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Thai PM declares emergency to clear airports
BANGKOK, Nov 27: Thailand’s embattled premier on Thursday declared a state of emergency at Bangkok’s main airports, seeking to clear them of protesters as the country’s political crisis set off rumours of a coup.... 
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Navy can strike well beyond its coast: Iran
TEHRAN, Nov 27: Iran’s navy could strike an enemy well beyond its shores and as far away as Bab al-Mandab, the southern entrance to the Red Sea that leads to the Suez Canal, an Iranian naval commander said on Thursday....
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Bush, Obama condemn Mumbai attacks
WASHINGTON, Nov 27: US President George Bush and President-elect Barack Obama on Thursday condemned the deadly attacks in Mumbai that killed more than 120 people and offered help to Indian authorities....
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LTTE leader praises support extended by Tamils in India
COLOMBO, Nov 27: Tamil Tigers leader Velupillai Prabhakaran has praised the support extended by the people of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu for the Tamil struggle in Sri Lanka, declared...
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18 Al Qaeda women give up, says US
BAGHDAD, Nov 27: Eighteen women Al Qaeda fighters in northern Iraq turned themselves in to US forces, the US military said on Thursday....
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Turban not allowed on Sikh’s driving licence
STRASBOURG (France), Nov 27: The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday dismissed a case brought by a French Sikh man who wanted to wear a turban on his driving licence photograph in breach of French rules.Shingara...
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Peace mission
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 27: Malaysia will pullout its peacekeepers from the southern Philippines this month, the foreign minister said on Thursday.—AP...
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Olmert under pressure to quit
JERUSALEM, Nov 27: Israel’s acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert faced pressure from his own party on Thursday to step down following a decision to indict him in one of several graft cases over which police questioned him....
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Blast kills 4 near US embassy in Kabul
KABUL, Nov 27: A suicide bomber killed four people near the US embassy in Kabul on Thursday, underscoring Afghanistan’s deteriorating security, but a UN Security Council delegation said the situation was not out of control....
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Malaysian woman jailed for scalding maid
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 27: A Malaysian court sentenced a woman on Thursday to 18 years in jail for scalding her Indonesian maid with a hot iron in a case that sparked outrage over the treatment of Indonesian workers....
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New York on terror alert
NEW YORK, Nov 27: The New York City was placed on high security alert on Thursday, the day about 3.5 million people from all parts of United States converge in the city to witness the traditional Macy’s thanksgiving day parade....
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Three shot dead in North Ossetia
VLADIKAVKAZ (Russia), Nov 27: Three people were killed in an apparent criminal shoot-out on Thursday in the capital of Russia’s North Ossetia province, near the Georgian rebel region of South Ossetia, officials said....
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Three killed in Yemen bus blast
SANAA, Nov 27: Three people were killed and four wounded on Thursday when a bomb ripped through a minibus at a central bus station in Sanaa, a police official said....
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Scientists track genetic changes in leukaemia
WASHINGTON, Nov 27: Distinctive genetic changes occur in the cancer cells that trigger relapse in patients with the most common type of childhood cancer, according to a study that may offer new hope for beating the disease....
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Mumbai mourns attacks on beloved icons Taj and Leo’s
MUMBAI: In the harsh morning light there was no escaping the truth: the Taj Mahal Hotel, Mumbai’s iconic luxury hotel, was hurting after gunmen laid siege to it....
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Guinea-Bissau unrest highlights army’s role
BISSAU: In coup-prone Guinea-Bissau, shaken this weekend by an attack by mutineering soldiers of the president’s residence which left two people dead, the army is at once the backbone of the state and a destabilising factor....
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Army, king hold no keys to Thailand’s impasse
BANGKOK: In previous crises, Thailand has tended to look to its two most powerful institutions, the palace or the army, to cut the political Gordian knot....
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Georgia’s NATO hopes in tatters
TBILISI: Georgia’s hopes of joining the NATO military alliance are in tatters following its disastrous war with Russia and flagging US support for its membership bid, analysts said on Thursday....
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Fossil shows how turtle got its shell
The unearthing of a 220m-year-old fossil in China has solved the enduring mystery of how the turtle got its shell....
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