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Europe, Asia pledge major reform: Global financial system
BEIJING, Oct 24: European and Asian leaders pledged at a summit here on Friday to comprehensively and quickly reform the global financial system, as they vowed united action in tackling the unprecedented economic challenges.... 
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25 Kurds killed in Turkish attack
ANKARA, Oct 24: Twenty-five Kurdish rebels were killed and a number were wounded in a Turkish air strike last week targeting Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) hideouts in northern Iraq, an army spokesman said on Friday....
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Khaleda’s party threatens to boycott polls
DHAKA, Oct 24: One of Bangladesh’s main political parties threatened on Friday to boycott an election in December if its leader, former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia, is barred from contesting it because of graft charges she is facing....
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Nun accuses Indian police of complicity in attack
NEW DELHI, Oct 24: A nun in eastern India has spoken out for the first time on live television about allegations she was gang-raped by more than 40 men in August, accusing police of complicity in Hindu attacks on Christians....
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‘Obama running ahead of McCain’
NEW YORK, Oct 24: With less than two weeks to US presidential elections the buzz in the mainstream media is that Democratic nominee for the president of the United States Barack Obama would win the elections handily, perhaps in a landslide....
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Culinary show on Hitler’s favourite meal condemned
BRUSSELS, Oct 24: A culinary show on Adolf Hitler’s favourite meal to be aired next week has come under fire from Jewish, resistance and political prisoner organisations....
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NY restaurant parties like it’s 1908
NEW YORK, Oct 24: A legendary Italian restaurant in New York turned 100 years old on Thursday — and so did its prices....
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McCain’s terse response on Palin’s shopping spree
ORMOND BEACH (Florida), Oct 24: Presidential candidate John McCain isn’t happy about having to explain why the Republican Party has had to buy running mate Sarah Palin $150,000 in clothes, hair styling and accessories....
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Indian Tamils slam Colombo for action against LTTE
CHENNAI, Oct 24: Hundreds of Tamils marched in the streets of a southern Indian city on Friday to protest against the ongoing conflict in Sri Lanka, as a regional political group pressured the Indian government to stop the war....
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Secret documents say Abu Nidal ‘was a US spy’
Iraqi secret police believed that the notorious Palestinian assassin Abu Nidal was working for the Americans as well as Egypt and Kuwait when they interrogated him in Baghdad only months before the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq....
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Philippine artefacts discovery might lead to lost tribe
MANILA: When Philippine police confiscated 22 bags of broken pottery from antiquity smugglers near an area where Muslim rebels operated, little did they know that they may have uncovered the remnants of a long-lost tribe.Now,...
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Focus intensifies in handful of key states
WASHINGTON: Political strategists and pollsters refer to them as the “Triple A” states, the handful that will determine the outcome of this election and where Barack Obama and John McCain are...
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A silent, stealth killer of women
LOS ANGELES: Like any grandparent helping a daughter with a new baby and two active toddlers, Barbara Shellow was busy: changing diapers, giving baths, reading stories and playing games....
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