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Indian parties seek support of ailing, jailed MPs: Vote of trust
NEW DELHI: India’s parliament could resemble a prison and hospital ward this week with rival parties ordering all MPs, including the seriously ill and the jailed, to show up for a key government confidence vote....
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Britain grapples with surge of knife attacks
LONDON: Britain is struggling to get to grips with a surge of fatal knife attacks, which analysts say reflects a growing sense of insecurity on the country’s streets....
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Thousands rally for freedom of Colombian hostages
BOGOTA, July 20: Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets on Sunday in Bogota and other world capitals seeking the release of captives still held by leftist rebels in the Colombian jungle....
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Brown urges freeze on Jewish settlements
BETHLEHEM (West Bank), July 20: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday pledged new aid to the Palestinians and called for a freeze on Israeli settlement building to bolster the Middle East peace process....
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S. Korea accuses Japan of damaging ties
SEOUL, July 20: South Korean Prime Minister Han Seung-Soo on Sunday accused Japan of damaging bilateral ties and putting regional peace at risk with its renewed claim to a group of Seoul-controlled islets....
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N-talks a step forward, says Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN, July 20: Iran’s president described talks with world powers on its disputed nuclear programme as a step forward on Sunday, official media said, even though the meeting in Geneva failed to produce any breakthrough in the standoff....
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Thailand, Cambodia pledge to end border conflict
SINGAPORE, July 20: Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to “exert utmost efforts” to find a peaceful solution to their border conflict at a disputed temple, Singapore’s Foreign Minister George Yeo said on Sunday....
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US forces kill son, nephew of Iraqi governor
TIKRIT, July 20: US forces on Sunday shot dead the son and a nephew of the governor of northern Iraq’s Salaheddin province during a raid, police said....
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Myanmar may release Suu Kyi in six months
SINGAPORE: Military-ruled Myanmar could release detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in about half a year, once a maximum detention period of six years has expired, Singapore’s foreign minister said on Sunday....
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Afghan police seize 44 tonnes of drugs
KABUL: Afghan counter narcotics police have seized 44 tonnes of heroin and opium in the last three months, a big achievement in the fight against record-breaking drug production, a top government official said on Sunday....
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Water shortage threatens a million in Australia
SYDNEY: Up to a million people in Australia could face a shortage of drinking water if the country’s drought continues, a report on the state of the nation’s largest river system revealed on Sunday....
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Eight women face stoning in Iran
TEHRAN: At least eight women and one man have been sentenced to be stoned to death in Iran and may be executed at any time, the lawyers defending several of those sentenced said on Sunday....
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Rice allows extradition of ‘Doctor Death’ to Australia
SYDNEY: A surgeon linked to the deaths of more than a dozen patients in Australia is expected to be extradited from the United States within days, a top politician said on Sunday....
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Anwar revives bid for power despite arrest
MALACCA (Malaysia): Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim toured Malaysia over the weekend in a bid to revive his ambitions of seizing power despite his arrest on sodomy allegations — the same charge that saw him jailed a decade ago....
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Iran given two-week deadline to end nuclear impasse
GENEVA: Iran was given a fortnight to agree to freeze its uranium enrichment programme on Saturday or face further international isolation....
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Former king writing poetry, surfing Net
KATHMANDU: With few friends coming to visit and his son and one-time heir now living in Singapore, the new life of Nepal’s ousted king as a commoner is by all accounts a lonely, meditative one....
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Gulf states look to harvest food
DUBAI: Faced with a scarcity of fertile land, water shortages and surging world food prices, wealthy Arab states in the Gulf are seeking to secure their food supplies by investing in agriculture abroad....
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Iran official professes friendship for Israelis
TEHRAN: Iran may be Israel’s sworn enemy but a senior official said the Islamic Republic was nevertheless friendly to the Jewish state’s people, a news agency reported....
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