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70 Taliban die in ambush
KHOST, May 19: Nearly 70 Taliban militants were killed in an ambush by US-led forces and Afghan soldiers in eastern Afghanistan, a military commander said on Saturday.... 
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Afghan blast kills 3 German troops
KUNDUZ (Afghanistan), May 19: Germany suffered its biggest loss in Afghanistan since 2003 on Saturday when three soldiers and about six Afghan civilians were killed in a suicide blast in a normally calm northern town....
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Windstorm leaves three people dead in Srinagar
SRINAGAR, May 19: A severe windstorm uprooted trees and electric poles in the occupied Kashmir, killing three people and injuring 60, officials said on Saturday. Winds with speeds of about 74...
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Carter attacks Blair for Iraq war support
LONDON, May 19: Former US president Jimmy Carter on Saturday attacked outgoing British Prime Minister Tony Blair for his “blind” support of the Iraq war, describing it as a “major tragedy for the world”....
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Bush rushes to patch up rift over immigration
WASHINGTON, May 19: President George W. Bush rushed on Saturday to patch up a sudden rift with his most faithful Republican allies, who have supported him on Iraq but have now revolted against a White House-backed immigration reform proposal....
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Huge collection of silver, gold coins found
MIAMI, May 19: US deep-sea treasure hunters said on Friday they retrieved 17 tonnes of silver coins from a shipwreck, saying that the find is the largest of its kind, worth hundreds of millions of dollars....
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Scrutiny of Afghan media on cards
LONDON: Afghanistan’s parliament is on the brink of passing a new law that could damage the independence of the country’s media. Under the new proposals, both private and state media will come under greater government control....
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Now amnesty in US ‘carries stigma’
NEW YORK: The word “amnesty” — at the core of the debate over a proposed US immigration overhaul — has been a volatile, politically charged term throughout its history, often applying...
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UK political system withers with winds of failures
LONDON: How could a prime minister destroy a country, in full view of his people and the media, and not be called to account? In 1965, a professor at Brandeis University, in the US, wrote an essay dedicated to his students....
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Tale of a lunch with politics on the menu
WASHINGTON: Weeks before the 2006 midterm election, then-New Mexico US Atty. David C. Iglesias was invited to dine with a well-connected Republican lawyer in Albuquerque who had been after him for years to prosecute allegations of voter fraud....
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Gonzales’s hospital episode
WASHINGTON: It just gets worse and worse. We already knew that Alberto Gonzales — who, unbelievably, remains our attorney general — was willing to construe the Constitution and the Geneva Conventions however George W....
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