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Manmohan may ink sub deal with France
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday left for a two-nation tour, which will take him to Paris, where he seeks to bolster nuclear and defence ties with France, and in New York he will hold ameeting
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Iraq closes Syria border
Iraq's government said it launched thousands of troops against rebels in the city of Tal Afar on Saturday and ordered the nearby border with Syria closed to stem what Baghdad calls an influx of foreign
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UN summit gets only scaled-down reforms
More than 170 leaders gather here from Wednesday for the largest summit ever to review a scaled-down version of UN chief Kofi Annan's ambitious plan to reform the 60-year-old world body.
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Musharraf to confront image issues in US
President Pervez Musharraf left for New York yesterday with a mission to counter criticism of Pakistan's record on women's rights, to improve Muslim-Jewish relations and to boost a flagging peace process
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Palestinians face test of statehood after pullout
Israel to build housing in WB despite US rejection
Palestinians may be celebrating Israel's pullout from the Gaza Strip, but as a test case for independence, the withdrawal from the lesser half of their promised state could turn into a poisoned chalice.
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Searches, cleanup go on in New Orleans
Forensic workers and cadaver dogs searched the city in earnest for corpses as crews cleared away mounds of trash and debris left behind by residents fleeing Hurricane Katrina.
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Sept 11 attack victims remembered in silence
The United States paused for a moment of silence yesterday, as the country recalled the horror of the September 11 terrorist attacks four years ago that claimed nearly 3,000 lives.
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Riots erupt over Belfast parade
Protestant extremists threw homemade grenades Saturday and seven police and two civilians were wounded in the latest fury over a restricted Belfast parade.
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