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Iran urges developing states to fight UN ‘bias’
TEHRAN, July 29: Iran’s president called on Tuesday for developing nations to unite against what he said was bias by the UN Security Council, which the Islamic Republic accuses of siding with the West in a nuclear row.... 
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Zimbabwe crisis talks deadlocked: opposition
JOHANNESBURG, July 29: Negotiations in South Africa aimed at ending the political crisis in neighbouring Zimbabwe are deadlocked, opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s spokesman said on Tuesday....
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Italy calls out army to fight terrorists, stem immigration
ROME, July 29: Italy’s centre-right government on Tuesday called out the army to help police fight crime, stem illegal immigration and defend potential targets of terrorism....
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Sikh girl wins UK discrimination claim
LONDON, July 29: A Sikh teenager who was excluded from class for refusing to remove a religious bracelet at school won her discrimination claim on Tuesday in Britain’s High Court....
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3 Thai ministers’ fate in limbo
BANGKOK, July 29: The government said on Tuesday it will ask Thailand’s top legal advisers for guidance on whether three ministers named in a lottery scandal can keep their jobs....
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Cambodian troops ready to pull out from Thai border: PM
PHNOM PENH, July 29: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Tuesday that his country’s troops were ready to withdraw from a disputed border area, but indicated that Thailand would have to pull out first....
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3,000 blank passports stolen in Britain
LONDON, July 29: The Foreign Office has launched an urgent inquiry into the theft of 3,000 blank passports and visas from a security van in Manchester....
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Australia announces ‘more humane’ refugee policy
SYDNEY, July 29: Australia on Tuesday announced a “more humane” policy towards refugees, saying most asylum seekers will no longer be automatically locked up when they arrive in the country....
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Israeli FM admits she was Mossad agent
JERUSALEM, July 29: Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, a contender to replace Ehud Olmert as prime minister, publicly acknowledged on Tuesday she had been an agent for the Mossad spy agency....
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Scholar sets out to debunk Eurocentric view of history
LONDON, July 29: Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings of machines are uncannily similar to Chinese originals and were undoubtedly derived from them, a British amateur historian says in a newly-published book....
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Russian subs reach bottom of Lake Baikal
MOSCOW, July 29: Two small, manned submarines reached the bottom of Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest freshwater lake, on Tuesday, Russian news reports said....
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Baghdad pilgrimage passes peacefully
BAGHDAD, July 29: A major pilgrimage of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis to a Baghdad shrine passed peacefully on Tuesday, a day after three female suicide bombers killed 35 people among crowds of pilgrims....
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Bomb blast at Spanish resort
MADRID, July 29: A small bomb exploded on Spain’s Costa del Sol early on Tuesday, causing no injuries or damage, and the government blamed Basque ETA separatists for what it said...
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Seven Serbs jailed over Srebrenica killings
SARAJEVO: Bosnia’s war crimes court sentenced seven Bosnian Serbs to prison terms ranging from 38 to 42 years on Tuesday for taking part in the mass killing of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in July 1995....
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Workers evacuated from French nuclear site
PARIS: More than 120 workers evacuated a nuclear power plant in southern France on Tuesday after an alarm was set off, the nuclear safety authority said....
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BD beggars seek law on minimum donations
DHAKA: A group of beggars in northern Bangladesh are lobbying local politicians to set a minimum rate that people can give them because they are struggling with spiralling inflation, an official said....
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US calls Israeli settlement ‘a problem’
WASHINGTON: The United States called Israeli settlement building “a problem” on Tuesday as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice began fresh talks in her uphill push for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal this year....
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Indian opposition to block reforms approval
NEW DELHI: India’s main opposition said on Tuesday it would try to block parliamentary approval for key economic reforms like privatisations after the government won a confidence vote marred by bribery charges last week....
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‘There’s possibility of life in space’
TOKYO: The US commander of space shuttle Discovery believes life probably exists somewhere in outer space, but there is a simple reason why aliens have not visited earth — the journey is too tough....
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Labour Party divided over its leader
LONDON: Cabinet ministers and Labour MPs are doomed to have restless holidays. Multi-layered calculations whirl around their fragile minds as they agonise over what to do when their anguished breaks comes to an end....
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Premature babies prone to lung problems, says study
NEW YORK: Infants born prematurely are at increased risk for a chronic lung disease, called bronchopulmonary dysplasia, associated with prolonged use of oxygen therapy or a respirator....
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Medvedev fails to tackle ‘legal nihilism’
WASHINGTON: Though he had been handpicked by Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev’s inauguration as Russia’s president in early May inspired some in the West to hope for real change in the Kremlin....
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Passengers make computers crash
BEIJING: Scores of Chinese air passengers smashed computers and desks and clashed with police on Tuesday after a night stranded at an airport without accommodation, state media said....
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Collision course in Turkey
LONDON: It is hard to think of a nation more familiar than Turkey with the tensions between East and West, between religion and nationalism, between autocracy and democracy....
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