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Stable Iraq within reach, says Gates : Car bombs kill 22
BAGHDAD, Dec 5: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday the goal of a stable and democratic Iraq is within reach, during an unannounced visit to Iraq marked by a spate of car bombs that killed 22 people.... 
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Bomb attack kills 15 in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Dec 5: At least 15 bus passengers were killed and 38 wounded on Wednesday in a roadside bomb attack in Sri Lanka, police said as the military claimed 36 more people were killed in other violence....
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US N-report ‘victory’ for Iran, says Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN, Dec 5: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday said a US intelligence report on Iran’s nuclear programme was a “great victory” and vowed never to yield to western pressure to halt the contested drive....
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China shutters shoddy food factories
BEIJING, Dec 5: China has banned nearly 8,900 unlicensed meat suppliers and demolished more than 2,800 rural food factories as part of a campaign to clamp down on shoddy food, the official Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday....
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BD detainees
DHAKA, Dec 5: Myanmar has agreed to release 49 Bangladeshi fishermen and loggers arrested in border areas between the two countries over recent months, Bangladesh officials said on Wednesday....
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Man in the Moon is four billion years old
PARIS: The plains of solidified lava that give the Moon its quirky human-like face as seen from Earth were created more than four billion years ago, according to a paper appearing on Thursday in Nature, the British science weekly....
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Russian navy presence in Atlantic
MOSCOW: Russia on Wednesday launched naval manoeuvres in the north Atlantic and the Mediterranean to boost its maritime presence and protect shipping, Russian news agencies reported, quoting Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov....
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Dolphins say it with weeds
PARIS: A man may bring flowers to impress women, but male Amazon river dolphins carry weeds to win over the opposite sex, British and Brazilian researchers say....
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Study offers hope of cutting sudden heart attack deaths
PARIS, Dec 5: Grafting gene-altered cells onto cardiac tissue damaged by a heart attack dramatically reduces the risk of sudden death in mice and could one day do the same for humans, said a study released on Wednesday....
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India’s political ‘goddess’ struggles in key state vote
IDAR (India): Billed as “the goddess of sacrifice”, she descended in a helicopter from a cloudless sky, towards an expectant crowd....
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Reporter fears for life after Gujarat massacre expose
NEW DELHI: An Indian journalist who secretly filmed right-wing Hindus boasting about the mass murder of Muslims during riots in 2002 in the western state of Gujarat says he now fears for his life....
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Mumbai summit to deliberate on investment surge
MUMBAI: India is opening up to the world, and the world wants to come to India....
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No plan to quit N-deal, says India
NEW DELHI: India said on Wednesday it is sceptical about clinching a controversial nuclear deal with the United States, but will not give up trying to convince critics and opponents as the pact is key to the country’s growth....
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Cyclone survivors’ loans frozen
DHAKA: Survivors of Bangladesh’s cyclone will not have to keep up repayments on microfinance loans after the country’s army chief asked lenders to suspend the debts, the army said on Wednesday....
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BD to seek aid for Sundarban
DHAKA: Bangladesh will seek emergency funds from the World Heritage Centre to restore the ecosystem and biodiversity of the Sundarban mangrove forest, badly mauled by last month’s killer cyclone, officials said on Wednesday....
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Amnesty joins protest over Lanka arrests
COLOMBO: Amnesty Intern-ational on Wednesday joined a growing chorus of protests over the mass arrests of thousands of ethnic Tamils in Colombo by Sri Lankan authorities....
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Asia’s biggest elephant missing
KATHMANDU: What is thought to be the world’s largest Asian elephant has been missing from a Nepali wildlife reserve for a year and may well be dead, a reserve official said on Wednesday....
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Doors still open for LTTE to return to peace talks
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka would prolong slapping a ban on the LTTE, giving the rebels a chance to return to the negotiating table, a senior minister said as the government battled heavy...
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