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Hamas offers Egypt talks on link: Restoration of Gaza border
GAZA, Jan 26: Hamas offered on Saturday to restore the Gaza Strip’s ruptured border with Egypt through direct diplomacy with Cairo, challenging a plan by rival Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to assume control.... 
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UN fears irreversible violence in Kenya
DAVOS, Jan 26: Kenya is in danger of falling into an irreversible spiral of violence while politicians attempt to settle their differences, the top UN aid official said on Saturday....
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Turkish major among five charged with anti-govt plot
ANKARA, Jan 26: Turkish authorities have charged five ultra-nationalists, including a retired army major, with involvement in plans for a violent uprising against the government, Turkish media said on Saturday....
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Iran to face travel bans, more asset freezes
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 26: Proposed new UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme call for mandatory travel bans and asset freezes for specific Iranian officials and vigilance on all banks in Iran, according to a draft text....
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Karzai blocks UN envoy’s appointment
LONDON, Jan 26: President Hamid Karzai has blocked the appointment of a senior British politician as United Nations envoy to his country, the Times newspaper reported on Saturday....
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Middle East peace deal possible this year: Blair
DAVOS, Jan 26: Middle East peace envoy Tony Blair said he believed both Israelis and Palestinians wanted peace and a deal could be brokered by the end of this year....
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Communist leader urges Kremlin to ensure fair election
MOSCOW, Jan 26: Russia’s Communist Party leader on Saturday called on the Kremlin to ensure a fair election and said President Vladimir Putin’s chosen candidate was dominating air time on state television....
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Sweden blocks EU move over divorce law
BRDO (Slovenia), Jan 26: Sweden blocked EU plans on Saturday to agree which country should have jurisdiction when a couple from different nationalities seek to divorce within the 27-nation bloc, top EU officials said....
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US aid worker kidnapped
KANDAHAR, Jan 26: Gunmen abducted a 49-year-old US woman on Saturday who was working for an aid group in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar, the provincial governor said....
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Cancer drug may help in osteoporosis treatment
WASHINGTON, Jan 26: A drug used to treat bone marrow cancer may also help treat osteoporosis by stimulating stem cells, US researchers reported on Friday....
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Ex-White House official dies
WASHINGTON, Jan 26: Richard Darman, a former White House budget director who helped convince former President George H.W. Bush to renege on his no new taxes pledge, has died....
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Heavy snowfall in China threatens food shortage: Tens of thousands stranded
SHANGHAI, Jan 26: Heavy snow and rain closed airports, highways and train lines across central and eastern China on Saturday, stranding tens of thousands of travellers and threatening to block food supplies....
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Trader blamed for SocGen loss taken into custody
PARIS, Jan 26: French police questioned a junior trader on Saturday blamed for causing a $7 billion loss at bank Societe Generale after keeping his superiors in the dark for months about thousands of illicit deals....
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Abbas to press Olmert to end Gaza blockade
RAMALLAH, Jan 26: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will ask Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to end a blockade on Gaza and accept his offer to control Gaza’s border crossings, Palestinian officials said on Saturday....
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‘Cell’ planned attacks in Europe: paper
MADRID, Jan 26: Islamist extremists were planning attacks across Europe, especially against public transport, before their arrests in Barcelona last weekend, a Spanish paper reported on Saturday, citing a would-be attacker’s testimony....
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Discontent grows in Iraq over new flag
BAGHDAD, Jan 26: The Iraqi parliament’s move to adopt a new, temporary national flag has provoked an outcry, with one major province refusing to fly it and ordinary Iraqis attaching the old flag to their cars in a silent protest....
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Police fire at rally in Russian region
NAZRAN (Russia), Jan 26: Security forces fired in the air and beat stone-throwing protestors on Saturday to disperse a banned anti-government rally in Russia’s largely Muslim province of Ingushetia....
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Turkey terms EU ‘club of Christians’
DAVOS, Jan 26: Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan warned the European Union against becoming a “club of Christians” as he pushed on Saturday for Ankara’s membership in the bloc....
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Mouse head served on plate
HELSINKI, Jan 26: A hospital patient in Finland found a mouse head among the steamed vegetables on his plate....
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Gaza-Egypt chaos throws spotlight on Hamas strategy
JERICHO (West Bank): The chaotic scenes on the Gaza-Egypt border are forcing Israel, Egypt and the international community to rethink a two-year policy of trying to weaken Gaza’s Hamas rulers by keeping the territory sealed....
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Kenyan refugees claim violence was planned before election
MULANDA (Uganda): Irene Njoki suspected things might go wrong long before Kenya’s election results were announced, unleashing a wave of violence that has convulsed the country and shocked the world....
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Thieves’ choice: wheat, wires and almonds
WASHINGTON: A wave of crime is sweeping rural America, with organised gangs and petty thieves heisting commodities ranging from wheat to almonds, copper wires to hardwood trees....
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Law official finds Orwell work inspiring
WASHINGTON: The top US law enforcement official said on Friday he keeps in his office a portrait of George Orwell, whose book “1984” envisioned a futuristic technology security state overseen by a prying “Big Brother.”...
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Clinton admits he got carried away
SPARTANBURG (US): The resurgence of the old Bill Clinton, flushing with anger and wagging his finger as he fights for his wife’s presidential bid, has cast a shadow over her campaign and could mar his new image as a global statesman....
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Lebanon vows to fight ‘empire of terror’
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s senior security chief on Saturday vowed to fight what he called “the empire of terror” as angry mourners vowed revenge at the funeral of a top intelligence officer killed in a car bombing....
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Rapid change in mobile phone technology predicted
DAVOS (Switzerland): At a time of dizzying uncertainty and constant innovation, one prediction seems certain: the mobile phone business is big and getting even bigger....
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