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Afghanistan will be a major challenge for Obama: Powell
WASHINGTON, Nov 6: Former US secretary of state Colin Powell warned on Thursday that the Afghan war would be the second biggest challenge for President-elect Barack Obama after his inauguration on Jan 20.... 
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Chief of staff choice worries Arab, Muslim groups
NEW YORK, Nov 6: A number of Arab and Muslim groups are not happy about President-elect Barack Obama’s choice of his chief of staff announced a day after his election....
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Taiwan president meets China envoy: Meeting sparks protests
TAIPEI, Nov 6: Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-jeou made history on Thursday when he met a senior Chinese official as tens of thousands of anti-Beijing protesters brought the island’s capital to a standstill....
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Blast kills 11 Russians
VLADIKAVKAZ (Russia), Nov 6: A suspected bomb blast killed 11 people outside a Russian market on Thursday, prosecutors said, in one of the worst attacks in months to hit Russia’s turbulent North Caucasus region....
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Myanmar refuses to back down in row with Bangladesh
YANGON, Nov 6: Myanmar refused to back down on Thursday in a row with Bangladesh, vowing it would continue to explore gas in disputed waters despite a four-day standoff between warships in the Bay of Bengal....
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Hasina returns to fight polls
DHAKA, Nov 6: Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina returned to Bangladesh on Thursday after receiving medical treatment in the United States, vowing to lead her party in parliamentary elections next month....
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Tehran bans weekly critical of Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN, Nov 6: The Iranian press watchdog has banned popular moderate weekly, Shahrvand Emrouz, which has been critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the magazine’s lawyer said on Thursday....
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Four killed as man drives truck into school
BEIJING, Nov 6: A truck driver killed four people and injured 20 when he seeking revenge for a traffic dispute with police drove a truck into a crowded schoolyard in southern China, the Xinhua news agency said late on Wednesday....
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Peres to attend inter-faith conference
JERUSALEM, Nov 6: Israeli President Shimon Peres plans to join Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah at a UN interfaith conference this month, Peres’ office said on Wednesday, raising the possibility of an...
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Four extremists get jail in France over terror plot
PARIS, Nov 6: Four men who ran an Islamic extremist network that tried to plan attacks in Europe and send volunteers to fight in Iraq were on Thursday given jail terms of between two and six years each....
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Poll victory triggers racist attack
NEW YORK, Nov 6: A black Muslim teenager, of the Staten Island borough in New York has charged that he was beaten on Election Night by four white men furious at the election of Barack Obama as president....
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Obama’s safety: new headache for security agencies?
WASHINGTON, Nov 6: Barack Obama made history by becoming the first African-American US president-elect, but security agents now face major challenges in protecting him, experts say, as his race may make him more of a target than his predecessors....
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Michelle Obama’s dress sparks criticism
WASHINGTON, Nov 6: Barack Obama’s victory speech may have electrified the nation, but the dress worn by his wife, Michelle, has attracted almost as much feedback in Internet chatrooms and among fashion aficionados....
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Palestinians boycott ‘useless’ Jerusalem mayoral vote
JERUSALEM: Arab residents of Jerusalem say their choice is clear in an Israeli election next week for mayor of the holy city – they will again opt to boycott the poll....
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Effluent mars affluent Dubai’s beaches
DUBAI: Dubai’s beautiful beaches have been making headlines. What, however, remains unreported is how nuisance from washed up sewage threatens to deter tourists....
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Measuring extinction, species by species
OSLO: The Yangtze River dolphin, the Christmas Island shrew and the Venezuelan skunk frog are all victims in an alarming flood of extinctions, but how do scientists decide when such “possibly...
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Tokyoites go farming to escape urban woes
TOKYO: Tomohiro Kitazawa makes an unlikely farmer. He works neither under the sun nor in the fields, instead reporting for duty in the bustling heart of Tokyo....
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Nepali militias take law into their own hands
KATHMANDU: Fighting a decade long ‘People’s War’ for the revolutionary transformation of a feudal monarchy meant that the Maoists had to militarise Nepali society, including women and youth....
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