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Turkey calls for barring Israel from UN
ANKARA, Jan 16: Turkey’s prime minister on Friday said Israel should be barred from the United Nations while it ignores the body’s calls to stop fighting in Gaza.“How... 
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Russia plans naval bases in Libya, Syria and Yemen
MOSCOW, Jan 16: Russia has decided to establish naval bases in Libya, Syria and Yemen within a few years, Itar-Tass news agency quoted military officials as saying on Friday, in a sign of Moscow’s growing foreign policy ambitions....
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PLO accuses Qatar of exploiting invasion
RAMALLAH, Jan 16: A senior West Bank Palestinian official slammed Qatar''s emir on Friday for hosting an emergency Arab summit on the Gaza war, accusing him of using Palestinian “blood” for political gain....
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US, Israel sign pact to stem Gaza ‘arms smuggling’
WASHINGTON, Jan 16: The United States and Israel signed an accord on Friday aimed at stopping, as the latter puts it, the “smuggling of weapons into the Gaza Strip _ a...
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Iranian jailed over British book scam
LONDON, Jan 16: A wealthy Iranian businessman was jailed for two years on Friday for stealing pages from rare books in Britain’s top libraries to improve his own collection....
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Concert by pro-Israel singer scrapped in Mauritius
PORT-LOUIS, Jan 16: A concert in Mauritius featuring French Jewish singer Enrico Macias has been cancelled because he took part in a pro-Israel rally, the organiser announced on Friday....
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Man wearing Jewish symbol stabbed
PARIS, Jan 16: Masked thieves who on Thursday attacked a young man east of Paris to steal his car repeatedly stabbed him after noticing he was wearing a Jewish symbol....
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South Korea releases Indian sailors
SEOUL, Jan 16: South Korea’s top court said on Friday it has granted bail to the Indian captain and chief officer of a Hong Kong supertanker who were jailed last month over the country’s worst oil spill....
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Rare banknote to be sold at HK auction
HONG KONG, Jan 16: An extremely rare 1,000 Hong Kong dollar ($128) banknote, a legacy of British rule in the city, was set to fetch up to 80,000 Hong Kong dollars at auction, a report said on Friday.—AFP...
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Genetic testing: do you really want to know?
PARIS: Once impenetrable, the individual genetic code is becoming an open book, thanks to kits that scan for genes linked to scores of traits and diseases, from cancer and baldness to infertility and memory loss....
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Sharks, not humans, most at risk in ocean
SYDNEY: Three shark attacks in Australia in two days this week sparked a global media frenzy of “Jaws” proportions, but sharks are more at risk in the ocean than humans with man killing millions of sharks each year....
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Cambodia sees rise of superstition
PHNOM PENH: Pang Nop was pedalling his bicycle home through a light drizzle when he paused to pick up some stones for his slingshot. As he did, the sky flashed and he fell to the ground, dead....
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Sudan fears US military action over Darfur
The government in Sudan is increasingly fearful the incoming US administration will resort to military intervention to end the six-year-old crisis in Darfur that has killed up to 200,000 people and left 2.7...
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Making home computers save energy
LONDON: Internet users got their ethernet cables in a twist this week when they learned that just two Google searches could emit as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as boiling enough water for a cup of tea....
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