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Putin warns against bid to destabilise Russia
MOSCOW, Dec 20: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned on Saturday that any attempt to destabilise Russia would be firmly dealt with as the country marked its national day honouring the security services.... 
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UAE to buy US missiles worth $3.3bn, says paper
DUBAI, Dec 20: The United Arab Emirates has signed a $3.3 billion deal to buy missiles from US firm Raytheon, a newspaper reported on Saturday....
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Goa year-end beach parties banned
PANAJI (India), Dec 20: Beach parties in the Indian resort state of Goa are to be banned over the Christmas and New Year because of security fears following the Mumbai attacks, the authorities here said on Saturday....
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Taliban compared to Nazis
LONDON, Dec 20: British Defence Secretary John Hutton compared the Taliban and Al Qaeda to the Nazis and said western forces faced a long fight to defeat insurgents in Afghanistan, in an interview on Saturday....
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50,000 troops deployed in BD ahead of polls
DHAKA, Dec 20: Bangladesh has deployed nearly 50,000 troops across the country to avert pre-poll violence ahead of landmark elections on December 29 to restore democracy, officials said on Saturday....
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‘UK varsities no hotbeds of Muslim extremists’
LONDON, Dec 20: British universities are not hotbeds of so-called “Islamic radicalism” as alleged by the government, a new study has found....
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How the absence of one tiny word sowed the seeds of a catastrophe
A nit-picker this week. And given the fact we’re all remembering human rights, the Palestinians come to mind since they have precious few of them, and the Israelis because they have the luxury of a lot of them....
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Egypt: no country for old maids
CAIRO: Exasperated by the pressures of a society obsessed with marriage and the production of children, a young Egyptian woman has come to the rescue of her country’s stigmatised spinsters....
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Close encounter with a hurricane
BANES: Coffee was ready, documents and files had been removed to a safe place, communications equipment was switched off and the optical system was secured. With nothing left to do but wait, Cuban lighthouse keeper Miguel Chacón climbed the 218 stairs to the tower of the Cape Lucrecia lighthouse and looked out to sea...
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A strange sympathy
When I tell ordinary British people that I came to the UK from Zimbabwe to seek asylum because of Robert Mugabe’s government, they are always sympathetic....
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In Germany, spate of deaths fuels row over assisted suicide
BERLIN: Frieda Felger was 97 when she committed suicide, one of a growing number of elderly Germans choosing to kill themselves and whose case is fuelling debate about whether they should be helped to die....
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