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Medvedev urges Putin to lead govt after polls
MOSCOW, Dec 11: A solid blueprint for Russia’s future power structure emerged on Tuesday after months of uncertainty as Dmitry Medvedev, President Vladimir Putin’s handpicked successor, said Putin should become head of government.... 
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Israeli troops push into Gaza; six Palestinians killed
GAZA CITY, Dec 11: Six Palestinian were killed in Israel’s largest operation for months against the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the eve of the first Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations since a US summit....
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CIA chief faces grilling amid torture claims
WASHINGTON, Dec 11: The CIA chief was to be grilled by US lawmakers Tuesday over the destruction of videos showing the interrogation of suspected extremists, amid charges the agency covered up possible torture....
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US report positive, says Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN, Dec 11: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadi-nejad said on Tuesday that the publication of a US intelligence report saying that Iran had halted a nuclear weapons programme in 2003 was “positive”,...
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BJP ‘poster boy’ eyeing another CM term
AHMEDABAD, Dec 11: India’s Gujarat state voted on Tuesday to decide if a Hindu hardliner accused of turning a blind eye to bloody anti-Muslim riots five years ago will stay in power....
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Deadly snow, ice storms hit US
OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec 11: A deadly winter storm sweeping the US midwest was on Tuesday wreaking havoc with the presidential campaign, after reportedly killing some 23 people and cutting power to some 800,000 homes....
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Russia treaty freeze a warning to Nato
MOSCOW: Russia will not start a new arms race when it freezes compliance with a Cold War arms treaty on Wednesday but it does want to send a clear message it is not happy about Nato’s eastward expansion....
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Australian exhibition honours Muslim pioneers
SYDNEY: An exhibition opening in Australia on Wednesday pays tribute to the often ignored contribution Muslim camel drivers made to opening up the dry centre of the vast country in the 19th century....
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US orchestra may end North Korea’s isolation
WASHINGTON: China had its pingpong players, the Soviet Union its ballet dancers, Iran its soccer players. Now the New York Philharmonic is making a musical overture to North Korea....
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Binoculars, jewels, Mozart collection among Bush gifts
WASHINGTON: In 2006, gift-minded world leaders made sure that US President George Bush could listen to all of Mozart while smoking a cigar and reflecting on Gandhi’s “Seven Social Sins,” according to a US government list....
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Human evolution speeding up
CHICAGO: The world may feel more and more like a global village, but its residents are increasingly genetically diverse thanks to the rapidly accelerating pace of human evolution, a study said on Monday....
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South Korea spill may take years to recover: experts
TAEAN (South Korea): Envi-ronmentalists warned on Tuesday that South Korea’s southwest coast could take years to recover from the country’s worst oil spill, as nearly 20,000 people worked to halt the spread of the sludge....
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A cup of tea among the dead
AHMEDABAD: In India, death is a part of life — and, at one restaurant in western India, a part of lunch....
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The lost world of Hyderabad Deccan
LONDON: Over the following two decades he married four more times. One of his wives, a secretary named Helen Simmons, died of an Aids-related illness in 1989, which led to intimate details of the marriage being splashed across Australian tabloids....
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