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UN council okays dispatch of 3,000 troops to Congo
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 20: The UN Security Council voted unanimously on Thursday to send some 3,000 additional UN peacekeepers to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to help prevent a new war in the country''s east.... 
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Colombo puts the squeeze on Tamil Tigers’ mini-state
COLOMBO, Nov 20: Sri Lanka''s military said on Thursday it smashed a key Tamil Tiger defence line in the island''s far north and seized an airfield, putting new pressure on the shrinking jungle mini-state....
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Russia, India plan naval manoeuvres
MOSCOW, Nov 20: The Russian and Indian navies will take part in joint manoeuvres in the Indian Ocean in January, the RIA Novosti news agency quoted a Russian Pacific fleet naval spokesman as saying....
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Sudan govt, Darfur rebels fight deadly clashes
KHARTOUM, Nov 20: Sudanese troops and regional rebels fought deadly clashes in northern Darfur on Thursday, accusing each other of mounting bloody attacks to torpedo a unilateral government ceasefire....
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Jewish settlers desecrate mosque, graves
HEBRON, Nov 20: Jewish settlers angry at an Israeli court order for their eviction from a house in Hebron desecrated a mosque and tombs in the flashpoint West Bank City before dawn on Thursday, witnesses said....
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Search for Copernicus’s tomb is over
WARSAW, Nov 20: DNA studies on two strands of hair and a tooth have ended a centuries old hunt for the tomb Nicolas Copernicus, the 16th century astronomer who shocked the...
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25 Maoists held in crackdown: Orissa recruits tribesmen to fight rebels
RANCHI/BHUBANESWAR Nov 20: Police had busted two jungle hideouts of Maoist rebels in eastern India and arrested about 24 guerrillas, some apparently plotting landmine attacks on government forces, officials said on Thursday....
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Gurkhas rally outside British parliament
LONDON, Nov 20: Hundreds of Gurkha veterans rallied outside Britain''s Houses of Parliament on Thursday and were due to hand in a petition at Downing Street seeking the right to settle here....
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Anti-govt protesters attacked outside Thai PM’s office
BANGKOK, Nov 20: The leader of a long-running anti-government street movement in Thailand called for a major rally on Sunday to oust the “murderous” administration after one of its supporters was killed in a grenade attack....
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Boy thrown under train for writing love letter
PATNA, Nov 20: A teenage Indian boy was thrashed, paraded through the streets with his head shaved and then thrown under a train for daring to write a love letter to a girl from a different caste, police said on Thursday....
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Michael Jackson to give evidence in London court
LONDON, Nov 20: Pop megastar Michael Jackson would testify in person at London’s High Court next week against allegations that he owes a Bahraini prince seven million dollars, his lawyer said on Thursday....
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Egyptian minister says ‘no’ to face veil
CAIRO, Nov 20: The Egyptian ministry for religious endowments has weighed into the debate on whether a Muslim woman should wear a face veil with a book arguing that it is not Islamic, a newspaper reported on Thursday....
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Researchers stumble upon new penguin species
SYDNEY, Nov 20: Researchers have stumbled upon the remains of a previously unknown species of penguin that pre-dates the Polynesian settlement of New Zealand nearly half a century ago....
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US officials score poorly in history, civics test
WASHINGTON, Nov 20: US elected officials scored abysmally on a test measuring their civic knowledge, with an average grade of just 44 per cent, the group that organized the exam said on Thursday....
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Evidence of vast frozen water reserves on Mars
WASHINGTON, Nov 20: NASA scientists have discovered enormous underground reservoirs of frozen water on Mars, away from its polar caps, in the latest sign that life might be sustainable on the Red planet....
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China’s online casino boss sent to jail
BEIJING, Nov 20: A Chinese court jailed a Hong Kong man for running many illegal online casinos and fined him $2.9 million in what is believed to be the biggest case of its kind in China....
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Nobel laureates call for education in conflict zones
LONDON, Nov 20: Nobel Peace Prize winners called on governments on Thursday to act to ensure that millions of children in war zones can go to school....
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Yemen powerless to combat Somali piracy
BEIRUT: Somali pirates preying on shipping in the Gulf of Aden have struck most often off the coast of Yemen, an unstable, impoverished Arab state that has few resources to tackle the maritime scourge....
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Dubai cracks down on expats sharing homes to cut costs
DUBAI: Expatriates who share homes in the booming emirate of Dubai to split soaring rental costs face eviction amid a crackdown by the municipality which deems the practice of house-sharing a health hazard....
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Saudi women find refuge from violence
JEDDAH: Shattered, burned and bruised, Azza went to the police four times before the authorities allowed her to leave her abusive husband and move into a shelter....
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Brazil to use radar to save Amazon tribes
RIO DE JANEIRO: The Brazilian government has said it will employ heat-seeking radar in a last-ditch attempt to save the country’s remaining groups of isolated Indians....
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Afghanistan’s disabled: lives broken by conflict
KABUL: Waheeda''s arms were blown off in a suicide attack in the Afghan capital a few years ago. Flesh was also torn from one of her legs and she lost much of her vision....
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Exhibition serves as bridge to Babylon
LONDON: The memory of Babylon is like the remains of a ziggurat. Hidden below ground level lay almost all the millennia of the Mesopotamian empires, a gigantic span of human history...
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