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EU slaps $1.4bn fine on Microsoft
BRUSSELS, Feb 27: EU competition regulators dealt a new blow to Microsoft on Wednesday, fining the US software giant a record 899 million euros for defying a landmark 2004 antitrust ruling.... 
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Ten killed in Israel’s Gaza attack
GAZA CITY, Feb 27: Ten Palestinians, including at least six militants, were killed in Israeli air strikes on Wednesday while Palestinians rockets killed an Israeli in a spate of attacks across the Gaza Strip....
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Pilgrims flock to Karbala for chehlum
KARBALA, Feb 27: Amid tight security, millions of pilgrims flocked on Wednesday to the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala for Arbaeen, one of the holiest ceremonies in the Shia calendar which was largely suppressed during the rule of Saddam Hussein....
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Spain convicts 20 Muslim radicals
MADRID: A court in Spain on Wednesday convicted 20 Islamic radicals of belonging to a terrorist group, but acquitted them of planning to blow up the courthouse, judicial sources said....
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German court allows limited Internet surveillance
KARLSRUHE (Germany), Feb 27: Germany’s highest court ruled on Tuesday that the state was allowed to spy on Internet communications where it could prevent loss of life or an attack on the country....
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Turkey steps up Iraq onslaught
ANKARA, Feb 27: Turkey stepped up its offensive against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq on Wednesday and refused to set a pull-out timetable, despite a US warning that the incursion should last no more than “a week or two.”...
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Firing at protesters stokes tension in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Feb 27: Police shot dead another protester in southern Nepal on Wednesday as violence continued in the region crippled by weeks of general strike, an official said....
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41 countries are tax havens: OECD
PARIS: Data from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development points to 41 countries as having tax-haven status according to four criteria....
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Sharon’s son begins jail term
TEL AVIV: The son of former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon began a seven-month prison sentence on Wednesday for corruption and fraud in connection with his father’s Likud party leadership bid....
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Students protest over ‘racist’ video
JOHANNESBURG: Students and staff at a South African university picketed on Wednesday after the surfacing of a video, widely condemned as racist, of black workers made to perform degrading acts by white students....
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Karachi-educated scholar named US envoy to OIC
WASHINGTON, Feb 27: US President George W. Bush, seeking to improve America’s image in the Muslim world, on Wednesday appointed the first US envoy to the Organisation of Islamic Conference....
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Nato steps up alert for Kosovo troops
BRUSSELS, Feb 27: Nato has put two reserve battalions on a higher state of alert to deal with possible violence in Kosovo after its secession from Serbia, an alliance source said on Wednesday....
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197 in the run for Nobel Prize
OSLO, Feb 27: A total of 197 candidates are in the running for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Institute said on Wednesday, with Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, ex-German chancellor Helmut Kohl and Esperanto known to be on the list....
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US, India to study missile defence system: Gates
NEW DELHI, Feb 27: The United States and India will study the possibility of a joint missile defence system, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said on Wednesday, stressing talks were only in their early stages....
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Afghan minister survives attack
KABUL, Feb 27: Afghanistan’s interior minister on Wednesday survived an attack on his convoy, while clashes killed several civilians and Taliban militants around the country, the interior ministry said....
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Delhi plans to boost defence budget
NEW DELHI: India’s defence spending is likely to rise by between 8 and 10 per cent in this year’s budget, not enough to please the armed forces, but enough for a...
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India considers overriding drug patents in test case
NEW DELHI: India’s patent office will consider this week whether to override patents on cancer drugs made by Pfizer and Roche and allow a generics firm to export copycat versions to Nepal in the first case of its kind here....
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Hundreds of rare pashmina goats die in cold
SRINAGAR: Hundreds of rare Himalayan goats whose wool is used to make occupied Kashmir’s famed pashmina shawls have died due to heavy snow and lack of fodder, officials said on Wednesday....
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Afghan peace efforts not succeeding
KABUL: Efforts to promote pace in Afghanistan are not succeeding as they do not address local disputes which are exploited by Taliban insurgents to widen the conflict, a leading British charity said on Thursday....
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India’s IT industry seeks tax sops
BANGALORE: India’s flagship information technology industry is seeking a dose of government benevolence in the federal budget on Friday as it grapples with multiple uncertainties.The industry wants the government to prolong...
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Call for ‘sustainable peace’ in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: The abrogation of the truce signed with the Tamil Tiger rebels six years ago has secured a ‘broader space’ for all sections of the Tamil community to work towards ‘sustainable...
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PC sales in India soar, says survey
BANGALORE: Indian computer sales jumped 20 per cent last year, led by laptops, as falling prices prompted more consumers to log in and companies accelerated automation, a survey said on Wednesday....
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Lankan army has upper hand, but LTTE fighting it out
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s government has the upper hand in a new phase of a 25-year civil war against the Tamil Tigers, but it would be foolish to write the rebels off, experts say....
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