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Russia, US sign civilian nuclear pact
MOSCOW, May 6: Russia and the United States signed a nuclear pact on Tuesday allowing the world’s two biggest atomic powers to boost their uranium trade and work on new ways to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons.... 
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Ireland PM steps down
OLDBRIDGE (Ireland), May 6: Bertie Ahern bowed out after 11 years as Ireland’s prime minister by highlighting his role as a peace maker in Northern Ireland and leaving the problem of the fast fading economy to his successor....
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US pulling out 3,500 troops from Iraq
BAGHDAD, May 6: A pullout of 3,500 US troops from Iraq was under way on Tuesday, the military said as Baghdad and Tehran kept up diplomatic moves to halt the escalating deadly street battles with militias....
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Hu in Japan on reconciliation visit
TOKYO, May 6: President Hu Jintao on Tuesday started the first visit by a Chinese leader to Japan in 10 years as the Asian powers eased decades of tension....
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Sanjay to play Sobhraj
MUMBAI, May 6: Bollywood bad boy Sanjay Dutt, out of jail on bail for a weapons conviction, is set to play convicted French killer Charles Sobhraj who is prison in Nepal for the murder of an American woman in the 1970s....
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Malaysian blogger charged with sedition
KUALA LUMPUR, May 6: A Malaysian blogger was charged on Tuesday with sedition over an article he wrote linking a top government leader and his wife to the gruesome killing of a Mongolian woman....
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India pushes for more women MPs
NEW DELHI, May 6: The Indian government proposed long-standing legislation on Tuesday to reserve a third of parliamentary seats for women, to angry protests from male opponents in parliament....
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Thailand drops rice cartel plan
BANGKOK, May 6: Thailand’s Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama on Tuesday said the country would not form a cartel with other rice-exporting countries, bowing to concerns that it could worsen the global food shortage....
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Web firm sounds alert on criminal data trove
LONDON, May 6: A web security firm said on Tuesday it had tipped off international banks and police after finding a huge trove of stolen business and personal data amassed on a server in the space of just three weeks....
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Blocking brain enzyme helped mice stay slim
CHICAGO, May 6: Blocking a single brain enzyme helped short-circuit a key hunger signal in mice and made them eat less, lose weight and have better blood sugar control, US researchers said on Tuesday....
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Israel urged to stop building settlements
UNITED NATIONS: Calling for an end to “humanitarian suffering in Gaza’’, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said that Israel must halt settlement building in the West Bank....
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UN to send relief teams to Myanmar
UNITED NATIONS: United Nations’ top humanitarian official announced on Tuesday that the world body was prepared to provide a grant from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to help people affected...
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Concert for cabbie who returned $4m violin
NEW YORK: A Grammy-nominated violinist who left his $4 million, 285-year-old Stradivarius violin in a taxi is giving a free concert at an airport taxi stand for the driver who returned it....
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85,000-year-old decorative shells found
RABAT: Archaeologists have uncovered shells used for finery by prehistoric man 85,000 years ago in a cave in eastern Morocco, the country’s heritage institute said on Tuesday....
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War trauma a big test for US armed forces
FORT DRUM (New York): Fort Drum, a bleak US Army base in upstate New York, is a test case for how the military is handling a looming mental health crisis....
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Obama and Hillary gird for another stalemate
INDIANAPOLIS: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton faced a new day of destiny on Tuesday with Democratic primaries in Indiana and North Carolina, as the climax approached in their gripping White House race....
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Secrecy compounds Myanmar disaster
LONDON: “No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy,” Amartya Sen once wrote. This, argued the Nobel-prize winning economist, was because democratically elected governments “have to win elections and face public criticism”....
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Putin restored Russia’s pride
MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin, who will step down on Wednesday after eight years as president, allowed nothing to get in the way of his goal of making Russia great again....
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