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Sunni, Kurd blocs veto Shia group’s nominee: Appointment of Iraqi PM
BAGHDAD, March 2: Iraq’s Kurdish, Sunni and secular political groups on Thursday wrote to the main Shia alliance to reject its selection of outgoing prime minister Ibrahim Jaafari to lead the... 
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Cartoon row: firm loses $64m
COPENHAGEN, March 2: Scandinavian food group Arla, which has been the chief economic victim of the row over anti-Islamic cartoons, said on Thursday the conflict would cost it 400 million Danish kroner (64 million dollars) this year....
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US, Indian officials burnt midnight oil to strike deal
NEW DELHI, March 2: Egged on by their leaders, US and Indian officials burnt the midnight oil to seal the landmark nuclear deal on Thursday. President George Bush and Prime Minister...
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US-India nuclear accord: details
NEW DELHI, March 2: India will place 14 of 22 nuclear power reactors under international safeguards, an Indian official who provided details of the landmark deal with the United States told reporters on Thursday....
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Facts on India’s N-plants
NEW DELHI, March 2: India has 15 operating nuclear reactors that produce 3,300 megawatts of electricity, four of which are under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards, according to the country’s Department of Atomic Energy....
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US trying to ‘destroy’ Russian offer: Iran
MOSCOW, March 2: Iran’s top nuclear negotiator accused the United States on Thursday of trying to ‘destroy’ Russian efforts to work out a solution for easing global worries over Tehran’s nuclear programme....
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EU digital library to have 6m books
BRUSSELS, March 2: At least six million books, documents and “other cultural works” are to be put online and housed in the European Digital Library by 2010, the European Commission said on Thursday....
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US military to allow evidence obtained through torture
GUANTANAMO BAY US NAVAL BASE (Cuba), March 2: US military officers, breaking with domestic and international legal precedent, said on Wednesday that “war on terror” military tribunals at the Guantanamo naval base could allow evidence obtained through torture....
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Consensus sought on UN rights council
UNITED NATIONS, March 2: Following a US decision to vote against the proposed draft on the establishment of a human rights council last week, the President of United Nations General Assembly...
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Beijing opposes UNSC meeting
UNITED NATIONS, March 2: Noting that Iran and Russia may be closer to an agreement on Iran’s enrichment programme, China on Wednesday asserted that the Iranian issue should be discussed by...
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Two Arabs hanged in Iran
TEHRAN, March 2: Two Arabs convicted of carrying out a deadly bomb attack in Iran’s restive oil city of Ahvaz were hanged from a crane in front of thousands of people on Thursday....
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Abbas fears Al Qaeda ‘infiltration’
RAMALLAH, March 2: Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas voiced fears on Thursday that Al Qaeda had infiltrated the West Bank and Gaza, as Israel warned citizens to avoid its Arab neighbours over fears of an attack....
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US probing deals by UAE company
WASHINGTON, March 2: The US government is investigating the acquisition of sensitive US facilities and technology by another United Arab Emirates-owned firm and an Israeli company, The Washington Post said on Thursday....
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‘Mr Blair, you sent my son to die’
LONDON: This is an edited version of a letter delivered by Pauline Hickey to 10 Downing Street on Wednesday....
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Belarus — the land the Soviets never left: Opposition hopes to stir agitation
MINSK: Nikolai Statkievich shares the foul stench of his tiny cell with five other prisoners. After their 6am wake-up call, the men form a line along the corridor outside, their backs to the wall....
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Berlusconi assails Italians in election run-up
ROME: Lucia Ricci was beginning to think Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was following her. The media tycoon’s face beamed down at her from billboards near her home....
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Church, state vie for power in Spain
MADRID: Shortly after his election in 2004, Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero ended a quarter-century of cosy church-state relations by blocking mandatory religious classes in public schools....
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Mubarak restores grip on power
CAIRO: Egypt’s government is cracking down on pro-reform activists, calculating that Washington’s drive to democratise the Middle East has flagged after the success in Egyptian and Palestinian elections, analysts say....
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