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UAE to host US-backed forum on Arab reform
DUBAI, Oct 14: The United Arab Emirates will host a forum on political reform in the Arab world this weekend amid questions about whether the annual gathering launched by US President George Bush has made any difference.... 
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UK house rejects proposal to extend detention period
LONDON, Oct 14: The House of Lords rejected on Monday evening a widely criticised proposal to extend detention period without charge from 28 to 42 days for terror suspects by a massive 309 to 118 votes....
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Firefighters battling deadly blazes in California
LOS ANGELES, Oct 14: Firefighters were bracing for more winds on Monday as they battled to contain two wildfires blazing north of Los Angeles that have left one person dead and forced thousands to flee....
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French director planning film on Kashmir
LONDON, Oct. 14: Oscar-winning French director Jean-Jacques Annaud is understood to be planning a terrorism thriller on Kashmir....
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Vietnamese journalists on trial for exposing state corruption
HANOI, Oct 14: Vietnam on Tuesday put on trial two reporters who helped expose a major state corruption scandal, in a case seen as a test on the limits of media freedom in the communist country....
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More investment will be needed in farm sector: World Food Day
PARIS, Oct 14: As global governments pour trillions into shoring up ailing banks, World Food Day will be marked on Thursday by calls to invest massively in farming to combat burgeoning hunger and a price spiral....
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US calls for end to emergency in BD
DHAKA, Oct 14: The United States has called on Bangladesh’s army-backed government to lift a state of emergency ahead of elections aimed at restoring democracy in the South Asian nation by year-end....
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UN seeks homes for stranded Palestinians
GENEVA, Oct 14: About 3,000 Palestinian refugees stranded in the Iraq desert desperately needed a home abroad, the United Nations said on Tuesday in an appeal to countries to take them in....
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Human remains found in crocodile
CANBERRA, Oct 14: Police in Australia’s far north have conducted DNA tests to identify human remains found in the stomach of a 4.3 metre crocodile, Australian media reported on Tuesday....
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40 rebels killed in Sri Lanka clashes
COLOMBO, Oct 14: Fighting in northern Sri Lanka heightened on Tuesday as government troops neared its main target, the LTTE’s headquarters in Killinochchi, killing at least 40 rebels, military officials said on Tuesday....
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Three killed in Nepal blast
KATHMANDU, Oct 14: A powerful bomb killed three people in a small town in southeast Nepal on Tuesday, police said....
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Four Bosnian Serbs held for war crimes
SARAJEVO, Oct 14: Bosnian police on Tuesday arrested four Bosnian Serbs suspected of taking part in a massacre of more than 200 Muslims and Croats early in the 1992-95 Bosnian war, the state prosecutor’s office said....
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Brain responds when women wear makeup: scientists
TOKYO, Oct 14: When a woman puts on makeup and looks in the mirror, it is as if she is seeing a different person, according to Japanese scientists....
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Frankfurt book fair opens today
FRANKFURT, Oct 14: The world’s largest book fair opens to the public here on Wednesday under the cloud of a world financial meltdown that its celebrity invitation list of writers and politicians cannot dispel....
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Syria, Lebanon establish ties
DAMASCUS, Oct 14: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a decree on Tuesday to establish diplomatic relations with Lebanon for the first time since the two Arab neighbours won independence from France in the 1940s....
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Singapore court calls 3 persons for contempt
SINGAPORE, Oct 14: Three persons will be brought to court for contempt because they showed up at Singapore’s supreme court in T-shirts printed with a kangaroo dressed in a judge’s gown, Singapore’s attorney general said on Tuesday....
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Role of blue-collar racism in White House race
PITTSBURGH: John Duffey shakes his head as he recalls bruising racial encounters with his fellow Americans. From morning to night since May he has been working the phones on behalf of Barack Obama....
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Picasso’s restored ‘Le Reve’ hits headlines again
Twice in 10 years, Pablo Picasso’s celebrated 1932 painting of his sleeping mistress, Marie-Therese Walter, made international headlines. Alas, the artist’s breathtaking skill and candid insight into human nature were not the cause....
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No peace in sight in DR Congo’s region
NAIROBI: The Democratic Republic of Congo’s powder keg east is being bled dry as Kinshasa and Kigali refuse to bury the hatchet and marauding militias plunder its bountiful mineral wealth, analysts say....
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