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Bush rejects calls for talks with Iran as ‘appeasement’
JERUSALEM, May 15: US President George Bush on Thursday decried his critics’ calls for negotiations with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as comparable to the “appeasement” of Adolf Hitler before World War Two.... 
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Arab mediators unveil deal to defuse crisis: Lebanon clashes
BEIRUT, May 15: Arab mediators unveiled a deal on Thursday to defuse a long-running feud between rival political factions that drove deeply divided Lebanon to the brink of a new civil war....
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Warrants issued for arrest of six former BD ministers
DHAKA, May 15: A Dhaka court on Thursday issued warrants for the arrest of six former ministers and six others shown fugitives in the GATCO scam case....
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19-year-old elected mayor of US city
WASHINGTON, May 15: It’s certainly a good start: a 19-year-old political science student who dreams of becoming US president was elected mayor of Muskogee, Oklahoma, beating a 70-year-old for the job ....
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Smallest copter
TOKYO, May 15: A Japanese man who developed the world’s smallest helicopter will take flight in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci in tribute to the Renaissance genius’ original idea.—AP...
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Cherie’s book sparks row
LONDON, May 15: Former British prime minister Tony Blair’s wife defended herself on Thursday after the family of David Kelly, the official who committed suicide in a row over Iraq, slammed her for writing about it....
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House of Representatives twin blows to Bush
WASHINGTON: The US House of Representatives on Thursday struck twin blows to President George Bush by defeating a legislation that would have funded the war in Iraq and Afghanistan for another...
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Obama reacts to Bush’s remarks
NEW YORK: Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama on Thursday blasted President Bush for criticising him in a speech in the Israeli Knesset on Thursday morning terming it a “false political attack on a foreign soil.”...
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UN humanitarian official to visit Myanmar
UNITED NATIONS: To underscore sense of urgency to send help to Myanmar UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has said he will send the organisation’s highest ranking aid official to the...
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California court allows gay marriages
SAN FRANCISCO: The Supreme Court of California ruled on Wednesday to allow the same-sex marriages....
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Hawking meets Mandela
JOHANNESBURG: Scientist Stephen Hawking hailed the peaceful end of South Africa’s apartheid era as one of the great achievements of his lifetime on Thursday as he met the first black president Nelson Mandela....
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Hypocrisy and the West’s failure to act
LONDON: You don’t have to be cynical to do foreign policy, but it helps. A sigh of relief rose over the West’s chancelleries on Monday as it became clear that the Chinese earthquake was big big enough to trump Myanmar’s cyclone....
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Italy arrests 400 in swoop on illegal immigrants
ROME: Italian police announced on Thursday the arrest of hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants in a sign of the determination of Silvio Berlusconi’s new right-wing government to clamp down....
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Afghan police reforms will take a long time
GHULAM ALI (Afghanistan): Sergeant Chris Padron, a thick-set former cop from Texas turned police trainer in Afghanistan, fixed the group of earnest Afghan policemen with a hard stare and delivered his next question....
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Baby supernova seen right in our neighborhood
WASHINGTON: A baby supernova, just over a century old, has been found in the middle of our own Milky Way galaxy and provides an unprecedented opportunity to watch a star dying, astronomers said....
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How did Noah’s Ark float? New species cram aboard
OSLO: How did Noah’s Ark manage to stay afloat?...
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