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Multiple car bombs claim 25 lives in Iraq
AMARA (Iraq), Dec 12: Triple car bombs killed at least 25 people in the southern city of Amara on Wednesday, as Iraq announced it would retake control of the key province of Basra from the British army on Dec 16.... 
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50 Taliban killed in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Dec 12: More than 50 Taliban were killed in two days of intense clashes in southern Afghanistan after the rebels were pushed out of a nearby stronghold, the defence ministry said on Wednesday....
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Palestinians demand end to settlements as talks begin
JERUSALEM, Dec 12: Palestinians on Wednesday demanded that Israel halt all settlement activity as the two sides met for the first time since reviving the stalled Middle East peace process at a US sponsored conference....
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Gordon Brown’s Afghanistan strategy
LONDON, Dec.12: Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Wednesday outlined Britain’s new Afghan strategy with emphasis on dialogue but still making it conditional to Taliban renouncing violence and accepting democracy....
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‘Danger of war’ exists with Iran: Sarkozy
PARIS, Dec 12: French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned of a risk of a war with Iran if Israel considered its security seriously threatened by Tehran’s nuclear drive in a magazine interview to be published on Thursday....
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Serbia, Kosovo ‘never going to be one again’: Rice
WASHINGTON: Russia must accept the reality that “Serbia and Kosovo are never going to be one again” or risk instability there, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in an interview published Wednesday....
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Israel rules out major incursion
JERUSALEM, Dec 12: Israel’s security cabinet on Wednesday ruled out launching a widescale military operation against the Gaza Strip to counter rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled territory, a senior official said....
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NATO alarmed as Russia suspends arms treaty
MOSCOW:NATO and a European security body expressed alarm Wednesday after Russia walked out of a Cold War treaty setting limits on troops and weapons across the continent....
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CIA chief grilled again on destroyed evidence
WASHINGTON: The director of the CIA was questioned for a second time by lawmakers on Wednesday, amid anger that the spy agency destroyed videos allegedly depicting the torture of terror suspects....
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US admits ‘tactical differences’ with China, Russia
WASHINGTON: The United States has “tactical differences” with Russia and China on adopting new UN sanctions against Iran over its disputed nuclear program, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said....
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Gujarat exit polls not reliable, say analysts
AHMEDABAD: Elections in India’s booming but communally divided state of Gujarat are going down to the wire, with TV exit polls after a first round of voting showing a small swing away from the ruling Hindu nationalists....
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BD seeks employees’ wealth details
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s army-backed interim authority has asked all government employees to submit statements of their wealth by the end of this year as part of an anti-corruption campaign....
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New Delhi’s new clean-up act
NEW DELHI: Most mornings in New Delhi, a battered van sets off around the Indian capital and snatches bedraggled and disabled men from the streets....
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Musa Qala’s symbolic five-day struggle
KABUL: The Afghan flag was flying over the town of Musa Qala on Wednesday, the Defence Ministry said, after five days of fighting to retake the only town in Afghanistan that had been controlled by Taliban insurgents....
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Nepal’s long year of terror
KATMANDU: Violent protests and fighting among rival minority groups seeking greater rights has killed more than 130 people and at least 200 others have been kidnapped in southern Nepal this year, the UN said on Wednesday....
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The lost world of Hyderabad Deccan
The two previous instalments of this article were published on Tuesday and Wednesday....
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