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Threat from Iran and Al Qaeda growing: US
WASHINGTON, Feb 27: The United States faces growing threats on multiple fronts with Al Qaeda still the top danger, but Iran on the rise and on course to produce nuclear weapons... 
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US, Italian envoys hurt in LTTE attack
COLOMBO, Feb 27: The US and Italian ambassadors to Sri Lanka were injured on Tuesday morning in artillery attacks by the Tamil Tiger rebels in the eastern Batticaloa district....
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Dubai paper’s threat to Pakistani daily
DUBAI, Feb 27: A leading Dubai newspaper has described the use of its material by The News International, a Pakistani newspaper, as ‘dishonest’ and ‘infringement of its copyright’ and threatened legal action....
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US must account for missing detainees: HR
NEW YORK, Feb 27: The US government should account for all the missing detainees once held by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Tuesday....
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US, Iran, Syria invited to attend: Conference on Iraq
WASHINGTON, Feb 27: The United States will attend a ministerial level meeting of Iraq''s neighbours, including Iran and Syria, as well as other world powers to discuss Iraq''s future, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice indicated on Tuesday....
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1bn suffer from neurological disorder: WHO
GENEVA, Feb 27: An estimated one billion people suffer from debilitating or life-threatening neurological disorders ranging from Alzheimer’s disease to headaches and the consequences of head injuries, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday....
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China’s military power aimed at parity with US: official
WASHINGTON, Feb 27: China’s military modernisation is aimed at achieving parity with the United States and not limited to its drive for reunification with Taiwan, the US intelligence chief said on Tuesday....
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Egypt editor fined for insulting president
CAIRO, Feb 27: A prominent Egyptian independent newspaper editor had his one-year jail sentence for insulting the president quashed on Tuesday but was fined nearly $4,000....
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Iran seeking 1,000-year-old ‘Reich’, says Netanyahu
JERUSALEM, Feb 27: Former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday accused Iran of trying to establish a 1,000-year Islamic “Reich,” similar to the empire Adolf Hitler dreamt of creating....
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Hamas to halt rocket attacks
MOSCOW, Feb 27: Palestinian militant group Hamas has given assurances that it will act to halt rocket attacks on Israel, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said here on Tuesday after meeting the Hamas chief....
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Oscars for Gore film to increase global warming awareness
WASHINGTON: The double Oscar win for “An Inconvenient Truth,” former Vice President Al Gore’s expanded slide-show on global warming, could spur grassroots support for the fight against climate change, environmental advocates said on Monday....
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US may lose power by increasing pressure on Iran
WASHINGTON: The winds of fortune in the Iranian nuclear stand-off seem to have shifted, judging by the US’s new confidence. But in Washington’s apparent quest to get an upper hand, misreading...
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Political Islam tests Badawi’s mettle
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s moderate premier came to power as the man who could halt its march toward Islamic conservatism, but three years later his countrymen wonder if he has unwittingly hastened the process instead....
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India’s ‘modern-day Nero’ prospers
AHMEDABAD: He was accused of being a “modern-day Nero” who sat back while thousands of Muslims were butchered, but Narendra Modi has not only survived as chief minister of India’s western state of Gujarat, he has prospered....
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Death batters at the doors of Iraq’s universities
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi minister was at a loss. “What can we do?” he asked in a trembling voice after a woman suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest at a Baghdad business college, slaughtering 40 people....
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Turk general rattles sabre before ‘coup’ anniversary
ANKARA: Turkey is facing the biggest threat to its unity and security since the modern republic was founded in 1923, according to the head of its armed forces....
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Longfellow’s 200th birth anniversary celebrated in his native town
PORTLAND: Remembrances of celebrated American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who would have turned 200 on Tuesday, are hard to escape in his native Portland, the place he described in “My Lost...
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Jade Goody donates ‘dirty money’
NEW DELHI: British reality TV show contestant Jade Goody, who sparked a row by tormenting a Bollywood actress on “Celebrity Big Brother” said on Tuesday she had donated money from the show to poor Indian children....
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