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    Iraq peace "at least five years away"
    Militants' ability may throw U.S. plans awry

    Defection blow to Schroeder
    BERLIN: Germany's embattled Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has suffered another blow when the former chairman of his Social Democrat party (SPD) said he was defecting to a new leftwing alliance. Oskar Lafontaine, who led the party until 1999, said ...

    Flood havoc in Bangladesh
    DHAKA: Two children were killed and more than 100,000 persons were forced out of their homes on Wednesday as flash floods coupled with torrential rains hit northeastern Bangladesh, officials and media reports said. A teenaged boy and a school ...

    Major power outage in Moscow
    MOSCOW: A massive power outage in Moscow wrought havoc to the Russian capital and adjacent regions on Wednesday. A fire in a Moscow power station led to a cascading failure reminiscent of the 2003 blackout in New York. City transport ground ...

    2 reformers cleared in Iran
    TEHERAN: Under pressure from Iran's Supreme Leader, the country's hard-line watchdog reversed itself on Wednesday and said two reformist candidates can run in next month's presidential race — defusing a brewing crisis that had prompted ...

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    Ismail Merchant dead
    LONDON: India-born filmmaker Ismail Merchant, who with partner James Ivory became synonymous with classy costume drama, died in a London hospital, surrounded by friends and family, on Wednesday, a spokesman at Merchant-Ivory's London office said. ...

    Kalam arrives in Geneva
    Switzerland declares May 26 as science day in his honour

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