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UN chief calls for talks
UNITED NATIONS: UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Monday condemned those behind a resurgence of violence in Lebanon and urged a return to dialogue to repair the sharp divisions in the country, his press office said.Ban... 
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Mob attacks immigrants in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, May 12: A mob attacked a group of immigrants with stones, whips and guns in a South African township, killing two people and injuring about 40, police said on Monday....
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Iran, IAEA hold new round of talks
TEHRAN, May 12: Iran and the UN nuclear watchdog held a new round of talks on Monday on Tehran’s disputed atomic drive, the official IRNA news agency reported....
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Fierce fighting erupts in Lebanon
BEIRUT, May 12: Fierce fighting erupted in northern Lebanon on Monday, further exacerbating tensions after days of deadly sectarian battles that have driven the nation to the brink of full-blown civil war....
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Putin allies get top jobs in Russian cabinet
MOSCOW, May 12: Key Russian ministers kept their jobs and influential former Kremlin aides were given cabinet posts on Monday in a government shake-up under new Prime Minister Vladimir Putin....
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Hunt for survivors at collapsed school
BEIJING, May 12: Students fought to escape from rubble and frantic rescuers dug out others buried in a school that collapsed following the earthquake in China on Monday....
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Recent major quakes around the world
_— Feb 3, 2008: 45 people killed and thousands homeless after a 6.1 intensity quake hit eastern Congo and western Rwanda....
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Nepal to abolish monarchy on 28th
KATHMANDU, May 12: Nepal’s government announced on Monday that its new constitution-drafting body would meet for the first time on May 28 when it is due to formally abolish the monarchy and declare the country a republic....
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Palestinians losing faith in two-state solution
RAMALLAH: Sixty years ago, Arab leaders rejected the partition of Palestine and with it a United Nations proposal of a Palestinian state alongside Israel....
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Brown’s reputation has collapsed on every front
(The first instalment of this article was published in Monday’s Dawn)...
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A tyrant’s own ballot
LONDON: It is over a week since Cyclone Nargis brought devastation to Myanmar, and its people are in mourning although there has been no official condolence from the ruling junta....
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Infighting damages France’s Muslim body
PARIS: Five years after it was set up France’s official Muslim council has hit a wall: hamstrung by infighting and accused of failing the country’s Muslims while giving fundamentalists a stronghold in public life....
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India’s green revolutionary is back in spotlight
NEW DELHI: Forty years after he helped rescue the world from growing famine and a deepening gloom over the future of food supplies, Monkombu Sambasivan Swaminathan is once again agitating for revolution this time a perpetual one....
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