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Cuba offers direct talks to Obama
HAVANA, Jan 3: Communist Cuba’s President Raul Castro has offered to talk directly “without intermediaries” and on equal terms with incoming US president Barack Obama, who has said he would consider direct dialogue.... 
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Medvedev buys tea for Putin
MOSCOW, Jan 3: For the last months, Kremlin watchers have intensely examined the burning question — who actually runs Russia? President Dmitry Medvedev or Prime Minister Vladimir Putin?...
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S. Korean govt uses force to end parliament sit-in
SEOUL, Jan 3: Opposition lawmakers and security guards scuffled on Saturday as authorities tried to clear the legislators from parliament, where they have been camped out for nine days in a standoff with President Lee Myung-bak’s ruling party....
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Australia rejects US request: Gitmo detainees
SYDNEY, Jan 3: Australia Saturday formally rejected a US request to help resettle former inmates of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility amid warnings against taking in freed ‘war on terror’ detainees....
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Saudi mufti slams pro-Gaza protests
RIYADH, Jan 3: A top Saudi cleric and justice official has branded protests in support of Gaza’s Palestinians as corrupt, saying that they only serve to foment anger and aggression, a newspaper reported on Saturday....
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John Atta-Mills elected Ghana’s president
ACCRA, Jan 3: John Atta-Mills, 64, will be the next leader of Ghana, the electoral commission declared on Saturday as it announced the outcome of a presidential run-off in the West African nation....
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Immigrants to take over another Swiss church
ZURICH, Jan 3: About 200 illegal immigrants occupying a downtown Zurich church for the past two weeks will move their protest to another one, an aid group said on Saturday....
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No show of solidarity from West Bank
RAMALLAH: One cold morning this week a group of two dozen protesters walked through Ramallah carrying flags and singing quietly as they reached the steps of the Palestinian parliament building....
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The Tories hold all the cards this year
Will 2009 be the year in which David Cameron finally “seals the deal” with the British electorate? After Gordon Brown’s remarkable recovery in the polls towards the end of 2008, Tory...
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Paradise lost on Maldives’ rubbish island
It may be known as a tropical paradise, an archipelago of 1,200 coral islands in the Indian Ocean. But the traditional image of the Maldives hides a dirty secret: the world’s biggest rubbish island....
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Row over plan to move Descartes’ skull
PARIS: He was the philosopher who posited the separation of mind and body – and who, posthumously, must be very glad he did. Ever since his death Rene Descartes’s corpse has...
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How EU ‘changed’ Sarkozy
President Nicolas Sarkozy, modest as ever, claims to have “changed Europe” during his six months in the EU presidency. He also says, more intriguingly, that Europe has “changed” him....
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