VIENNA, Nov 26: The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Thursday that his probe of allegations that Iran tried to make nuclear arms is at “a

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ance and ease international concerns that it may be using a civilian nuclear program as a cover for plans to make weapons.

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NEW DELHI, Nov 26: The Mumbai attacks have spawned books, films, paintings and even comics as India’s creative talents look to cash in on an event still fresh

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LONDON, Nov 26: Prime Minister Gordon Brown reaffirmed British support for India’s counter-terrorism efforts on Thursday as he marked the first anniversary of

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MANILA, Nov 26: Philippine police filed murder charges on Thursday against the main suspect in the massacre of 57 people in the south of the country this week

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OSLO: Norway accused Tehran on Thursday of confiscating the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to human rights campaigner Shirin Ebadi in 2003 and said freedom of

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PORT VILA: More than 300 villagers were evacuated in the Pacific nation of Vanuatu on Thursday after an erupting volcano started spewing smoke and ash onto

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SEOUL: South Korean soldiers and police executed nearly 5,000 citizens during the early months of the 1950-53 Korean War, fearing they could collaborate with

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LONDON: A fierce fire cut through apartment blocks and a construction site in southeast London early on Thursday, spreading across a road and forcing the

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LONDON, Nov 26: Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice raised the issue of Iraq with the UK hours after the Sept 11 attacks, Britain’s former ambassador

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RIYADH: Nine Saudi soldiers are missing after clashes between the country’s forces and Yemeni rebels along the border between the two countries, the Saudi

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SYDNEY, Nov 26: An Australian movie highlighting the desperate state of many Aboriginal communities won top prize at the third annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards

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GENEVA, Nov 26: Roman Polanski will be placed under house arrest at his chalet in a luxury ski resort and made to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet after

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NEW DELHI, Nov 26: More than two months after Delhi authorities launched mobile courts to convict and remove beggars from the capital’s streets, the

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BUDAPEST: A student at the Scientific University of Pecs in southern Hungary opened fire on his classmates on Thursday, killing one person and wounding three,

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By Patricia Velez & Terry Wade
LIMA: President Alan Garcia’s push for a referendum to scrap compulsory voting in Peru would likely help his APRA party and hurt smaller ones – including the

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By Michael Mainville
BAKU: On a windswept hilltop looking down at the Azerbaijani capital Baku, Turkish flags flutter over a monument that testifies to decades of close ties between

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By Patrice Novotny
TOKYO: There are many reasons why Japan’s population is headed for a sharp decline, but one of them is that for working women giving birth usually spells the

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By Tom Brown
MIAMI: It’s a crime so profitable that even dead people are in on the act.

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By Andrew Hammond
DUBAI: Dubai’s debt troubles have exposed the fallacy of its once much-vaunted “model” of raising shining cities in the desert with foreign residents, finance

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WASHINGTON, Nov 25: President Barack Obama will commit the United States to a goal of substantial cuts in greenhouse gas pollution over the next decade when he

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By Our Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Nov 25: US President Barack Obama will announce his new strategy for the Pak-Afghan region on Tuesday from the US Military Academy at West Point,

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MANILA, Nov 25: The Philippines’ ruling coalition on Wednesday expelled the suspected mastermind of a political massacre that claimed at least 57 lives, as well

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TEHRAN, Nov 25: Iranian authorities have arrested seven alleged members of the militant group Jundallah and will put them on trial, a judiciary official said on

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By Our Correspondent
BAGHDAD, Nov 25: Gunmen wearing army uniforms stormed a house on Wednesday and killed six members of the same family, including two women and a teenage girl, in

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KABUL, Nov 25: Mullah Mohammad Omar, leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban militia, rejected on Wednesday a call from President Hamid Karzai for peace talks.

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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, Nov 25: Israel’s prime minister on Wednesday pushed for a temporary ease in settlement building amid US pressure for concessions towards

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GENEVA, Nov 25: Switzerland’s top criminal court said on Wednesday it had granted bail to film-maker Roman Polanski, saying his offer of 4.5 million dollars and

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By Justyna Pawlak
BUCHAREST: After months of political feuding that has delayed foreign aid to Romania, Sunday’s presidential election shows that broad consensus over vital

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By Jane Sutton
FORT LAUDERDALE (Florida): Royal Caribbean’s new Oasis of the Seas is the largest, widest, tallest, most expensive cruise ship afloat, a cornucopia of

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