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US drone may have directed Bajaur strike: think-tank
WASHINGTON, Nov 2: A prestigious US think-tank, the Council on Foreign Relations, on Thursday quoted counter-terrorism experts as saying that an unmanned US predator drone may have directed Pakistani military’s air strike on a madrassa in Bajaur on Oct 30.... 
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Lankan highway: a bargaining chip
COLOMBO, Nov 2: The A9 Highway linking the south of Sri Lanka with Jaffna in the north has now become the country’s road to war. The A9 became a bargaining chip...
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Iraq on the brink of chaos: US army
NEW YORK, Nov 2: A classified briefing prepared two weeks ago by the United States Central Command portrays Iraq as edging toward chaos, in a chart that the military is using...
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Division of Iraq is imminent: Saudi body
RIYADH, Nov 2: Iraq is heading towards division along sectarian and ethnic lines and there exist little opportunity to avoid its possible disintegration, said Nawaf Obaid, managing director of the Riyadh-based independent Saudi National Security Assessment Project....
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Colombo lures Tigers with foreign jobs
COLOMBO, Nov 2: The Sri Lankan government has announced that it will help those deserting the Tamil Tigers rebels secure lucrative foreign employment. Cadres surrendering to the security forces will be...
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Russia proposes gas price hike for Georgia
MOSCOW, Nov 2: Russia said on Thursday it planned to double its price for gas sold to Georgia -- raising the spectre of last winter''s “gas war” between Moscow and Kiev...
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US to Syria, Iran: ‘hands off’ Lebanon
WASHINGTON, Nov 2: The White House on Wednesday sounded the alarm over what it called ‘mounting evidence’ that Iran, Syria and the Hezbollah militia were ‘preparing plans to topple’ Lebanon''s government....
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Venezuela, Guatemala withdraw from race
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 2: After brutal contest to secure a non-permanent seat in the 15-member UN Security Council, Venezuela and Guatemala agreed Wednesday to withdraw from their race and threw their support behind Panama....
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Minister terms headscarves isolating
STOCKHOLM, Nov 2: Sweden''s outspoken new integration minister contributed to a growing debate in Europe about Islamic veils on Thursday, saying headscarves had the effect of `isolating’ Muslim schoolgirls....
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Lebanon power struggle raises fears of violence
BEIRUT: A bitter power struggle between Hezbollah and leaders of the West-backed Beirut government threatens to spill into the streets 11 weeks after Lebanon emerged from a devastating war with Israel....
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The rise of a right-winger in Israeli politics
AL QUDS: At one level you have to hand it to the Israelis. Once cleared into the the Knesset, the parliament building, journalists can wander into the members'' cafeteria without an escort....
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Afghan mission: Canada relaxes army rules
LONDON: Forget the push-ups. Potential recruits no longer need to pass a fitness test to get into the Canadian military. The news, posted on the Canadian forces'' website, means that men...
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UK becoming ‘Big Brother’ society
LONDON: Britain is becoming a `surveillance society’, where CCTV cameras, credit card analysis and travel movements are used to track people''s lives minute by minute, a report published on Thursday suggested....
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Internet body grapples with web addresses
ATHENS: The organisation that manages the Internet''s technical core on Wednesday said it was running tests to determine whether countries can register web addresses in their own language, an option expected to further boost the Internet''s global appeal....
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Policy giving more powers to blacks in SA stirs row
CAPE TOWN: It has created a wealthy black elite, but has been decried for leaving millions of people behind; advocates say it has helped redress the economic wrongs of apartheid but critics argue it is deeply flawed....
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Treating friend and foe in Baghdad
BAGHDAD: Doctors, nurses and even the Christian chaplain at the US military hospital in Baghdad say they treat all patients the same, from US combatants to Iraqi children, soldiers or suspected insurgents....
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