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Nuclear treaty at risk: big powers
GENEVA, May 9: The five major nuclear-armed powers said on Friday the Non-Proliferation Treaty was under threat and cited Iran’s uranium enrichment campaign in a rare joint call for action to shore up the NPT.... 
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Sri Lanka cafe bomb kills 11
COLOMBO, May 9: A bomb went off inside a cafe in eastern Sri Lanka killing at least 11 people on Friday, the military said, a day before the first local elections in the region in two decades....
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Maoists open talks to form new govt in Nepal
KATHMANDU, May 9: Nepal’s Maoists and mainstream political parties held a first round of talks Friday to set up a new government following the former insurgents’ stunning win in landmark polls, officials said....
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Obama momentum mounts in White House race
WASHINGTON, May 9: Barack Obama’s White House drive picked up pace on Friday with more superdelegates rallying to his side, including the head of a leading union, as former rival John Edwards all but endorsed his campaign....
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US, France call for bypassing Myanmar junta to help victims
LONDON: The US and France on Thursday called for international aid to be delivered to cyclone victims without the permission of Myanmar’s military government if the regime continues to block the arrival of foreign aid workers and material assistance....
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The hungry in BD want rice, not potatoes
DHAKA: The humble potato is being promoted as the answer to soaring rice prices in impoverished Bangladesh as the crisis pushes many to the brink of starvation, but the poor are reluctant converts....
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Medvedev warns against ‘irresponsible ambitions’
MOSCOW, May 9: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned on Friday against “irresponsible ambitions” that can spark conflict across continents, at his first World War II military parade since taking office....
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Olmert fights for political life in bribery scandal
JERUSALEM, May 9: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was facing mounting calls on Friday to resign over a criminal probe into allegations he took bribes from a millionaire US financier....
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Sahara made slow transition from green to desert: study
WASHINGTON, May 9: The Sahara became the world’s biggest hot desert some 2,700 years ago after a very slow fade from green, according to a new study which clashes with the theory that desertification came abruptly....
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Thai police seize 21,000 fake passports
BANGKOK: Thai police on Friday seized nearly 21,000 fake passports and arrested 12 people in what they described as their biggest-ever bust of a counterfeiting ring, a senior official said.Most...
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Turban diktat kicks up row in Sikh school
NEW DELHI: Hindu parents at an Indian school are protesting after the school’s Sikh authorities asked all students to wear traditional Sikh headgear to school. School authorities in the Sikh-dominated state...
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Tamil Tiger leader in UK detention centre
COLOMBO: A former leader of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebel splinter group, jailed in Britain since January, has been released and transferred to an immigration detention centre, officials said on Friday....
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Stone’s Bush biopic set for pre-election release
LOS ANGELES: Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone’s biopic charting the life and times of US President George Bush will be released three weeks before November’s presidential election, a magazine reported on Thursday....
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Kashmir’s rare red deer faces extinction
SRINAGAR: Occupied Kashmir’s endangered red deer faces extinction without a captive breeding programme that will start this summer in the scenic Himalayan region, Indian wildlife officials said on Friday....
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Chelsea gunman shot at least five times by police
LONDON: The barrister who died in an armed siege in the exclusive Chelsea area of London was shot at least five times by police, an inquest heard on Friday....
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Hopeless motorists turn to God for cheap petrol
WASHINGTON: At a petrol station in Washington, Rocky Twyman and an unusual group of activists were mad as hell about soaring fuel prices....
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Chef favours seasonal vegetables
LONDON: Celebrity British chef Gordon Ramsay said restaurants should be fined if they serve out-of-season fruit and vegetables....
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Global cooling theories put scientists on guard
LONDON: A new study suggesting a possible lull in man-made global warming has raised fears of a reduced urgency to battle climate change....
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Mother’s infection may boost epilepsy risk in offspring
NEW YORK: Exposure to certain maternal infections in the womb increases the odds of epilepsy in childhood, according to an analysis of data from a Danish study....
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Report questions FBI efficiency in the face of security threat
WASHINGTON: Nearly seven years after the terror attacks of Sept 11, 2001, the FBI “has yet to make the dramatic leaps necessary” to become an effective intelligence-gathering organisation and protect the country from terrorism, a congressional analysis released on Thursday found....
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