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Washington to press for peace deal: Rice: Olmert in US
WASHINGTON, June 3: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made clear on Tuesday that Washington will press for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal this year despite the corruption scandal dogging Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.... 
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Iran won’t stop nuclear plan, says Khamenei
TEHRAN, June 3: Iran ruled out halting its disputed nuclear programme on Tuesday, days before world powers were expected to offer trade and other benefits to coax Tehran into stopping atomic work they fear is aimed at making bombs....
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Syria wants N-energy under Arab umbrella
DUBAI, June 3: Syria is not seeking nuclear weapons but wants to have access to atomic energy for peaceful purposes through a collective Arab project, President Bashar al-Assad said in remarks published on Tuesday....
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Nato asks Russia to pull out forces from Georgia
BRUSSELS, June 3: Nato Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Tuesday Russia should withdraw 400 troops deployed to repair railway lines in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia....
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Russian army chief sacked after row with minister
MOSCOW, June 3: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday replaced the armed forces’ chief of general staff, General Yuri Baluyevsky, who had clashed with the defence minister, a former tax official with no military background....
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Two top BD generals removed from key posts
DHAKA, June 3: Two top-ranking army generals have been removed from key positions, an official said on Tuesday, as the military chief consolidates power in emergency-ruled Bangladesh....
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Serb policeman held over Srebrenica massacre
SARAJEVO, June 3: Bosnian police have arrested a Bosnian Serb policeman suspected of taking part in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of about 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys, the office of the war crimes prosecutor said on Tuesday....
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Nepal Maoist chief refuses to renounce armed struggle
TOKYO, June 3: Nepal’s Maoist chief has ruled out renouncing armed struggle but said a return to violence was unlikely after the former rebels achieved their goal of ending the world’s last Hindu monarchy....
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Australia’s top policeman held on drugs charges
SYDNEY, June 3: A top Australian police investigator has been arrested over an alleged plan to make a massive batch of the powerful drug ice for a global crime syndicate, police said on Tuesday....
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3 Indian labourers killed in UAE
DUBAI, June 3: Three Indian labourers have been killed and three are missing and feared dead after the collapse of a hotel ceiling being constructed in the United Arab Emirates, the local press reported on Tuesday....
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Russia destroys quarter of chemical weapons
MOSCOW, June 3: Russia has destroyed more than a quarter of its chemical weapons stocks in line with international treaties, a top disarmament official was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying on Tuesday....
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Poor states call for climate funds
BONN, June 3: Rich and poor countries argued over how the West can deploy know-how to fight climate change in developing countries but not lose jobs at a UN-run climate conference in Germany on Tuesday....
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Berlusconi rows back on bill against immigration
ROME, June 3: Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday backtracked on a controversial bill that would make illegal immigration a jailable offence after the United Nations and the Vatican criticised the measure....
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Brigitte Bardot fined for anti-Muslim remarks
PARIS, June 3: A Paris court fined former film star Brigitte Bardot 15,000 euros on Monday for inciting racial hatred by insulting Muslims, her fifth conviction on similar charges in 11 years....
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‘Israel must keep Golan’
JERUSALEM, June 3: Israeli deputy prime minister Shaul Mofaz, who hopes to replace the embattled premier, said on Tuesday he opposed any withdrawal from the annexed Golan Heights as part of a peace deal with Syria....
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British govt changes terrorism bill
LONDON, June 3: Britain’s interior minister offered concessions on Tuesday to try to save Prime Minister Gordon Brown from a parliamentary defeat over plans to extend the time limit for holding terrorism suspects without charge....
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New weapon discovered to fight malaria
PARIS, June 3: Scientists have blocked the sexual development of the malaria parasite in the laboratory, opening the possibility of a drug that could sharply reduce the disease’s spread, according to a new study....
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Nepal’s infant democracy faces mature problems
KATHMANDU: As Nepal ends its first week as the world’s newest republic on Tuesday, worries about political squabbling, food and fuel shortages and demands for regional autonomy are replacing euphoria over the end of the unpopular monarchy....
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Of Malthus, UN Food Summit and hunger
LONDON: Thomas Malthus, the 18th-century cleric, must be chuckling in his grave. As world leaders gather in Rome for the UN summit on hunger, his grim prediction that humanity faced a...
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Bad faith haunts Bangladesh parties ahead of elections
DHAKA: Bangladesh’s biggest political parties, struggling to free their detained leaders in a battle of laws and nerves with the army-backed authority, are still haunted by the bad faith and mistrust that have made them epic rivals....
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Emotional management a key to serenity
LONDON: Screaming at your cat? Forgivable. Screaming at your boyfriend. Understandable. Screaming at your colleagues? Totally, and utterly unacceptable. Or is it is it possible to get angry at work without...
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‘Premature’ to declare Al Qaeda’s defeat
LONDON: When CIA director Michael Hayden last week spoke of the imminent “strategic defeat” of Al Qaeda, he surprised many. Some, such as Professor Bruce Hoffman of Georgetown University, immediately pointed...
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