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Israel pledges to remove West Bank roadblocks
JERUSALEM, March 30: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday secured an Israeli pledge to remove 50 West Bank roadblocks to improve the daily lives of Palestinians and reinvigorate Middle East peace talks.... 
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Man who made film against Tamil Tigers attacked in India
CHENNAI, March 30: A Sri Lankan film-maker has ended up in hospital after making a damning film on the Tamil Tigers and trying to have it processed in a studio in a Tamil-majority region of neighbouring India....
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Indonesia rocked
JAKARTA, March 30: A powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake rocked the Indonesian province of Aceh early on Sunday but there were no reports of casualties or damage, an official said.The...
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US firms want increase in high-tech visa limit
WASHINGTON, March 30: Facing another squeeze on a visa programme for skilled workers, US business leaders are stepping up efforts to raise the limits, arguing that the nation is running short of the talent it needs to remain competitive....
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Iran has N-arms plan, says CIA chief
WASHINGTON, March 30: CIA chief Michael Hayden expressed his personal belief on Sunday that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons programme, but also stood by the agency’s assessment that the programme was suspended in 2003....
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Hasina appears before graft court
DHAKA, March 30: Former prime minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina appeared before a graft court on Sunday soon after being released from hospital, officials said....
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Obama tells Hillary to stay in the race
NEW YORK, March 30: As the Democratic presidential race drags on with no clear winner, front runner Senator Barack Obama, is telling Senator Hillary Clinton to stay in the race until...
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‘Killing Fields’ survivor Dith Pran dies
NEW YORK, March 30: Photojournalist Dith Pran, whose harrowing survival of genocide in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge was dramatised in the film “The Killing Fields,” died on Sunday at the age of 65....
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Camels line up for beauty contest
ABU DHABI, March 30: More than 10,000 camels from across the Gulf will be competing for millions of dollars in prize money at a beauty pageant for the “ship of the desert” in Abu Dhabi next week....
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Prospect of France returning to Nato tilts power balance
BRUSSELS: The prospect of France returning to Nato’s military command after more than four decades of estrangement is tilting the balance of trans-Atlantic relations....
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Eight years of violence in Iraq taking heavy toll
BASRA: It took eight years for Nur Muhammad, 35, finally to fall pregnant with the child she desperately wanted. Last week, Ali, her pride and joy, became the youngest victim of the upswing in violence....
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US economy has long needed to cut its coat according to its cloth
LONDON: What a pity that JK Galbraith did not live to witness the nemesis of the new financial wisdom a nemesis that he had so confidently predicted! How he would have...
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Researchers find six new diabetes genes
LONDON: US and European scientists have found six more genes that make people more susceptible to developing type 2 diabetes, in a study they say may help prevent and treat the chronic condition....
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Inflation rears its head, giving India govt jitters
NEW DELHI: High inflation has returned to haunt India, prompting the government to declare war on soaring prices to keep the support of the nation’s notoriously cost-sensitive voters, analysts say....
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