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US shouldn’t rule out attack on Iran: Israel
JERUSALEM, Nov 7: Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Friday issued a thinly veiled call for the United States not to rule out the possibility of a military strike against Iran because of its nuclear ambitions.... 
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Congo crisis may engulf region: UN
NAIROBI, Nov 7: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned on Friday at a summit of African leaders that the crisis in Democratic Republic of Congo could engulf the region....
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EU voices ‘strong concern’ over Russian missiles: Bush govt wants arms talks with Moscow
PARIS, Nov 7: The French presidency of the European Union expressed “strong concern” on Friday over a Russian plan to station new missiles near Poland’s border....
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Presidential election results
WASHINGTON, Nov 7: Here is a tally of partial results in the US presidential election, based on projections by US networks, with one state Missouri still too close to call....
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Man charged over explosives, Nazi book
LONDON, Nov 7: Police have charged a 43-year-old man with possessing explosive materials and a Nazi handbook following his arrest last week at Lowestoft railway station in Suffolk....
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Ban urges member states to pay dues
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 7: UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon rang alarm bells on Friday announcing that “the financial position of the UN remains fragile”.In a statement, Mr Ban urged member states to...
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‘Muxlim Pal’ to open soon
HELSINKI, Nov 7: Finnish-based Muxlim.com, the world’s largest Muslim online community, will launch a prototype of a Muslim-friendly virtual world, the company said on Friday....
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Fugitives arrested
LONDON, Nov 7: Spanish police have arrested two of the 10 “most-wanted” British criminal suspects hiding in southern Spain a day after an appeal for information about their whereabouts was launched, Crimestoppers said on Friday....
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‘New’ synagogue opens old wounds in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM: A synagogue newly reopened in Jerusalem’s Old City has worried Arab neighbours and Palestinian leaders who accuse Israel of using its political power to push them out and shift the city’s religious balance toward the Jews....
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Obama has to pay for eight years of Bush’s delusion
American lawyers defending six Algerians before a habeas corpus hearing in Washington this week learned some very odd things about US intelligence after 9/11. From among the millions of “raw” reports...
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How can US president-elect manage Africa’s euphoria?
KOGELO (Kenya): Within hours of Barack Obama’s election victory, Kenya sent workers to bring electricity for the first time to his late father’s rural village....
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A look at Obama’s fitness regime
MIAMI: He breezed through the rigours of a marathon 21 months on the campaign trail. On polling day he mixed it up on a basketball court....
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Tutsi rebels accused of executing civilians
RUTSHURU: Tutsi rebels in eastern Congo have been accused of summarily killing civilians as they seized a town that had been the stronghold of Hutu militias, and forcing tens of thousands of people from their homes....
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