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Rice wants Israel to ease West Bank restrictions
JERUSALEM, May 4: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice put new pressure on Israel to ease movement restrictions in the occupied West Bank on her latest visit to the region to push sluggish peace efforts.... 
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UN suspends Gaza food aid
JERUSALEM, May 4: The UN relief agency for Palestinian refugees is to suspend its food aid distribution in Gaza on Monday because of a lack of fuel caused by the Israeli blockade, a spokesman said on Sunday....
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Clashes in Sri Lanka claim 43 lives
COLOMBO, May 4: Sri Lanka bombed a rebel storage facility on Sunday, while heavy fighting in the island’s north claimed the lives of at least 35 Tigers and eight soldiers, the defence ministry said....
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UN official decries weakening of press freedom
UNITED NATIONS, May 4: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has decried weakening of press freedom world over, saying that governments are becoming more secretive and offering propaganda disguised...
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Former Israeli minister indicted
JERUSALEM, May 4: Israel’s attorney general on Sunday announced the indictment of a former finance minister and close ally of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert over charges of embezzling over one million dollars....
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New study on human family tree
PARIS, May 4: A new, simplified family tree of humanity, published on Sunday, has dealt a blow to those who contend that the enigmatic hominids known as Neanderthals intermingled with our forebears....
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China may lend more pandas to Japan: Hu
TOKYO, May 4: China President Hu Jintao said on Sunday he is considering lending more giant pandas to Japan ahead of his landmark visit to Tokyo this week....
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America’s divide and rule strategy called short-sighted
WASHINGTON: Five years since US President George W. Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech, critics say the administration has yet to show a credible way to actually “accomplish” the mission that could...
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Poll rout raises questions over British PM’s future
LONDON: Britain’s Gordon Brown is battling to steady his Labour Party’s nerves after its worst election defeat for 40 years, but the rout raises serious questions about his future, commentators say....
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Asian vultures may face extinction in India: study
NEW DELHI: Asian vultures may face extinction in India unless a farm drug responsible for their large-scale decimation is banned outright, according to a report Sunday citing researchers....
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Free meals salvation for poor in Singapore
SINGAPORE: He cuts a lonely figure, sitting at the last table having lunch in a corner of the huge eating hall at the Singapore Buddhist Lodge, which serves daily free vegetarian meals.For...
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