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Hamas ready for talks with Abbas
ME Quartet mulls Blair appointment
Sacked Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya yesterday repeated his readiness for talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to end the crisis stemming from his movement's seizure of Gaza.
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Pivotal vote looms on US immigration
US Senators urging the passage of a bill that would legalise millions of illegal immigrants hope to revive bipartisan support for the embattled measure and push it to passage by week's end.
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Arrest warrant issued against Sunni minister
Iraqi authorities issued an arrest warrant against the Sunni culture minister and raided his home yesterday after he was accused of ordering an assassination attempt against a secular Sunni politician
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Maoists blockade eastern India over economic zones
Maoist rebels in eastern Indian blew up a section of railway track, attacked trains and paralysed public transport at the start of a 48-hour blockade aimed at derailing government plans to establish special
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Cyclone kills 14 on Pakistan coast
A powerful cyclone lashed Pakistan's southern coast yesterday, killing at least 14 people, leaving dozens more missing and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes, officials said.
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US starlet Paris Hilton walks free from jail
Smiling and waving to the scrum of cameras, the celebrity socialite Paris Hilton trotted free from jail in California on Tuesday after serving three weeks for driving-related violations.
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Europe hit by deadly drought and floods
A searing heatwave has killed at least 40 people across southern Europe while in Britain torrential rain has killed three people and forced hundreds to flee a creaking dam.
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N Korea, IAEA to talk N-reactor shutdown
UN nuclear monitors arrived in North Korea on Tuesday to discuss the communist nation's plans to fulfill its long-delayed pledge to shut down its main nuclear reactor.
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Rift appears in BJP-Shiv Sena ties over presidency
Rift appeared yesterday between the BJP and the Shiv Sena as the saffron party accused its oldest ideological ally from Maharasthra of entering into a deal with the Congress by supporting UPA-Left Presidential
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New Palestinian govt is 'lackey', says Iran
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday dismissed as a "lackey government" Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's emergency cabinet headed by Salam Fayyad, the official IRNA news agency said.
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