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SEOUL: South Koreas nuclear safety regulator said on Friday it had approved the restart of one of the country’s 23 nuclear reactors after a scheduled maintenance shutdown since Oct. 1, but five others remain offline.
Asia’s fourth-largest ...
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Lost kingdom: Myanmar’s forgotten royals

YANGON: In a modest Yangon apartment, the granddaughter of Myanmar’s last king lives poor and unrecognised by her neighbours — a far cry from the power and riches of her ancestor.
Princess Hteik Su Phaya Gyi said the childhood days when her ...
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Malawi arrests ex-minister over murder attempt

BLANTYRE, Malawi: Malawi police said Friday they have arrested axed justice minister Ralph Kasambara over a failed assassination attempt on a corruption-busting treasury official.
Paul Mphwiyo, the budget director in the finance ministry, was ...
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Yemen air strikes kill five

ADEN: Two air strikes by the Yemeni air force killed five suspected al-Qaeda members in southern Yemen on Friday, the interior ministry said.
The strikes targeted suspected militants in the town of Al-Mahfad, in the southern province of Abyan, ...
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Syrian opposition refuses to participate in Moscow talks

BEIRUT: Syria’s main Western-backed opposition group has refused to participate in talks in Moscow with Syrian government organisations on resolving the country’s humanitarian crisis, the Russian Foreign Ministry and opposition figures said on ...
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US, Israel lose Unesco voting rights

PARIS: The United States and Israel lost their Unesco voting rights on Friday after suspending funding to the organisation in 2011 when Palestine was admitted, a source from the UN agency told AFP.
Neither the United States nor Israel “presented ...
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Indian Mars mission on track

NEW DELHI: India’s Mars spacecraft has completed the first of a series of engine firings designed to free it from Earths gravitational pull and propel it towards the Red Planet, scientists said on Friday.
The first “orbit-raising manoeuvre”, ...
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Thailand’s Senate postpones vote on amnesty bill

BANGKOK: Thailand’s Senate delayed a vote on Friday on the fate of a contentious amnesty bill that could pave the way for the return from exile of former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was deposed by a 2006 military coup.
The Senate was ...
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Websites of Singapore’s president, PM hacked

SINGAPORE: The websites of Singapore’s president and prime minister have been hacked after it vowed to crack down on activist group Anonymous, which is demanding greater Internet freedom in the city-state, officials confirmed Friday.
A “subpage” ...
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Maldives presidential polls will go ahead this weekend

MALE, Maldives: Maldives insisted on Friday presidential polls set for this weekend would go ahead as it raced to avert a constitutional crisis while the deposed front-runner said he was hoping for a first-round victory.
“God willing, we will ...
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SL students protest closure of universities

COLOMBO: About 2,000 Sri Lankan university students blocked traffic as they shouted slogans outside the capitals main railroad station on Friday to protest a government decision to close state universities during a summit of leaders from ...
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Indonesia, Australia in high seas asylum boat stand-off

JAKARTA: Indonesia and Australia were locked in a high seas stand-off on Friday after Jakarta rejected attempts by an Australian vessel to return scores of asylum seekers to the main island of Java.
The row, which came with tensions already high ...
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Iraq attacks kill seven

BAGHDAD: A series of attacks in Baghdad and central Iraq killed seven people Friday, the latest in a months-long surge in bloodshed that comes in the lead-up to major Shia Muslim commemorations.
In the deadliest incident, two roadside bombs went ...
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Lost generation of elderly Gurkhas struggle in Britain

FARNBOROUGH, England: Retired Captain Birbahadur Thapa served in the British army for 28 years as part of the Brigade of Gurkhas, the fighting force recruited in Nepal whose kukri-wielding soldiers have long been famed as fearsome warriors.
Now ...
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We hope to narrow the gap with Iran in N-talks: Kerry

GENEVA: US Secretary of State John Kerry warned on Friday of significant differences between Iran and six world powers trying to fashion a nuclear agreement, as he and three European foreign ministers added their weight to try to narrow the ...
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Typhoon slams into Philippines, three dead

MANILA: The strongest typhoon in the world this year and possibly the most powerful ever to hit land smashed into the Philippines on Friday, forcing more than a million people to flee, flooding villages and raising fears of widespread ...
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Toronto mayor threatens to kill in new video

TORONTO: Critics and allies alike renewed their claims that Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is not fit to lead Canada’s largest city after a new video surfaced showing the mayor in a rambling rage, threatening to “murder” someone.
His mother defended him ...
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Britain violating Assange’s human rights: Ecuador

PARIS: Britain is “violating” the human rights of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange by its continued refusal to allow him to leave London, Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa told AFP in an interview Friday.
Speaking during a visit to Paris, Correa ...
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China issues alert for typhoon

BEIJING: The China National Marine Environmental Forecasting Centre on Friday issued a warning for very high sea waves generated by typhoon Haiyan.
According to the centre, Haiyan, the 30th and strongest typhoon to hit China this year, is now ...
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Indians flock to Modi as campaign builds steam

BAHRAICH, India: No matter that Indian opposition leader Narendra Modi’s election rally on Friday was held in a field outside a remote town not far from the border with Nepal.
Still they came, on foot, clinging to the back of tractors, crammed ...
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Egypt elections set for spring 2014

MADRID: Egypt said on Friday it would hold parliamentary elections in February or March, with presidential polls in early summer, and that the political arm of ousted president Mohammed Mursi’s banned Muslim Brotherhood could ...
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Marine guilty of murdering Afghan captive

LONDON: A British commando was found guilty on Friday of murdering an injured Afghan insurgent by shooting the captured man in the chest.
The Royal Marine, known only as Marine A, was found guilty of murdering the unknown Afghan national in the ...
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‘Israel only suspect in Arafat assassination’

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: The Palestinians said Friday Israel is the only suspect in the “assassination” of Yasser Arafat, a day after Swiss experts said tests suggested he was killed by polonium poisoning.
Arafat, aged 75, died in ...
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