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China denounces proposed US arms sales to Taiwan
BEIJING, Oct 4: China on Saturday denounced proposed $6.5 billion US arms sales to Taiwan, according to state media, hours after Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou had thanked Washington.... 
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Lankan army closes in on LTTE stronghold
COLOMBO, Oct 4: Sri Lanka’s military battled within 2km of the separatist Tamil Tigers’ headquarters town and allowed civilians to flee before a final siege, the army said on Saturday....
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Israel accuses N. Korea of arming six ME nations
VIENNA, Oct 4: Israel accused North Korea on Saturday of providing weapons of mass destruction to six countries in the Middle East that ignored arms-control commitments....
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Controversial FBI guidelines okayed
WASHINGTON, Oct 4: US Attorney-General Michael Mukasey on Friday signed new guidelines for FBI operations he said are designed to better protect the country from terrorist attacks, but that raise concern of some lawmakers and civil rights groups....
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Thousands protest Tata car plant shifting
SINGUR (India), Oct 4: Thousands of protestors armed with iron bars demonstrated on Saturday over the decision by Tata Motors to abandon a factory to make the world’s cheapest car....
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UK cabinet shuffle sends out conflicting messages
Different elements of Gordon Brown’s long-heralded cabinet reshuffle can be interpreted differently, but every aspect pales into insignificance beside the recall of Peter Mandelson. Forget the rarity of a country’s EU...
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Poverty-linked ailments make a comeback
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 4: Poverty-related diseases such as Chagas, rabies and yellow fever are making a comeback in Argentina because prevention campaigns cut during a deep economic crisis seven years ago have still not recovered....
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‘Millions to die in China from lung diseases’
HONG KONG, Oct 4: Tens of millions of people will die from respiratory illness and lung cancer over the next 25 years in China if nothing is done to reduce smoking and fuel burning indoors, scientists warned....
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Tallest man becomes tallest dad
BEIJING, Oct 4: World’s tallest man China’s Bao Xishun became the world’s tallest father this week with the birth of his first child, a boy whose initial height seems a compromise between his gigantic dad and average-sized mum....
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Blast claimed peacekeeper’s life: Russia
MOSCOW, Oct 4: A senior Russian peacekeeping officer was among seven soldiers killed on Friday in an explosion in Georgia’s breakaway region of South Ossetia, Russian media reported on Saturday....
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Bosnian wartime commander arrested
SARAJEVO, Oct. 4: Bosnian police have arrested Muslim wartime commander Naser Oric, three months after he was acquitted by the UN war crimes tribunal of charges against Bosnian Serbs, a police source said on Saturday....
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Man burns in-laws to death
VIENNA, Oct 4: Austrian police say a man has murdered his parents-in-law by setting them on fire with a homemade flame-thrower.Chief investigator Anton Kiesl says the 48-year-old man set the elderly...
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Diary that survived shuttle blast on show
JERUSALEM: Pages from a diary written by an astronaut on board the doomed space shuttle Columbia are to go on display on Sunday, more than five years after the mission disintegrated on re-entry to Earth....
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Queen of satire
IF America wakes up on the morning of Wednesday November 5 to discover that John McCain has taken the White House and a moose-shooting former beauty queen from Alaska is now...
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Libyans go for foreign goods with a vengeance
TRIPOLI: Libyans are shaking off decades of deprivation resulting from an iron-fisted socialist rule, international isolation and sanctions to savour the joys of their new market economy....
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Vermeer was no degenerate garret artist
LONDON: She’s back. The Mona Lisa of the modern age, Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring, is in town again and kicking up a storm. As a result, members of the...
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