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150 protesters held in Russia
MOSCOW: Russian authorities arrested on Sunday at least 150 people taking part in opposition demonstrations in Moscow and St Petersburg organised by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, police said.... 
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Strong Somalia needed to defeat pirates: France
MANAMA, Dec 14: Piracy in the Gulf of Aden will only be defeated by a strong government in Somalia, the commander of the French naval operation in the Indian Ocean said on Sunday....
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Court tells Bangladeshi parents to free daughter
DHAKA, Dec 14: A Bangladeshi doctor whose parents were accused of holding her captive in the capital Dhaka for more than four months is free to return to her home in Britain, a court ruled on Sunday....
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Somali PM sacked
BAIDOA (Somalia), Dec 14: Somalia’s President Abdullahi Yusuf sacked his prime minister on Sunday after they disagreed on a new cabinet demanded by donors, throwing his western-backed interim government into disarray....
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Turkmen have little choice in polls for parliament
ASHGABAT, Dec 14: More than two million Turkmen voted on Sunday in a snap parliamentary election touted by the government as a step towards democracy but condemned by critics as a sham....
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China, Taiwan start direct air, postal link today
BEIJING: Political rivals China and Taiwan will begin direct air, sea transport and postal services on Monday for the first time since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949.China...
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Wealth of richest Arabs plummets by $25bn
DUBAI: The wealth of the richest Arabs plunged in 2008, with Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the richest of all, seeing his investments shrivel nearly 20 per cent, according to a list published in Dubai on Sunday....
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15 Indians on hunger strike in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR: Fifteen ethnic Indians launched a hunger strike in Malaysia on Sunday to demand the abolition of a tough security law which the government says is needed to combat terrorism, organisers said....
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Women in Baghdad take to the road again
BAGHDAD: The last time Manal Hakim was in the driving seat, she was pistol-whipped by armed Islamists....
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Afghanistan: more troops will not help
WITH each death in Afghanistan — civilian and military — it becomes more of a commonplace to say this is a war that can’t be won....
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Nanotech sensor can detect cancer-causing toxins
CHICAGO: US scientists have developed a tiny sensor that can detect small amounts of cancer-causing toxins or trace the effectiveness of cancer drugs inside living cells....
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Thai unrest a blow for democracy in region
BANGKOK: Lawless protests that shuttered Thailand’s airports will be seen by authoritarian regimes in an increasingly undemocratic Southeast Asia as a vindication of their own iron rule, analysts say....
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EU accused of leaving Congo in the lurch
THE European Union’s refusal to send in soldiers to bolster UN troops in eastern Congo could have scuppered the last chance of averting a humanitarian disaster, a leaked letter from the Secretary General reveals....
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