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US plans to sign N-deal with UAE soon
WASHINGTON, Dec 12: US President George Bush’s administration plans to sign a nuclear cooperation deal with the United Arab Emirates, the first such agreement with a Middle East country, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.... 
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Russian forces withdraw from Georgia village
TBILISI, Dec 12: Russian forces have withdrawn from a disputed village near the rebel South Ossetia region that Georgia had claimed was being occupied in violation of a ceasefire agreement, Georgian police said on Friday....
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Greek police fight street battles with protesters
ATHENS, Dec 12: Greek police fought street battles Friday with youths who hurled petrol bombs and stones amid new demonstrations over the police killing of a schoolboy....
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Economic crisis sparks strike, protest in Italy
ROME, Dec 12: Hundreds of thousands of people braved rainy weather across Italy on Friday in support of a nationwide strike to protest the government’s handling of the country’s economic crisis....
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No more fuel shipments to N. Korea: US
WASHINGTON, Dec 12: The United States said on Friday that there would be no more fuel aid shipments to energy-strapped North Korea until Pyongyang agrees to a written plan to verify its nuclear disarmament....
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Homelessness, hunger on rise in US cities
WASHINGTON, Dec 12: Homelessness and hunger increased in an overwhelming majority of 25 US cities in the past year, driven by the foreclosure crisis and rising unemployment, a survey showed on Friday....
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Moros agree to stop using child soldiers: UN
MANILA, Dec 12: The Philippines’ main Muslim separatist group has agreed to stop recruiting child soldiers and return those in its ranks to civilian life, a United Nations official said on Friday....
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2,000-year-old brain found in Britain
LONDON: Archaeologists have unearthed a human brain in northern England that dates back to the Iron Age, York University officials said on Friday....
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Europe rights chief slams Cyprus vice trade
STRASBOURG: The Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner slammed Cyprus for permitting a flourishing trade in young foreign women imported for sex in the island’s cabarets, in a report issued on Friday....
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Darfur clashes claim 75 lives
KHARTOUM: Seventy-five people, including six policemen, were killed in separate tribal clashes in south Darfur on Friday, security officials and tribal sources said....
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Pin-up model Bettie Page dies
LOS ANGELES: Bettie Page, the pin-up model whose seductive photographs in magazines titillated and outraged Americans in the 1950s, has died, her agent said. She was 85....
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Scandal has risk, opportunity for Obama
WASHINGTON: A major corruption scandal in President-elect Barack Obama’s home state of Illinois is an unwelcome opportunity for him to prove he can manage a crisis that threatens to detract from...
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Back to Portugal, where once there was revolution in the air
Western countries can be divided into those who fear an Islamic takeover (France, Britain, Germany, the United States) and those who like boasting that they threw the Muslims out of their lands (Serbia, Spain and Portugal)....
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Election run-off keeps Ghana on democratic track
ACCRA: Ghana faces a tense runoff election to find a new president, but most analysts say the failure of either of the frontrunners to win in the first round may be good for the African nation....
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He not only reigns, he rules
A wise Western diplomat, commenting on how much Thailand has changed, expressed the common view of the current crisis that this was one that the revered king, Bhumibol Adulyadej, could not...
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