit Japan
BEIJING: China’s President Hu Jintao has accepted an invitation to visit Japan in early 2008, which would mark the first visit by a Chinese head of state in a decade, a Japanese spokesman said on Monday....
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West urges Moscow to probe poll fraud claims
BERLIN, Dec 3: Western nations on Monday urged Russia to probe charges of fraud during weekend elections that gave President Vladimir Putin’s party a landslide victory, with Germany blasting the country as undemocratic....
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Delhi to hold Indian Ocean military summit
NEW DELHI, Dec 3: India on Monday announced a first-ever summit of navies from 33 nations to bolster regional maritime security along the world’s busiest sea lane in the Indian Ocean.Indian...
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‘Mummified’ dinosaur was bigger, faster than T. rex
WASHINGTON: One of the most complete dinosaur mummies ever found is revealing secrets locked away for millions of years, bringing researchers as close as they will ever get to touching a live dinosaur....
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Junta refuses to include Suu Kyi in reform plans
NAYPYIDAW (Myanmar): Military-ruled Myanmar on Monday brushed off mass pro-democracy protests as “trivial” and refused to include detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in its own plodding reform plans....
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Climate change may wipe some Indonesian islands off map
JAKARTA: Many of Indonesia’s islands may be swallowed up by the sea if world leaders fail to find a way to halt rising sea levels at this week’s climate change conference on the resort island of Bali....
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Iraq TV pleads with DPs to return
BAGHDAD: In the commercial, the family is nearing the end of their journey home from exile. One child excitedly says she is surprised to see the streets filled with people....
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US allies pushed onto back foot in Lebanon
BEIRUT: Washington’s allies in Lebanon are on the back foot in their political battle with Hezbollah, giving ground in a tussle for control of the presidency to the group backed by Syria and Iran....
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Italy gets tough on immigrants
ROME: When the mayor of Cittadella, in northern Italy, issued new rules to keep the poor, homeless and unemployed out of his medieval town, the government branded the measure racist and discriminatory against destitute immigrants....
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