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Benazir’s murder rattles White House race
DES MOINES (Iowa), Dec 28: The focus of the cliffhanger US presidential race zeroed in on terrorism on Friday, as White House hopefuls brandished leadership credentials and Pakistan reeled in crisis.... 
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China, Japan keen to improve ties
BEIJING, Dec 28: Japan and China, keen to improve ties plagued by wartime history, sought to resolve disputes over energy resources, territory and military build-ups at top-level talks on Friday....
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Two Israelis, Palestinian killed
JERUSALEM, Dec 28: Two young Israeli settlers and a Palestinian were killed after an apparent exchange of fire in the south of the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday, emergency services said....
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Iran gets second delivery of N-fuel
TEHRAN, Dec 28: Iran has received a second delivery of nuclear fuel from Russia for use at its Bushehr nuclear power station, the state news agency IRNA said on Friday....
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Baghdad car blast kills 14
BAGHDAD, Dec 28: A car bomb exploded in a busy market in central Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 64, a security official said....
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Zuma charged with corruption, fraud
JOHANNESBURG, Dec 28: Jacob Zuma, the new leader of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress, was on Friday served with papers to appear in court next August to face corruption charges, his lawyer said....
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Lawmakers approve abolition of Nepal monarchy
KATHMANDU, Dec 28: Nepal lawmakers formally approved on Friday an agreement to abolish the centuries-old monarchy and declare the country a republic....
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Olmert seeks to tighten grip on West Bank building
JERUSALEM, Dec 28: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ordered the Housing Ministry not to unilaterally issue any additional building permits on occupied land in the West Bank, Israeli officials said on Friday....
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BJP wins Himachal state polls
NEW DELHI: India’s main national opposition party has been elected to power in Himachal Pradesh state, wresting control from the Congress party, which heads the national government, the Election Commission said on Friday....
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Monk self-immolates in India
PATNA: A Buddhist monk from Bhutan has burnt himself to death at Buddhism’s holiest shrine in India, police said on Friday....
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Benazir supporters hold vigil in London
LONDON: Around 40 members of Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party held a vigil outside the country’s high commission in London on Friday, a photographer at the scene said....
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Poland to boost troops in Afghanistan
WARSAW: Poland will boost its forces in Afghanistan by 400 troops to a total of 1,600 after the assassination of Pakistan’s opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, Defence Minister Bogdan Klich said on Friday....
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Flesh-eating bacteria kills man in Hong Kong
HONG KONG: Hong Kong health authorities said on Friday they were investigating the death of a 55-year-old man from a rare flesh-eating bacteria....
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Lebanon vote delayed
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s presidential election has been postponed from Saturday until the end of next week, a senior political source said on Friday, prolonging a power vacuum that threatens to further destabilise the country....
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Bird flu infects BD farm
DHAKA: Nearly 2,000 chickens have been culled in a village in northern Bangladesh after the H5N1 bird flu virus has detected at a poultry farm, officials said on Friday....
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West must talk to Taliban
LONDON: Just over six years ago, in the chaotic days that followed the fall of Kabul and the disintegration of the Taliban regime, I drove out of the Afghan capital, heading south-east....
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Pragmatism to seal Russian gas price deals
MOSCOW/LONDON: Hopes are high that political pragmatism will hold together gas price deals between Russia and its former satellites, lifting the threat of supply cuts for the first new year since January 2005....
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Iraqis get a taste of Hollywood
BAGHDAD: Armed guards frisked attendees at two checkpoints, and foreign directors skipped the four-day event out of safety concerns....
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Re-match to pit Mugabe against long-time opposition leader
JOHANNESBURG: Zimbabwe’s fractured opposition party is preparing to join forces behind a single slate of candidates headed by long-time leader Morgan Tsvangirai in elections scheduled for March, according to party officials....
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Demons and avatars won’t liberate us from housework
LONDON: It always sounds exhilarating, how the internet is going to liberate us from the mundane shackles of a single existence. While the major world religions promise sequential lives (one now,...
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Cremation: A hazard to the living?
FORT COLLINS (USA): Rick Allnutt has closed all but one section of his funeral home on the north end of town....
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