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Iran says talks with US possible on outpost, air route
ANKARA, July 18: Iran is open to the idea of talks with the United States on establishing a diplomatic presence in Iran and launching a direct air link, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here on Friday.... 
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Indian officials brief IAEA on N-inspection plan
VIENNA, July 18: Senior US and Indian officials met the International Atomic Energy Agency chief on Friday and briefed IAEA governors to resolve questions about India''s plan for expanded nuclear inspections....
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Indian troops kill two Bangladeshi border guards
DHAKA, July 18: Indian Border Security Force gunned down two members of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) on late Thursday night 1.5 km inside Bangladesh territory....
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Mandela celebrates 90th birthday
QUNU (South Africa), July 18: Nelson Mandela, the icon of the anti-apartheid movement and South Africa’s first black president, was marking his 90th birthday on Friday as tributes poured in from around the world....
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Another teenager stabbed in London
LONDON, July 18: British police confirmed on Friday that a youth found stabbed in south London the previous evening was 18 years old, making him the 21st teenager to violently die in the capital....
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Japan moves to restrict knives
TOKYO, July 18: A Japanese police panel has recommended a ban on possession of highly lethal double-edged knives after a troubled young man went on a stabbing spree in central Tokyo....
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When propaganda turns out to be true
LONDON: What happens when myths turn out to be true? I’m talking about the ‘myth’ of the German army’s atrocities in little Belgium in 1914, the raped nuns and the babies spitted on Prussian bayonets....
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Last tsar ahead of Stalin in poll on greatest Russian
MOSCOW: Ninety years after Bolshevik revolutionaries shot dead the last tsar, Russians are fighting over who to lionise: Tsar Nicholas II or Josef Stalin....
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Mayawati’s low-caste politics makes her a role model
GADDOPUR (India): On a muggy monsoon-drenched afternoon, Shakuntala, a rail-thin girl with bloodshot eyes, cooled her father’s visitors with a bamboo fan, trying to ward off the heat and the flies while they feasted on lentils, stewed chicken and hot bread....
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Russia’s weaponry shows signs of age
ZHUKOVSKY (Russia): At a once-secret airfield outside Moscow, test pilot Sergei Bogdan proudly introduces reporters to what was billed as the latest in Russian military aircraft technology, the Su-35 fighter jet....
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