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Abbas slates vote for July 31: Referendum on statehood
RAMALLAH, June 8: Pales-tinian President Mahmoud Abbas will hold a referendum on July 31 on a statehood proposal that implicitly recognises Israel, officials said on Thursday.... 
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Three bomb blasts kill 31 in Baghdad: Wrangling on defence, interior posts ends
BAGHDAD, June 8: A string of bombs that killed at least 31 people in Baghdad on Thursday underlined warnings by US and Iraqi officials that violence will not cease with the...
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Zarqawi: facelessness heightened mystique
BAGHDAD, June 8: Al-Qaeda front man Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whose death was announced on Thursday, was one of the world’s most wanted men who for years evaded capture both in Iraq and his homeland Jordan....
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Painstaking intel led to Zarqawi, says general
BAGHDAD, June 8: Painstak-ing intelligence gathering and sources inside Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s network enabled US forces to pinpoint his location and kill the Al Qaeda leader, the US military said on Thursday....
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LTTE boycotts negotiations
OSLO, June 8: Sri Lanka’s government said Tamil Tiger rebels had refused to meet them at talks in Oslo on Thursday, a blow to hopes of revitalising a peace process many fear is about to degenerate into renewed civil war....
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Iran ready to hold talks: president
TEHRAN, June 8: Iran said on Thursday it is open to nuclear talks with the West, but that technology was not up for discussion, amid rising hopes for a breakthrough in the standoff over its controversial nuclear aims....
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Arab street divided
CAIRO, June 8: The death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq showed deep splits on Thursday between Arabs who credit him for the Iraqi resistance to occupation and those who say Al Qaeda gives Muslims a bad name....
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3-bn-year-old rocks with sign of life
PARIS, June 8: Enigmatic clusters of layered rocks in Australia, dated at more than 3.4 billion years old, provide the earliest evidence of life on Earth, according to a study published on Thursday....
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Nobody yet identified for bounty
WASHINGTON, June 8: The United States has not identified anyone eligible to receive the $25 million bounty offered for information leading to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s capture or death, the State Department said on Thursday....
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Masri likely to succeed Zarqawi
BAGHDAD, June 8: The US military predicted on Thursday that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would be succeeded by an Egyptian-born lieutenant known as Abu al-Masri....
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Russia tells Ukraine to stay out of Nato
MOSCOW: Russia has warned Ukraine the two countries’ relations would be significantly damaged if Ukraine joined Nato, as protests against planned exercises in the Crimea kept hundreds of US troops confined to barracks....
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Rich-poor gap widening in US: 37 million Americans living in poverty
WASHINGTON: There is a common response to America among foreign writers: the USA is a land of extremes where the best of things are just as easily found as the worst....
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BJP reels from drink & drugs scandal
NEW DELHI: India’s opposition Hindu nationalist party is reeling from a drink and drugs scandal that has tarnished its image as a guardian of public morality, analysts say....
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US exaggerated Zarqawi’s role
WASHINGTON: If the United States has focused on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his Al Qaeda bombers to justify its troops in Iraq, analysts say terrorism is just a small part of the mayhem plaguing the country....
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Militia used new tactics to win Mogadishu
NAIROBI: Muslim militias captured Mogadishu — an anarchic city no single group could control for 15 years — because of superior training, popular support and religious motivation, experts said on Wednesday....
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Canadian openness examined after plots
OTTAWA: Canada’s sometimes-smug attitude that nothing could disturb its multicultural society took a hit this week as police alleged Muslim citizens wanted to bomb Parliament and other key institutions, and behead the prime minister....
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