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Two US allies pulling out of Iraq
Two of America's allies in Iraq are withdrawing forces this month and a half-dozen others are debating possible pullouts or reductions, increasing pressure on Washington as calls mount to bring home US
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8 burned by tent fires in Pak quake zone
Eight people, two of them Turkish aid workers, have been hospitalised with serious burns after their tents caught fire in quake-ravaged Pakistan, health officials said Friday.
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US carries out 1,000th execution
Double murderer Kenneth Lee Boyd became the 1,000th prisoner executed in the United States since the reinstatement of capital punishment when he was put to death by lethal injection on Friday.
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Ballot boxes set on fire in Palestinian ballot
Voting in a primary election for the ruling Fatah faction was halted in a Palestinian town near the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday after ballot boxes were set on fire, election officials said.
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Secret CIA Flights
At least two stopovers in France: Report
Aircraft hired by the US Central Intelligence Agency possibly to transport Islamist prisoners have made at least two stopovers in France, in 2002 and 2005, the daily Le Figaro reported Friday.
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EU adds Hizb-ul-Mujahideen to terror list
The European Union (EU) has added Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, the Pakistan-based outfit carrying out terrorist activities in Jammu and Kashmir for over a decade, to its list of terrorist organisations.
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Depression triggers heavy rains in Chennai
The metropolis in India was battered by heavy rains for nearly three hours on Friday as the deep depression over southwest Bay of Bengal and adjoining west Bay weakened into a depression and lay 250-kms
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Shia cleric shot dead in Pakistan
Gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead a minority Shia Muslim cleric Friday in a remote southwestern Pakistani town, police said, in the latest suspected sectarian killing to hit the country.
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China criticizes local officials over toxic slick
China has criticized officials in a northeastern province for failing to report a toxic spill, saying the delay hampered efforts to control a slick that forced cuts in water supply to millions and isbearing
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Plan to allow scissors on planes opposed
A proposal to allow small scissors and tools back onto airliners is drawing strident opposition from flight attendants, families of victims of the Sept. 11 hijackings and several lawmakers.
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