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Australia’s arguments for Iraq war all wrong: Rudd
SYDNEY, June 2: All the arguments Australia used to justify sending troops to fight in Iraq proved to be wrong, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told parliament on Monday as he fulfilled an election vow to bring them home.... 
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Police seize thousands of safe deposit boxes in UK
LONDON, June 2: Police seized thousands of safe deposit boxes from three vaults in central and north London on Monday after receiving intelligence they were used by criminals to store cash, guns and drugs....
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Six children die in bus-train collision
ALLINGES (France), June 2: Six children were killed and 18 people injured on Monday when a train ploughed into a packed school bus on a level crossing in the French Alps, local officials said....
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Brown sticks to his detention plan: Terror suspects
LONDON, June 2: Prime Minister Gordon Brown, facing what is being seen here as his make or break political venture insisted on Monday that he was determined to stick to his...
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BD snubs foreign missions
DHAKA, June 2: The government of Bangladesh has requested foreign diplomats stationed in Dhaka to refrain from making ‘comments that might be construed as interference in the country’s internal affairs’....
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Dhaka hotel hit by blasts
DHAKA, June 2: Blasts at a multi-storey hotel in the Bangladesh capital overnight killed a man and injured nearly 30 others, police and fire authorities said on Monday, adding the explosions...
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US accused of operating ‘floating prisons’
LONDON, June 2: The United States has operated more than a dozen “floating prisons” to hold and question suspected Islamist extremists as part of its so-called “war on terror”, a British rights group said on Monday....
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IAEA hits out at Israel, US over Syria
VIENNA, June 2: UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei hit out at Israel and the United States on Monday for not passing on intelligence about Syria’s alleged nuclear reactor and attacking...
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Snowstorm claims 52 lives in Mongolia
BEIJING, June 2: At least 52 people have been killed in Mongolia by a severe snowstorm that has also frozen to death more than 200,000 livestock, Chinese state-run Xinhua news agency reported on Monday....
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Israel will soon disappear, says Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN, June 2: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad predicted on Monday that Muslims would uproot “satanic powers” and repeated his controversial belief that Israel will soon disappear, the Mehr news agency reported....
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In modern politics we see what we want to see
LONDON: For plenty of people, Hillary Clinton’s cringingly false boast in March that she had dodged the bullets at Tuzla airport during a visit to Bosnia in 1996 was a defining moment of exposure in her long contest with Barack Obama....
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West Bank Palestinians live in horror of losing their homes
WEST BANK: Salim Hamed Jaber, 85, shook his head angrily as he recounted how an Israeli soldier drove up to his impoverished household in the occupied West Bank to deliver a demolition order....
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Treating Iraq’s mentally ill can be risky
BAGHDAD: Every time Iraqi psychiatrist Shaalan Jauda receives a threatening text message on his mobile phone, he gets another glimpse of the terror ravaging his patients’ minds....
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Gene helping humans walk upright ‘discovered’
LONDON: Scientists claim to have discovered a gene that helps humans walk upright, after studying families with a rare condition that causes some of their members to walk on all fours....
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Former street kid helps Manila’s homeless children
MANILA: On a humid summer day, street educator Butch Nerja pounds the garbage-littered streets of Divisoria, Manila’s chaotic merchant market district, to check on his wards....
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