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Democrats’ hopes rest on the young
NEW YORK, Nov 1: With only 48 hours to vote in the American elections many polls say that the race is too tight to call but one poll predicts that if... 
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Obama ‘didn’t know aunt’s illegal status’
CHICAGO, Nov 1: Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama said on Saturday he did not know his aunt from Kenya was living in the United States illegally and believes that laws covering the situation should be followed....
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US couple fly halfway around globe to vote
WASHINGTON, Nov 1: An American immigrant couple living in India and seeking to vote in their first US election flew home to vote in person when their absentee ballots failed to arrive in time, US media reported on Saturday....
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McCain Reduces lead to 5 points
WASHINGTON, Nov 1: Democrat Barack Obama’s lead over Republican rival John McCain dipped slightly to five points with three days left in the race for the White House, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Zog by poll released on Saturday....
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America, Zimbabwe unite against arms trade curbs
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 1: The United States and Zimbabwe may not be on the best of terms, but they had a rare moment of unity on Friday when their UN envoys joined forces to vote against establishing global arms trade standards....
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Schwarzenegger mocks ‘skinny’ Obama
COLUMBUS, Nov 1: Muscleman Arnold Schwarzenegger called on Barack Obama to beef up his policies and his body at a high-voltage campaign rally for Republican John McCain on Friday....
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BD dismisses Indian charges over Assam serial blasts
DHAKA, Nov 1: Bangladesh has dismissed Indian media’s claim that a Bangladeshi group was involved in Thursday’s serial blasts in Assam that left 77 people dead....
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Lebanon detains two spies
BEIRUT, Nov 1: The Lebanese army said on Saturday it had detained two members of a spy network working for Israel....
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Bush to be seen only in TV advertisements
WASHINGTON, Nov 1: The unpopular President George W. Bush is staying off the campaign trail in the race to succeed him....
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Indian Sikhs grafting onto culture in Argentina
ROSARIO DE LA FRONTERA (Argentina): For Bibiana Jasbe Singh Kaur, being born and growing up an Indian Sikh in Argentina was not only a curious twist of history, it was also a culinary conundrum....
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US election could shift policy on Cuba
MIAMI: Florida’s Cuban-Americans have voted Republican for years. But the party could lose its grip on the heartland of exile opposition to Fidel Castro on Tuesday, signalling possible change in US policy toward Cuba....
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‘Post-American world’ is a still long way off
Is Barack Obama the candidate of American decline? To hear some of his supporters among the foreign policy punditry, you’d think he was. Francis Fukuyama says he supports Obama because he...
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Africa’s anti-desert ‘green wall’ starts small in Senegal
WIDOY THIENGOLY (Senegal): The idea was simple, ambitious and eye-catching: to counter the threat of creeping desertification in Africa with a Great Green Wall of trees spanning the continent....
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Rabin’s assassin cites influences
JERUSALEM: The assassin of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin has said in telephone interviews from prison that he was influenced by Israeli military leaders who had criticised Rabin’s land-for-peace deal with the Palestinians....
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Bureaucracy that strangled British films
LONDON: Piffle was the ruin of the British film industry. That was the firm conviction of British writer-producer-director Sidney Gilliat. Gilliat, who died in 1994, is one of the unsung heroes...
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