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Afghanistan, US seek Nato help to combat drug trade
BUDAPEST, Oct 9: Afghanistan, backed by the United States, urged Nato allies on Thursday to tackle the massive opium trade, by launching a hunt for drug lords and laboratories.... 
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US court blocks prisoners’ release: Chinese Muslims in Guantanamo
WASHINGTON, Oct 9: A US appeals court has temporarily blocked the release of 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs from the Guantanamo Bay prison camp as President George Bush’s administration scrambles to appeal it....
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Two Muslim doctors accused of terrorist acts
LONDON, Oct 9: Two National Health Service (NHS) doctors, one of them presumably of Pakistan origin, plotted “indiscriminate and wholesale” murder in a series of car bomb attacks in London and Glasgow, prosecutors told a court on Thursday....
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US, other advanced economies close to recession: IMF
WASHINGTON, Oct 9: The United States and other advanced economies in the world are close to or moving into recession, says the International Monetary Fund....
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Thai court drops treason charge against protesters
BANGKOK, Oct 9: Thailand’s Court of Appeals watered down charges against nine leaders of an anti-government street campaign on Thursday, saying there was no way they had committed the capital offence of treason....
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Thousands seek Gyanendra blessings
KATHMANDU, Oct 9: About 5,000 people lined up in front of the private home of Nepal’s ousted King Gyanendra on Thursday to seek his blessings on an important Hindu festival, his first as a commoner....
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Chicken legs: a tool in fight against BP?
HONG KONG, Oct 9: Scientists in Japan have identified four proteins in chicken legs which appear to be effective in controlling high blood pressure, a study has said....
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Religious conversions haunt India
CUTTACK (India), Oct 9: Siman Nayak’s shaved head is a stark reminder of a fate suffered by many Christians in eastern India in a battle over forced conversions to Hinduism that has left thousands of refugees fearing for their lives....
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UK varsities ranking revised downwards
LONDON, Oct. 9: Cambridge and Oxford universities have lost ground to Harvard and Yale, while fewer British universities are in the top 200 list than last year, according to a report...
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More show than substance in Lithuania poll
VILNIUS: Parliament is the least trusted institution in Lithuania, so the appeal of a fresh face is strong. That is why the host of an “American Idol”-style show may do well in Sunday’s election....
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Fear in the family
It’s probably because her work is so revealing that, talking to writer-director Polly Teale, you find yourself wondering what she isn’t saying. It’s not that she is uncommunicative; she is friendly and chatty, with a ready, raucous laugh....
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Libraries should be about books
Perhaps the peculiarly hybrid name of his department – Culture, Media and Sport – has clouded his judgment. But the Secretary of State, Andy Burnham, will shortly add his voice to...
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Street violence on the rise in Paris ‘Bronx’
PARIS: A shabby north-eastern district that is home to the French capital’s biggest Jewish community has seen a surge in street violence that led one newspaper to ask was it now “the Bronx of Paris”....
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