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Only half of Iraqi voters turn out for polls
BAGHDAD, Feb 1: Just over half of Iraq’s voters turned out for provincial elections that were hailed as a political milestone for the future of the war-torn nation, officials said on Sunday.... 
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Korean peninsula on brink of war, warns North
SEOUL, Feb 1: North Korea warned on Sunday that the downward spiral of relations with the South has pushed the peninsula to the brink of war, two days after it said it was scrapping all pacts with its rich capitalist neighbour....
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23 die in Russia’s nursing home fire
MOSCOW, Feb 1: A nursing home fire in northwestern Russia has killed at least 23 people, and officials said local authorities were slow to report the blaze....
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Lanka’s warning to diplomats, CNN and BBC
COLOMBO, Feb 1: Sri Lanka warned western diplomats, foreign journalists and aid groups on Sunday that they would be “chased” out of the country if they appear to favour the Tamil Tiger rebels....
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UN urges Somali president to reach out to all parties
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 1: UN Secretary-General urged President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed and the new Somali Government on Sunday to reach out to all Somali people and parties, including those who were still outside of the Djibouti process....
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Leftist forum ends in Amazon
BELEM (Brazil), Feb 1: The world’s biggest gathering of leftist activists ended on Sunday, after six days of discussions and protests that participants said showed there was an alternative to a crumbling global capitalist system....
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US envoy meets Saudi king
RIYADH, Feb 1: US Middle East envoy George Mitchell on Sunday met Saudi King Abdullah on the last leg of a Middle East tour aimed at reviving the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, officials said....
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India wary of Obama’s South Asia focus
NEW DELHI: With US President Barack Obama still in the early days of his presidency, India is keeping a wary eye on policy changes that could irritate what has become a key strategic relationship....
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Gaps in treaties may lead to trade war
WASHINGTON: The world may be on the brink of a gentler kind of trade war....
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Japan ‘manga man’ revives story-telling with a twist
TOKYO: Rikimaru Toho doesn’t mind being stared at as long as he can hold the gaze of passers-by long enough to entice them to stop and sit down for an unusual show: a comic book reading....
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‘Octuplets mom obsessed with having children’
LOS ANGELES: The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilisation, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said....
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