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Carter says Israel has 150 N-weapons
LONDON, May 26: Former US president Jimmy Carter has said Israel holds at least 150 nuclear weapons, the first time a US president has publicly acknowledged the Jewish state’s atomic arsenal.... 
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13 killed in attack on AU troops in Somalia
MOGADISHU, May 26: Islamist insurgents attacked African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu on Monday, sparking fierce clashes that killed at least 13 Somalis, most of them civilians, officials and witnesses said....
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Eight killed in Sri Lanka train bombing
COLOMBO, May 26: At least eight people were killed and scores more wounded on Monday in the bombing of a packed commuter train by suspected Tamil rebels in the suburbs of the Sri Lankan capital, officials said....
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Nine die in Russian plane crash
MOSCOW, May 26: A cargo plane crashed as it prepared to land in the city of Chelyabinsk in the Urals region of Russia on Monday, killing all nine people aboard, a spokeswoman for the emergency situations ministry said....
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Suleiman to name PM tomorrow
BEIRUT, May 26: Lebanese President Michel Suleiman will appoint a prime minister on Wednesday to head a new cabinet that will be formed as part of an agreement to end 18 months of political conflict....
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Statues of Cleopatra, Aphrodite found
CAIRO, May 26: An alabaster head of Cleopatra and a mask thought to belong to her lover Mark Antony have been found near Egypt’s Mediterranean city of Alexandria, antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said on Monday....
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Truth commission set up in BD
DHAKA, May 26: The military-controlled government of Bangladesh on Sunday finalised the much talked about decision to set up a ‘truth commission’ to allow corruption suspects to voluntarily admit to their...
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Iran defying calls to suspend enrichment, says IAEA
VIENNA, May 26: Iran is continuing to defy UN demands that it suspend uranium enrichment, the UN atomic watchdog said on Monday....
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Hezbollah won’t use arms for political gain, says Nasrallah
BEIRUT, May 26: Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed his militant group would not use its arms to achieve political gains, in a fiery speech on Monday to mark the anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from south Lebanon....
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Ethiopian court sentences Mengistu to death
ADDIS ABABA, May 26: Ethiopia’s supreme court on Monday sentenced former Marxist ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam to death, granting a prosecution appeal that a life sentence he received last year did not match the seriousness of his crimes....
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Man punished for defending Iran’s feminists
TEHRAN, May 26: A man defending Iran’s feminists has been convicted to a year in prison, the moderate Kargozaran newspaper reported on Monday.Amir Yaqoubali is a supporter of the “One Million Signatures” petition campaign launched in June 2006....
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Cracks of doom for India’s ruling party
NEW DELHI: With Hindu nationalists winning power in India’s “silicon valley” state, the ruling Congress party’s chances of holding onto national office are dimming....
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Afghanistan adds hunger to its worries
KABUL: By 7am, the bakers of Sang Tarashi Street have been hard at work for hours, shaping globs of dough, slapping them into a hot clay oven and flipping them out at just the right second....
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Berlusconi team splits opinion in Italy and Europe
ROME: While Silvio Berlusconi is enjoying unusually widespread praise at home for his sober, consensual new leadership style, Europe worries that Italy’s new government has a right-wing agenda that is encouraging racism....
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Unmanned planes to explore hurricanes
MIAMI: US researchers are ramping up their use of unmanned, remote-controlled airplanes this year to penetrate the heart of Atlantic hurricanes in the hope of learning more about what makes the giant storms tick....
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Cannes flatters revolutionaries, boxers, protesters
CANNES: If you are a Latin American revolutionary, a tormented boxer, a drug-addled soccer genius or IRA hungerstriker, then the Cannes film festival was the place to come for a flattering celluloid version of your life....
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Babylon bears scars of US-led invasion
BABYLON: The last outsiders to visit the ruins of the once-mighty city of Babylon in Iraq came in tanks and helicopters, leaving a blight on its historic and fragile landscape, archaeologists say....
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