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RAMALLAH, West Bank/ SALVADOR, Brazil: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said presidential and legislative elections scheduled for January will be postponed, confirming that he has accepted advice not to hold the vote.
Abbas, speaking to BBC Arabic, said the Palestinianleadership wo
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Shiv Sena attacks office of Indian TV network |
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MUMBAI: Members of a Hindu hard-line political party on Friday ransacked the offices of an Indian television news channel in the western Indian city of Mumbai, using iron rods and baseball bats to beat employees and smash furniture.
The office of IBN Lokmat, a television channel that broa
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Oprah to end talk show |
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CHICAGO: A tearful Oprah Winfrey on Friday announced that she will take her iconic talk show off the air in 2011 at the end of its 25th season. “I love this show. This show has been my life and I love it enough to know when it’s time to say goodbye,” Winfrey told viewers at the end of her live br
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‘Iran has not responded positively to N-offer’ |
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BRUSSELS/ BRASILIA: ajor world powers expressed disappointment Friday that Iran has “not responded positively” to a plan for resolving the standoff over its nuclear programme or agreed to new talks.
“We are disappointed by the lack of follow-up” to understandings reached when the six pow
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Blair ‘will bounce back’ |
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Former British premier Tony Blair may have been rejected as EU president, but the snub leaves him free him to pursue his dizzying array of activities — not least making money, experts said on Friday.
Blair, Middle East envoy since leaving office two years ago, will almost certainly “bounc
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Turkey probes plot allegations |
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ISTANBUL: Turkey is investigating a suspected plot by Naval officers to attack non-Muslim minorities to discredit the ruling Islamist-rooted AK Party, the prime minister’s office said on Friday.
The alleged plan, one of several reported in Turkish media, could add to strains between the s
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Global warming to hit Arab states |
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BEIRUT: Global warming will have a severe impact on Arab states where water is already scarce, a regional report warned on Thursday ahead of next month’s Copenhagen environment summit.
Some of the most feared effects include depletion of agricultural land, spread of disease and endangerme
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Republicans question Obama’s Afghan strategy |
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WASHINGTON: Top Republican lawmakers wrote to President Barack Obama on Friday, expressing “deep concern” over his Afghanistan policy, saying it has left the country and allies “uncertain about (his) commitment to the war.”
In a letter obtained by AFP, 14 lawmakers including House Minority Le
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Queen, Prince Philip mark 62 years of marriage |
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LONDON: Buckingham Palace says the queen and her husband Prince Philip are celebrating 62 years of marriage quietly without the fanfare of two years ago, when they marked their diamond anniversary.
Princess Elizabeth married Lt. Philip Mountbatten in Westminster Abbey on Nov 20, 1947, in fro
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Bollywood promo sparks protests |
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MUMBAI: Promotional posters for a new Bollywood thriller, showing leading actress Kareena Kapoor from behind and apparently naked from the waist up, have got some people’s backs up in India. “Kurbaan” hits screens in India and more than 25 countries around the world on Friday and has attracted inten
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Myanmar urged to free 2,000 activists |
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UNITED NATIONS: A key UN committee late on Thursday strongly condemned human rights violations in Myanmar and urged the government to release more than 2,000 political prisoners and open the upcoming elections to all political parties. Myanmar’s United Nations Ambassador Than Swe accused the Europea
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‘Colombia will not be provoked by Venezuela’ |
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BOGOTA: Colombia will not be provoked into armed conflict with Venezuela despite the neighboring country’s aggressive rhetoric and its dynamiting of two cross-border pedestrian bridges, Colombia’s defence minister said on Friday.
“We will not be provoked. The insults bounce off us,” Gabri
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