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Rebels fight Indian troops as violence mars polls
RAIPUR, Nov 14: Indian troops battled Maoist rebels in the east of the country on Friday as violence marred the start of a string of key state elections seen as a popularity test for the ruling party.... 
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Obama aide apologises for father’s anti-Arab remark
WASHINGTON, Nov 14: Barack Obama’s new chief of staff on Friday apologised to a US organisation defending Arab rights after his father made derogatory anti-Arab comments to a major Israeli daily....
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Wildfire rages in California celebrity enclave
MONTECITO (California), Nov 14: A wind-driven brush fire in Southern California has gutted scores of luxury homes and injured 13 people in the seaside celebrity enclave of Montecito, officials said on Friday....
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UN halts food aid in Gaza strip: Rockets rain on Israeli city
GAZA CITY, Nov 14:Violence flared again around Gaza on Friday, wounding two militants and an Israeli woman and putting a five-month-old truce in jeopardy as UN food handouts to the Hamas-ruled strip ground to a halt....
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Israel approved new settlements: report
JERUSALEM, Nov 14: Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak approved dozens of construction projects in Jewish settlements in the West Bank in recent months despite international commitments to freeze such activity, the Haaretz daily said on Friday....
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US to expand visa-free entry
BRUSSELS, Nov 14: The United States wants to increase the number of countries enjoying visa-free entry after opening the door to citizens from six new European Union countries and South Korea, US officials said on Friday....
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No end to centuries of savagery in Afghanistan
Back in Afghanistan, the mind turns to the small matter of savagery. Not the routine cruelty of war but the deliberate inhumanity with which we behave....
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El Salvador’s softened rebels see chance of power
SUCHITOTO (El Salvador): Belky Hernandez was three days old when US-backed government troops shot dead her mother, a Marxist guerrilla, in a forest in war-ravaged El Salvador....
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First optical photos of exoplanet
WASHINGTON: After an eight-year quest for images, a US astronomer using a camera aboard the Hubble space telescope has snapped the first picture of a planet outside our solar system....
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Vatican rejects ‘right to die’
ROME: The Vatican on Friday firmly condemned an Italian court decision allowing a father to remove his comatose daughter from life support, saying “the right to die does not exist.”...
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Of 1970s clichés and hairstyles
This year has seen the appearance of ferociously exact, even minimalist films about European terrorism, in which visual artistry is placed provocatively to the fore: movies closer to installation than drama....
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