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US, Asian powers raise alarm over oil price spiral
AOMORI (Japan), June 7: The United States and Asia’s four largest powers voiced “serious concerns” on Saturday after the single biggest one-day hike in oil prices, warning that the global economy was at risk.... 
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Turkish speaker seeks to curtail court’s powers
ANKARA, June 7: Turkey’s parliament speaker suggested curtailing the powers of the Constitutional Court on Saturday after it annulled a law which removed a ban on headscarves at universities....
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West ‘resigned’ to Iranian nuclear programme: Israeli minister
JERUSALEM, June 7: An Israeli minister on Saturday accused the international community of failing to halt Iran’s nuclear drive and the West of being “resigned” to Tehran’s development of nuclear weapons....
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US helpless as firms block access to oil
WASHINGTON: Resource nationalism in oil producing countries is cordoning off valuable supplies and the United States has precious few options to battle the trend amid a looming supply crunch....
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Tory party chief faces row over nanny expenses
LONDON, June 7: David Cameron’s Conservative party faced further questions over the claiming of publicly-funded expenses on Saturday after confirming that its chairman paid her nanny money from parliamentary allowances....
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Another religious cult in Texas under probe
NEW YORK, June 7: A religious cult leader in Abilene (Texas) who has predicted that a nuclear war will begin on Thursday (June 12) will have his day in the US court on charges of bigamy and other crimes....
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World must change for salvation: UN official
UNITED NATIONS, June 7: Saying that “selfishness had brought the world to the “terrible quagmire” into which it was sinking irreversibly, the president-elect for the sixty-third session of United Nations...
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Tight glucose control cuts risk of kidney disease: study
SAN FRANCISCO, June 7: Maintaining tight control of blood glucose (sugar) in type 2 diabetics reduces the risk of kidney disease by 21 per cent, according to results of a study reported at the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association....
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Stranded in space? Japan’s space lab is too roomy
HOUSTON: The new Japanese laboratory on the International Space Station has one drawback: it’s so spacious that astronauts floating in the middle of the room can get stranded, space shuttle Discovery’s commander said on Friday....
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Big business in US prefers Democrats to Republicans
WASHINGTON: For the first time in a generation, most major US business sectors are donating more campaign money to Democrats than to Republicans, according to a political fund-raising watchdog group....
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Another victim of US violence in Baghdad
BAGHDAD: Iraqi teenager Abbas Khadum died in his father’s arms, one of 25 men who locals say were shot dead in a single day by US troops in a crackdown on Shia militiamen in east Baghdad....
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More food summits, but less to eat
UNITED NATIONS: After two major UN food summits, one in 1996 and the other in 2002, the international community pledged to alleviate hunger and reduce malnutrition....
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Men and women metabolise ‘fructose differently’
NEW YORK: Men and women appear to differ in how they metabolise high levels of fructose, a simple sugar commonly used to sweeten drinks and foods....
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The pros & cons of putting reading ages on kids’ books
LONDON: The classic plot in children’s literature pits an individual with a mission against an unrelenting individual or institution. And something of this kind has now occurred in the genre itself,...
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