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‘US may rely more on Afghan tribal militia’
WASHINGTON, Oct 11: Frustrated by a potential failure in Afghanistan, the United States is scrambling to forge a new strategy expanding tribal militias’ power, The Los Angeles Times reported on Saturday.... 
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Allocation threatens power-sharing deal: Mugabe’s party gets key ministries
HARARE, Oct 11: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has allocated three important government ministries to his ZANU-PF party, angering the opposition and threatening a power-sharing deal....
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Austria’s far-right chief killed in accident
VIENNA, Oct 11: Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider, a charismatic populist who helped thrust anti-immigrant politics into the European mainstream, was killed in a car accident on Saturday....
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Aceh leader returns to Indonesia after 32 years in exile
BANDA ACEH (Indonesia), Oct 11: Hasan di Tiro, founder of the former rebel group GAM in Indonesia’s Aceh, returned to the once restive province on Saturday after 30 years in exile, calling for everyone to help keep the peace....
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12 killed in Russian earthquake
ROSTOV-ON-DON (Russia), Oct 11: A strong earthquake killed 12 people and damaged scores of buildings on Saturday in North Caucasus, officials said....
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US enemies in Mideast gloat over financial crisis
CAIRO, Oct 11: America’s opponents in the Middle East are gloating at the financial meltdown in the United States, describing it as the divinely inspired collapse of an overstretched empire....
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Amitabh taken to hospital
MUMBAI, Oct 11: Bollywood legend Amitabh Bachchan, who turned 66 on Saturday, was undergoing medical tests after complaining of abdominal cramps, a hospital spokesman said, as fans feared for his health....
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Sudan arms build-up cause for concern
KHARTOUM: The seizure of a shipload of tanks that many believe were destined for south Sudan has put a spotlight on a build-up of arms in Africa’s largest country by the sides that signed a peace deal in 2005....
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Letters reveal a worldly Einstein
LONDON: Letters penned by Albert Einstein, which reveal his views on how to deal with a belligerent Russia after the Second World War and which dismiss as “twaddle” the notion that...
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Falafel feud over right to food names
BEIRUT: After decades of war, invasion and occupation, Lebanon and Israel have plenty of tension simmering between them; but the latest source of strife is literally cooking....
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Mexicans experience ‘thrill’ of border crossings
EL ALBERTO (Mexico): Sirens wailed through the chill night air as a group of Mexicans stumbled down a country road, crouching in the grass among rats and snakes to escape the flashlights of border patrol agents....
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Sign language with regional accents
Marcel Hirshman holds two hands horizontally in front of him and sweeps them together repeatedly. “That can mean ‘arrangement’,” he says. “But it can also mean ‘having sex’....
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