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Japan PM fighting for survival
TOKYO, Dec 8: Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso’s popularity has plunged to new lows close to 20 per cent, polls showed on Monday, sparking speculation that the ruling party could be pushed out of power or even break up.... 
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Thai parties locked in struggle for power
BANGKOK, Dec 8: Thailand’s opposition party on Monday called a special parliament session to prove it has the backing to form a government with its leader at the helm, but the former ruling party refused to back down....
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Climate protesters disrupt UK airport
LONDON, Dec 8: Dozens of flights were cancelled at Stansted Airport near London on Monday after activists demonstrating against global warming cut through a fence near the runway....
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Nepal Maoists threaten to quit government
KATHMANDU, Dec 8: Nepal’s Maoists on Monday threatened to quit the government in a sign of worsening political deadlock in the newly republican Himalayan nation....
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Israel delays release of Palestinian prisoners
JERUSALEM, Dec 8: Israel has decided to delay by one week the planned release of 230 Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture to western-backed President Mahmud Abbas, a senior official said on Monday....
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Muslim war veterans’ graves desecrated in France
ABLAIN-SAINT-NAZAIRE (France), Dec 8: Vandals daubed swastikas and anti-Islam slogans on 500 graves of French Muslim war veterans in an attack that President Nicolas Sarkozy condemned on Monday as “revolting.”...
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70-year-old woman gives birth to girl
NEW DELHI, Dec 8: An Indian woman has given birth to her first child at the age of 70 after receiving IVF treatment, newspapers reported her doctor as saying on Monday....
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Factions jockey for control of Somalia
NAIROBI (Kenya): Two years after being routed from Somalia’s capital, an anti-western Islamic movement is poised for a comeback in the besieged Horn of Africa nation....
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Nepal’s first female guides: sister act
SHIKHA (Nepal): Six-year-old Carisma is trying to concentrate on her homework. She has to write down five English nouns. Her brothers and their friends run around, climbing trees and shooting each other with bamboo bows and arrows....
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Has the Kyoto protocol worked?
Agreed in 1997, the Kyoto protocol aimed to cut emissions of greenhouse gases across the developed world by about five per cent compared with 1990. It came into force in 2005,...
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Lebanon losing battle to keep the lights on
BEIRUT: A candle flickering in her darkened home, Fouada Hawi rails against the daily 10-hour power cuts that Lebanon’s ailing electricity utility inflicts on her....
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