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Iran signals nuclear work expansion
TEHRAN, Nov 26: Iran is now running 5,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges, a senior official said on Wednesday, signalling an expansion of work the West fears is aimed at making nuclear weapons.... 
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Fall of LTTE headquarters imminent, says government
COLOMBO, Nov 26: The Sri Lankan army was knocking at the gates of the LTTE’s capital of Kiilnochchi on Wednesday, a day before the Tamil Tiger chieftain Velupillai Prabhakaran was due...
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Floods claim 32 lives in India
CHENNAI, Nov 26: At least 32 people have died in floods caused by a tropical storm in southern India and thousands more have been evacuated to higher ground, officials said on Wednesday....
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Iraq to hold referendum on military pact with US
BAGHDAD, Nov 26: Iraq plans to hold a July referendum on a controversial military pact allowing US troops to remain for another three years that parliament is expected to adopt on Thursday in a delayed vote....
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100 states plan to sign treaty to ban cluster bombs
OSLO, Nov 26: Around 100 governments are expected to sign a treaty in Norway next week banning cluster munitions that have killed and maimed tens of thousands of people....
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$2.6 billion ‘pyramid’ scam busted in S. Korea
SEOUL, Nov 26: Police said on Wednesday they have busted South Korea’s biggest-ever “pyramid” financial scam involving nearly $2.6 billion collected from tens of thousands of investors....
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Al Qaeda link: Japanese court clears Bangladeshi
TOKYO, Nov 26: A Bangladeshi man expressed relief on Wednesday after Japan’s top court cleared him of links to the Al-Qaeda terrorist network and ordered a newspaper to pay him 23,000 dollars in compensation....
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‘Nobody supports the Taliban, but people hate the government’
THE collapse of Afghanistan is closer than the world believes. Kandahar is in Taliban hands – all but a square mile at the centre of the city – and the first Taliban checkpoints are scarcely 15 miles from Kabul....
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Taliban threaten to attack western states
MADRID, Nov 26: The Taliban have threatened to stage attacks on five western countries deploying troops in Afghanistan in a video discovered by Spanish security forces, a local radio station said Wednesday....
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Russian mayor shot dead
VLADIKAVKAZ (Russia), Nov 26: The mayor of one of the biggest cities in Russia’s turbulent North Caucasus region died from his wounds on Wednesday after gunmen attacked him in the street, prosecutors said....
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US troops rammed Russian diplomats’ car in Iraq
MOSCOW: US troops “intentionally” rammed a car transporting Russian diplomatic personnel in Baghdad, a Russian foreign ministry official told ITAR-TASS news agency on Wednesday....
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Father admits killing two young sons
LONDON: A man admitted on Wednesday murdering his two young sons, whose bodies were found stabbed to death in a car in Scotland....
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Obama recalls fondness for Indonesian food
JAKARTA: US president-elect Barack Obama, who spent part of his childhood in Jakarta, told Indonesia’s leader he would like to visit the Southeast Asian nation again and recalled a taste for local food....
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Air traffic controllers disrupt Athens flights
ATHENS: Athens flights were disrupted on Wednesday after air traffic controllers walked off the job for three hours, joining a Greek public sector walkout over the high cost of living and the government’s unpopular economic policies....
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Greece degrading, abusing migrants
ATHENS: Greece is violating international law by rounding up asylum seekers from countries such as Iraq, holding them in degrading conditions and secretly expelling them across the border into Turkey, a rights group said on Wednesday....
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Serving dinner to turkeys – not turkey dinner – at Thanksgiving
POOLESVILLE (Maryland): Eliot is a handsome beast – and very lucky, too, considering he’s a turkey and Thanksgiving, Americans’ favourite holidays, is rolling around again on Thursday....
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Algeria opposition unlikely to unite & bring change
ALGIERS: Divisions in Algeria’s opposition mean a third five-year term at the helm of OPEC member Algeria looks to be President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s for the asking with the backing of the ruling elite....
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Obama picks greybeards as wartime cabinet
WASHINGTON: Barack Obama’s campaign credo: change is good. President-elect Barack Obama’s credo: when it comes to war and peace, maybe wisdom is better....
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10-year-old battle-scarred bullfighter
LIMA: Michelito is just like any other child who likes playing the guitar, surfing the Internet and watching Spiderman, but at just 10 years old, he is also a star bullfighter and has already killed 160 calves....
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Honeybee crisis threatens English fruit farmers
LONDON: Where in the United States fruit farmers pay to have bees trucked thousands of miles to pollinate their crops and in parts of China, humans with feather dusters have taken on the task, in Britain most bees go nature’s way....
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