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Dubai firm to take over Pentagon supplier: Bush okays deal
WASHINGTON, April 28: President George Bush on Friday approved a Dubai-owned company’s $1.24 billion takeover of Doncasters, a British engineering company with US plants that supply the Pentagon, the White House said on Friday.... 
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S. Arabia to set up security court
RIYADH, April 28: Saudi Arabia will set up its first special security court this year to try those involved in acts of terrorism, an official said on Friday....
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China opposes binding resolution against Iran
UNITED NATIONS, April 28: China’s United Nations envoy Wang Guangya on Friday restated Beijing’s opposition to western plans to invoke Chapter 7 of the UN charter to legally bind Iran to halt its uranium enrichment activities....
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Excerpts from IAEA report on Tehran’s N-plan
UNITED NATIONS, April 28: Following are excerpts from the report by Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to the UN Security Council and the Vienna-based IAEA Board of Governors on Iran’s nuclear programme....
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Move under Chapter 7 of UN Charter: explanation
UNITED NATIONS, April 28: Western powers worried about Iran’s nuclear programme are considering a UN Security Council resolution under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter which can authorise sanctions or even the use of force....
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Tehran to honour pledges, says envoy
UNITED NATIONS, April 28: Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations said on Thursday that Tehran would not stop its uranium enrichment programme, but gave an assurance that confidence-building measures (CBMS) discussed earlier with European powers would remain on the table....
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Nepal MPs vow to trim king’s powers
KATHMANDU, April 28: Nepal’s parliament forged ahead with plans to trim the powers of the monarch in its first sitting for four years on Friday, but the ailing premier stayed away....
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Chirac moots WB role for Palestine aid
PARIS, April 28: French President Jacques Chirac on Friday proposed the creation of a special account at the World Bank to channel international aid funds to the Palestinians and head off an impending financial meltdown in the territories....
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11 Nepalese soldiers kidnapped
KATHMANDU, April 28: Eleven unarmed Nepalese soldiers were kidnapped by Maoist rebels on the same day they called a three-month ceasefire in their decade-long insurgency, the defence ministry said on Friday....
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US to accept N.Korean DPs
WASHINGTON, April 28: The United States announced on Thursday that it would soon begin accepting North Korean refugees....
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14,600 died in 11,000 terror attacks: study
WASHINGTON, April 28: Some 11,000 terrorist attacks were carried out in the world last year, killing more than 14,600 people, the majority of them in Iraq, the US government said in a report on Friday....
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5 Congressmen arrested
WASHINGTON, April 28: Five members of the US Congress were arrested at the Sudanese embassy on Friday to protest violence in that country’s Darfur region.—Reuters...
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Israeli strike on Iran probable
LOS ANGELES: Let me tell you about the next war. It will start sooner than you think — sometime between now and September. And it will be precipitated by the $700-million...
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Hollywood is trying to rewrite 9/11 tragedy
WASHINGTON: United 93, Hollywood’s first big-budget film about the events of September 11, 2001, is faithful to the major aspects of the tragic morning it depicts....
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Bollywood stars bank on balance sheet
MUMBAI: Stung by the penniless end of some of Bollywood’s former giants, a new generation of Indian movie stars is turning entrepreneurial to cushion the financial blow of life away from the limelight....
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Bush’s messy choice of friends and enemies
LONDON: Here is an ABC of how to promote undemocratic regimes. The leader of country A was George Bush’s guest on Friday after recently supervising a parliamentary election that was widely considered not to have been free and fair....
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Tycoon’s children carve their own niche
NEW YORK: Donald Trump hand-picks apprentices on his popular television series, but the true apprentices — the ones destined to lead the Trump Organisation — have much closer ties to the boardroom....
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Four years after independence, East Timor is on the right track
DILI: Four years ago as East Timor became the world’s youngest nation, hundreds of cars driven by UN personnel criss-crossed the streets of Dili as the nation’s strife-torn people faced an uncertain future....
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