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Bush approves new troop deployment in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON, Jan 15: US President George Bush on Tuesday approved the deployment of 3,200 additional American troops to Afghanistan in the spring of 2008, the Pentagon said.... 
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Turkey bombs rebel targets in Iraq
ARBIL (Iraq), Jan 15: Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq on Tuesday in the latest in a series of cross-border air strikes, Turkey’s military and northern Iraqi security forces said....
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10 killed in India train accident
KOLKATA, Jan 15: At least 10 people were killed on Tuesday when a train rammed into a vehicle at an unmanned level crossing in eastern India, a railway official said....
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3 killed in Beirut attack on US embassy car
BEIRUT, Jan 15: Three people were killed in a bomb blast that targeted a US embassy car in a northern suburb of the Lebanese capital on Tuesday....
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Rice sees ‘time of hope’ in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Jan 15: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday praised political progress in Iraq during a surprise visit to Baghdad, saying it represented a “time of hope” in the war-torn country....
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Taliban threaten more restaurant attacks
KABUL, Jan 15: The Taliban warned on Tuesday that they would increase attacks on restaurants in Kabul frequented by westerners, a day after eight people died in a brazen assault on a luxury hotel in the Afghan capital....
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Badawi rejects Bush’s Iran terror label
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 15: Malaysia’s Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Tuesday rejected US President George Bush’s description of Iran as the leading state sponsor of terrorism and said the comment would cause discord....
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UK, Russia trade threats in diplomatic row
LONDON, Jan 15: Russia and Britain traded threats and recrimination on Tuesday as a diplomatic feud over the role of the British government’s cultural arm worsened....
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Freezing temperatures take Gulf by surprise
DUBAI, Jan 15: People across the Gulf faced torrential downpours on Tuesday and may soon see a rare snowfall, in a region which traditionally holds prayers to ask for rain....
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Cloned animal foods approved
WASHINGTON, Jan 15: The US food health authority on Tuesday approved the sale of meat and milk from cloned livestock, declaring the controversial products as safe to eat as those from normal animals....
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Fresh bird flu outbreak in India
KOLKATA, Jan 15: India on Tuesday confirmed a bird flu outbreak among poultry following the death of thousands of chickens in the past week in the state of West Bengal....
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Japan working on missile shield for Tokyo
TOKYO, Jan 15: Japan on Tuesday carried out studies to deploy a missile defence shield in central Tokyo, officials said Tuesday, amid concern that the capital is at risk from North Korea....
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Pope scraps university visit after protests
ROME, Jan 15: Pope Benedict cancelled a scheduled speech at Rome’s most prestigious university after protests by students and professors over the Church’s views on science threatened to overshadow the event, scheduled for Thursday....
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US election to be the most expensive race in history
WASHINGTON: The outcome of the 2008 White House election remains up in the air, but one thing is certain — the bid to succeed President George Bush will be the most expensive race in history....
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Afghan prisoners ‘visit’ families on TV
KABUL: US-led coalition forces detained Noor Ahmad Agha’s father in a night-time raid in southern Afghanistan, then took him to a secretive prison on the faraway main US base, a place few outsiders have seen....
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Climate change raises N-power’s appeal
OSLO: Half a century after the first atomic power plant opened at Obninsk near Moscow, climate change is widening the environmental appeal of nuclear power despite a lack of final storage for the most toxic waste....
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Italy wilts under cloud of gloom
ROME: Ask most foreigners what comes to mind when they think of Italy and the answer is likely to contain words like style, art, fashion. But ask an Italian and the most likely answer will be “decline”....
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Democracy in Georgia strengthened by political crisis
TBILISI: Ex-Soviet Georgia has emerged from months of political crisis with its leader Mikheil Saakashvili humbled and its democracy strengthened by glimmers of a genuine opposition movement, analysts say....
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Good vs evil debate on Harry Potter
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican newspaper published on Monday good versus evil takes on the Harry Potter books, the fictional boy wizard star of the runaway best-selling books by J K Rowling....
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