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French voters last to know president's name
Millions of French voters casting their ballots for the right-winger Nicolas Sarkozy or the socialist Segolene Royal may be the last to discover the name of their new president tonight.
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Iran a sticking point in Indo-US N-deal
The passage of a landmark nuclear deal between India and the United States has hit a fresh snag with senators in Washington piling the pressure on New Delhi to keep its distance from Iran, officials said.
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Blair counts cost of polls rout
Britain's governing Labour Party was licking its wounds yesterday after voters sent outgoing Prime Minister Tony Blair on his way with a string of stinging poll losses.
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Pakistan nets hundreds ahead of rally for judge
Pakistani police have detained hundreds of opposition workers to prevent them from joining a rally in support of a top judge sacked by President Pervez Musharraf, activists said yesterday.
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Science triumphs over politics at climate meet
Science had a rare victory over politics at this week's UN climate change conference, after a united call for action emerged despite fierce debate over how to best tackle global warming.
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Paris Hilton going to jail for 45 days
A judge sentenced Paris Hilton to 45 days in county jail Friday for violating her probation, putting the brakes on the hotel heiress' famous high life.
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King biggest electricity bills defaulter
Nepal's embattled King Gyanendra owes more than 460,000 dollars in unpaid electricity bills, making him the Himalayan nation's biggest power defaulter, a report said yesterday.
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Lankan navy sinks 2 Tiger boats
Sri Lankan naval craft sank two suspected Tamil Tiger boats off the island's northeastern coast yesterday, inflicting heavy losses on the guerrillas, a navy official said.
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16 feared dead in Indian factory blast
Three people were killed and about a dozen more were feared dead in an explosion at a chemical factory in western India, police said yesterday. "We found three bodies.
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Jihad militants fire rockets on Israel
Gaza militants fired three rockets at southern Israel on Saturday causing no casualties but damaging a building in the town of Sderot, an army spokesman said.
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Filipino former colonel rules out coup
A former Philippines army colonel accused of plotting to overthrow President Gloria Arroyo has given her his personal assurance he will not try to oust her and sought her help with the charges, the presidential
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Six killed in Thailand's restive south
Six people, including two Muslim children, have been killed by suspected Islamic rebels in separate attacks in Thailand's violence-torn south, police said yesterday.
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2 cops killed in wave of Afghan blasts
Four suicide bombings struck Afghanistan yesterday, killing two policemen, as military officials announced more than 10 Taliban commanders were killed in major battles a week ago.
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Sunnis kill Shiite in Pakistan
Suspected Sunni militants yesterday killed a man from the minority Shiite community in a remote Pakistani town which had been under curfew following series of sectarian killings, police said.
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Strike in Kashmir over arrests, mosque
Demonstrators shut down Indian Kashmir's main city yesterday to protest against the jailing of hardline separatists and alleged damage to a mosque, witnesses said.
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China firm to build Myanmar hydro-power plants
A Chinese firm will help military-run Myanmar build seven hydro-electric plants with combined power capacity likely to be the biggest in the Southeast Asian country, state media said yesterday.
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150m-yr-old dinosaur unearthed in Argentina
Palaeontologists unearthed a flesh-eating dinosaur some 150 million years old in southern Argentina with all its joints in place, the first time such a beast has been dug up so intact, one of the finders
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Nuclear Crisis
Japan ready to resume N Korea talks
Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso has reiterated Japan's readiness to restart the stalled six-way talks on North Korea's nuclear crisis, Kyodo News said yesterday.
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