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Israel to attack Iran’s nuke sites in 4 to 7 months: scholar
NEW YORK, July 19: “Israel will almost surely attack Iran’s nuclear sites in the next four to seven months”, asserted Benny Morris, a Professor at Ben Gurion University in Israel, in an op-ed article in the New York Times on Friday.... 
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Iraq’s Sunni bloc ends govt boycott
BAGHDAD, July 19: Iraq’s main Sunni bloc on Saturday ended an almost year-long boycott of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s government, in a major boost for reconciliation in the deeply divided country....
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Nepal assembly fails to elect first president
KATHMANDU, July 19: Lawmakers in Nepal on Saturday failed to elect the country’s first president and end weeks of political deadlock following the abolition of the Himalayan monarchy, official television said....
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Khaleda’s brother arrested for graft
DHAKA, July 19: Bangladesh has arrested the younger brother of detained former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia for alleged corruption, police said on Saturday....
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BD protests to India over border shooting
DHAKA, July 19: Bangladesh has lodged a formal protest with India over the shooting dead of two border guards earlier in the week, a foreign ministry statement said on Saturday....
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New way to view boat entombed near Pyramid
CAIRO, July 19: Egypt on Saturday revealed a unique way of viewing a wooden boat entombed 4,500 years ago next to Giza’s Great Pyramid where exposure to the atmosphere had threatened its destruction....
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Power struggle in India undermines people’s rule
NEW DELHI: As the parliamentary floor test for the controversial United States-India nuclear cooperation deal approaches, the domestic political odds seem to be turning against India’s ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh....
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Secularism failing the test of democracy in Turkey
WASHINGTON: Turkey’s political crisis has taken a turn for the worse. The chief prosecutor, who has accused the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of anti-secular statements and actions, has presented his argument to the Constitutional Court....
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Suu Kyi barred from Myanmar martyrs day gathering
YANGON: Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was kept under house arrest on Saturday as others gathered to pay tribute to her late father on Martyrs’ day....
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Geneva has special role in world diplomacy
GENEVA: The neutral Swiss venue chosen for the first meeting of an Iranian nuclear negotiator and a senior US envoy has its own special place in the history of diplomacy one replete with both success and failure.The...
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A slight relief for US drivers
NEW YORK: US drivers could get a little reprieve from record high gasoline prices for the remainder of the summer thanks to a steep drop in the price of oil, some industry watchers said on Friday....
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US pragmatism clashes with war policies of Obama & McCain
WASHINGTON: A new US-Iraqi agreement raising the possibility of a withdrawal timeline threatens to complicate the war policies of presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain....
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