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Russian, Georgian officials refuse to sit together
GENEVA, Oct 15: Internationally-backed peace talks between Georgia and Russia broke down on the first day on Wednesday with the rivals, who fought a war in August, blaming each other for the failure to even enter the same room.... 
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Polish PM, president tussle over plane to EU summit
BRUSSELS, Oct 15: Poland’s prime minister has denied the country’s president a government flight in an attempt to prevent him from attending the European Union summit in a struggle for power in Warsaw....
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Vietnamese journalist jailed for ‘abuse of power’
HANOI, Oct 15: A court in Vietnam sentenced a journalist to two years in jail on Wednesday after finding him guilty of “abuse of power” while covering a state corruption scandal two years ago....
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43 killed in Sri Lanka fighting
COLOMBO/CHENNAI: Heavy fighting broke out across Sri Lanka’s northern area of Kilinochchi, leaving 37 Tamil Tiger rebels and six soldiers dead, the defence ministry said on Wednesday....
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Convert admits to plotting bomb attack
LONDON, Oct 15: A Muslim convert pleaded guilty to a failed suicide bomb attack at a city centre restaurant in Devon....
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Adiga wins Booker for ‘White Tiger’
LONDON, Oct 15: Indian writer Aravind Adiga won the 2008 Booker Prize, one of the world’s most prestigious literary awards, for his debut novel “The White Tiger”, judges announced late Tuesday....
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Damascus, Beirut face same threat: Syrian FM
DAMASCUS, Oct 15: Syria urged Lebanon on Wednesday to cooperate in fighting what it described as a terrorist threat facing the two countries following bomb attacks against their security forces....
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Canadian PM re-elected with bigger numbers
OTTAWA, Oct 15: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper won re-election with a significantly stronger minority government and called on Wednesday for unity in staring down global financial turbulence....
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Drunk sparks hijack alert on Turkish flight
ISTANBUL, Oct 15: A drunk man sparked a hijack alert on a Turkish Airlines plane on Wednesday after passing a note to the pilot saying he had a bomb, a top airline official said....
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Thieves warned not to eat stolen nuts
BERLIN, Oct 15: Thieves who stole 300kg of hazelnuts in Germany have been urgently warned not to eat them....
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Thai, Cambodian troops exchange fire along border
PREAH VIHEAR, (Cambodia), Oct 15: Thai and Cambodian troops exchanged fire along the border on Wednesday, killing two Cambodian soldiers, officials said, as a dispute over land near an ancient temple turned deadly....
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Eight monks jailed
BEIJING, Oct 15: Eight monks convicted of staging a bomb attack in Tibet at the height of anti-China protests nearly seven months ago have been sentenced to prison, one of them for life, a judge said on Wednesday....
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World has prolonged Darfur conflict: UN peacekeeper
EL-FASHER (Sudan), Oct 15: The commander of the UN-led peacekeeping force in Darfur says mistakes by the international community have prolonged the conflict and that there is no immediate prospect for peace....
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Japan police guard ATMs in battle against fraud
TOKYO, Oct 15: Tens of thousands of Japanese police were standing guard over bank cash machines on Wednesday, in a bid to protect pensioners from the growing threat of fraud....
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Don’t target ethnic groups, UN court orders parties
THE HAGUE: The UN’s highest court ordered Russia and Georgia on Wednesday not to target ethnic groups in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the scene of a recent clash between Moscow and Tbilisi....
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Britain tells BD to lift emergency
DHAKA, Oct 15: A British official urged Bangladesh’s army-backed government on Wednesday to lift a state of emergency ahead of elections in December designed to restore democracy to the country....
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‘Single brain cell can reactivate paralysed limbs’
PARIS, Oct 15: One tiny brain cell is all it takes to restore voluntary movement of paralysed muscles, scientists in the United States reported on Wednesday....
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Madonna, Ritchie to divorce
NEW YORK, Oct 15: Pop megastar Madonna and her British film director husband Guy Ritchie have agreed to divorce, a spokeswoman for Madonna said on Wednesday ....
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Police asked to explain media interview of suspects
NEW DELHI, Oct 15: A court in New Delhi on Wednesday asked the city police to explain how a leading magazine managed to interview Muslim men arrested for alleged involvement in deadly serial bombings, a lawyer said....
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Teleradiology shows promise, but pitfalls lie ahead
BANGALORE: On a computer monitor in his office in the high-tech hub of Bangalore, Indian radiologist Arjun Kalyanpur examines a scan of the skull of a six-year-old boy who fell off his bicycle....
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Controlled warlordism is Afghans’ best hope
While most of the world spent the weekend (OCT11-12) trembling for its wealth, in Afghanistan the Taliban busied themselves dying in quite large numbers, during an ill-advised assault on Helmand’s provincial capital, Lashkar Gar....
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Luxury mall showcases wealth gap in India
NEW DELHI: With gold-plated ceilings, exotic fountains and the clink of champagne glasses, the Emporio Mall in New Delhi is the perfect place to while away a hot afternoon browsing through designer boutiques....
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