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EU, African leaders pledge to create new partnership
LISBON, Dec 9: EU and African leaders pledged on Sunday to create a new partnership of equals at a summit marked by rows over trade and Darfur and a vitriolic attack by Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe on European “arrogance.”... 
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Khaleda and Hasina charged over graft deals
DHAKA, Dec 9: Two former Bangladesh prime ministers were charged Sunday over multi-million dollar deals awarded to a Canadian gas company, officials said....
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Bombing kills Iraq provincial police chief
BAGHDAD, Dec 9: A roadside bomb killed the police chief of Iraq’s Babel province and five of his guards on Sunday in what the US military described as a ‘terrible loss’....
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IAEA team in Iran for new talks
TEHRAN, Dec 9: A delegation from the UN nuclear watchdog arrived in Tehran on Sunday to tackle a new subject in ongoing talks over the controversial Iranian nuclear programme, the IRNA news agency reported....
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Qadhafi due in Paris today
PARIS, Dec 9: Libyan leader Moamer Qadhafi arrives in Paris on Monday for a high-profile visit set to usher in multi-billion-euro nuclear and aviation contracts, even as critics lashed President Nicolas Sarkozy for welcoming Mr Qadhafi....
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Greater efforts urged for accord at climate summit
NUSA DUA (Indonesia), Dec 9: Climate change campaigners called on Sunday for greater effort in the fight against global warming, saying the world was waiting for a crunch UN conference in Bali to produce a breakthrough....
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Bushfires in Australia threaten tourist resort
SYDNEY, Dec 9: More than 300 firefighters battled wildfires threatening a tourist resort and a small fishing and surfing community on South Australia’s Kangaroo Island on Sunday, local media reported....
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NASA pushes shuttle launch into 2008
CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida), Dec 9: NASA on Sunday postponed its launch of the shuttle Atlantis until early 2008 after technical problems scuppered the planned delivery of a European laboratory to the International Space Station....
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Two killed in shooting at US missionary centre
LOS ANGELES, Dec 9: A young gunman opened fire inside a Christian youth mission centre outside Denver on Sunday, killing two staff members in their mid-20s and wounding another two, police said....
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Four die in BD building collapses
DHAKA, Dec 9: At least four people were killed and 14 others injured when a multi-storey building partially collapsed in the Bangladesh capital, officials said on Sunday....
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Dubai film festival to bring East and West together
DUBAI: Stars from Hollywood, Bollywood and the Arab world descend on multicultural Dubai on Sunday for the start of a film festival that sees itself as a bridge between East and West....
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Syria’s isolation ending after Annapolis
DAMASCUS: Syria, no longer worried it might be the next US target for regime change after Iraq, is emerging from Western and Arab ostracism without sacrificing its anti-Israeli alliance with Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas....
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Britain’s Iraq war comes to an end
BAGHDAD: In less than two weeks British troops will hand over security responsibility for Basra, the last province they control in southern Iraq, to Iraqi troops....
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Massive spill blackens S. Korea’s beaches
TAEAN: South Korea deployed more than 100 ships and thousands of troops on Sunday to clean up the worst oil spill in its history, which has blackened beaches, coated birds in tar and cast a foul smell over a nature reserve....
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DNA tests don’t always help with family roots
WASHINGTON: DNA testing can free an innocent person from death row, warn a healthy person about impending heart disease, and show this red-headed reporter that his ancestors came from ... Europe. ...
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Russia launches military satellite
MOSCOW: Russia successfully launched a military satellite on Sunday from the Baikonur cosmodrome, part of a drive to modernise the armed forces’ space infrastructure, Russian news agencies reported....
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