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Tehran smashes ‘Israel-linked spy network’
TEHRAN, Nov 24: Iran announced on Monday it had broken up a spy network linked to arch-enemy Israel’s intelligence service Mossad, accusing it of gathering information on Iranian nuclear and military programmes.... 
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US spied on Blair, ex-Iraqi president: Operator tells TV
NEW YORK, Nov 24: US intelligence services snooped on the private lives of two of America’s most important allies: former British prime minister Tony Blair and Iraq’s first interim president, Ghazi...
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Bomb attacks claim 19 lives in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Nov 24: A bomb blast killed 13 female government employees on a bus on their way to work in eastern Baghdad on Monday, and a female suicide bomber killed five people outside Baghdad’s Green Zone compound, police said....
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Germany bristles at talk of link to Kosovo bomb attacks
BERLIN, Nov 24: The idea that Germany might somehow be linked to terrorist attacks abroad was ludicrous, a government spokesman said on Monday, reacting to reports that three German spies were...
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Anti-govt protesters paralyse Bangkok
BANGKOK, Nov 24: Thousands of Thai protesters forced parliament to close and surrounded the prime minister’s makeshift offices at an old airport on Monday, upping the stakes in a six-month standoff with the government....
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N. Korea to stop cross-border rail service
SEOUL, Nov 24: North Korea said on Monday it would suspend a historic cross-border railway service from next week and restrict other frontier crossings in protest at what it called South Korea’s policy of confrontation....
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Putin urges Obama to halt missile shield plan
SAINT PETERSBURG, Nov 24: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday urged US president-elect Barack Obama to drop the planned US missile shield in Eastern Europe, warning of an “adequate response” from Moscow....
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Hezbollah now three times stronger than in ’06 war: Israel
JERUSALEM, Nov 24: Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak told parliament on Monday that the militant group Hezbollah is three times stronger now than it was during the 2006 Lebanon war....
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Kurdish govt allowed to buy arms
BAGHDAD, Nov 24: The Iraqi government has no objection to semi-autonomous Kurdish authorities purchasing weapons and ammunition to arm their security forces, but it wants to be informed, a government spokesman said on Monday....
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Zimbabwe may soon collapse: Annan, Carter
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 24: Zimbabwe could collapse within months due to its political and economic crisis, South Africa’s ruling party leader said on Monday, citing former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan and other prominent figures....
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McCain to see pre-poll situation in BD
DHAKA, Nov 24: Three senior US senators, including defeated presidential candidate John McCain, will visit Bangladesh early next month to meet its leaders ahead of a long-delayed vote, a US official said on Monday....
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South Korea builds city from sea at wetland’s expense
BUAN (South Korea): South Korea is betting a multi-billion dollar land reclamation project about seven times the size of Manhattan will lift the economy but environmentalists say it could be one of the country’s biggest ecological blunders....
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Secret police files haunt Albanians
TIRANA: Almost two decades after communism, Albanians live in both fear and curiosity about secret police files on civilians that have been kept shut tight since the fall of the old regime....
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Socialist debacle hands Sarkozy easy ride
PARIS: French President Nicolas Sarkozy has emerged as the main winner from the Socialist Party’s disastrous leadership ballot that has left the opposition facing yet more years in the political wilderness....
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Finds that made Basques proud are fake
MADRID: It was hailed as an archaeological discovery of global importance showing, among other things, the oldest representation of Christ on the cross and proof that Egyptian influences had survived deep in Roman Spain....
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Alienation of young Tibetans
LONDON: In a video blog from Dharamsala in northern India, where last week 500 Tibetans gathered to discuss the future of the struggle, two members of the radical Students for a Free Tibet explained their position....
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Obama sets the literary agenda
LONDON: Every political earthquake has its literary aftershocks. Gorbachev’s glasnost and the collapse of the Soviet Union dissolved the dissident tradition made famous by Solzhenitsyn. The end of the Cold War also disoriented another world class genre, the British spy thriller....
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