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Arabs pledge to speed up economic integration
KUWAIT CITY: Arab leaders meeting in Kuwait approved a declaration Tuesday calling for steps to accelerate the economic integration of Arab states and confront the fallout of the global financial...
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Joe Biden sworn in as US Vice President
WASHINGTON: Joe Biden has been sworn in as the 47th vice president of the United States. Biden raised his right hand and took his oath of office Tuesday from Associate Justice John Paul Stevens. In...
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Turkish bombs kill 13 Kurdish rebels in Iraq
BAGHDAD: Turkish armed forces killed 13 Kurdish PKK rebels during an air strike last week in northern Iraq, the state-run news agency Anatolian reported on Friday. The air strike also badly damaged a...
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G7 powers head to Rome as crisis rages
ROME: G7 finance ministers headed to Rome to discuss the global economic crisis on Friday with a warning from Germany that the world could be plunged back into the dark days of the 1930s, if...
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Iran denies holding missing US ex-agent
TEHRAN: The Iranian judiciary denied on Tuesday that it was holding former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who went missing almost two years ago on an island in the Gulf. “We do not have anyone with this...
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Syria wants better ties with US
DAMASCUS: Syria’s president has told a visiting US senator that his country wants to develop relations with the United States after several years of tensions. Syria’s official news agency says Assad...
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Kyrgyz parliament approves US base closure
BISHKEK: Kyrgyzstan’s parliament voted Thursday to close a key U.S. air base in the country a move that could hamper President Barack Obama’s efforts to increase the number of U.S. forces in...
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US wants Swiss bank UBS to identify tax dodgers
WASHINGTON: The United States wants UBS to stop hiding tax cheats. U.S. tax collectors slapped the Swiss-based banking giant with a lawsuit Thursday seeking the identities of tens of thousands of...
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Obama challenges lobbyists to legislative duel
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama challenged the nation’s vested interests to a legislative duel Saturday, saying he will fight to change health care, energy and education in dramatic ways that will...
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US lauds restoration of CJ
WASHINGTON: The United States is praising Pakistan’s plan to reinstate a fired Supreme Court chief justice whose supporters had threatened to march on the capital. State Department spokesman Robert...
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