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Iran ready to negotiate on N-incentives: Mottaki
KAMPALA, June 19: Iran said on Thursday it was ready to negotiate over a new package of economic incentives put forward by major powers seeking to persuade Tehran to curb its nuclear work.... 
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Syria ‘encouraged’ by India-Pakistan talks
NEW DELHI, June 19: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said here on Thursday he was encouraged by the ongoing India-Pakistan dialogue, which aimed to resolve bilateral disputes without foreign mediation....
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Call for Hindu suicide squads sparks anger in India
MUMBAI, June 19: The Shiv Sena’s call for Hindu suicide squads to counter “Islamic terrorism” has caused outrage and brought embarrassment to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance, with which it is allied....
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Headscarved women kept away from Obama event
NEW YORK. June 19: Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has offered apologies for keeping Muslim women wearing headscarves out of a key shot at his Detroit rally despite invitations....
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Satellite for tracking sea levels set for launch
WASHINGTON: The French-US satellite Jason 2, slated for lift-off on Friday from California, will provide precise monitoring of rising sea levels and currents and track the effects of climate change....
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UK journalist wins case over confidentiality
LONDON: A British journalist won a legal test case over the confidentiality of reporters’ contacts on Thursday, after judges ruled against a court order seeking all his notes for a biography of a former Islamist radical....
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Russia plans Orthodox rival to Valentine’s Day
MOSCOW: Russia’s first lady has joined up with the country’s Orthodox Church to organise a fidelity festival to replace the western inspired Saint Valentine’s Day, organisers said on Thursday....
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Egypt expels 600 Eritrean asylum seekers
CAIRO: Egypt has expelled 600 Eritrean asylum seekers in a week, an Egyptian security official and a human rights activist said as the UN urged Cairo to stop the deportations....
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Torture began at the top
LOS ANGELES: Apart from understanding how and why the Bush/Cheney administration tricked the American people into going to war in Iraq, no question is more urgent than how the White House...
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UN extols Persian poet as model
UNITED NATIONS: The writings of Abu Abdullah Jafar ibn Mohammad Rudaki, a poet who is believed to have laid the foundations of Persian classical literature, should serve as an inspiration to...
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Talk of snap polls resurfaces in India over nuclear row
NEW DELHI: India’s government and its communist allies appear headed for an imminent showdown over a nuclear energy deal with the United States, a clash that threatens to trigger early elections....
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Dreams of preservation in Stalin’s bomb lab
SUKHUMI (Georgia): Behind a thicket of weeds and broken window panes, one of the former Soviet Union’s dark secrets is the laboratory where captured German scientists worked to build an atomic bomb for Josef Stalin....
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Scepticism marks start of Gaza truce
GAZA CITY: A fragile truce came into force in the Gaza Strip on Thursday amid scepticism over how long the Egyptian-brokered deal between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement would hold....
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