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Deal on Bush-era tax cuts
Washington: In an eleventh-hour compromise, United States President Barack Obama struck a deal with his entrenched Republican opposition to extend Bush-era tax cuts for another two years. The cuts, introduced in 2001 by the former ...

GCC asks Iran to fulfil international requirements
In making the region and Gulf area free of WMD, nuclear weapons

Iran optimistic on co-operation
Sanctions will stall negotiations, warns Tehran

U.N. plea to Nepali parties
New Delhi: U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs B. Lynn Pascoe has warned that the peace process in Nepal is moving into a “critical period” and urged leaders to resolve “issues of integration and ...

U.S. plans to “defend” the Baltic irks Russia
MOSCOW: Russia has said it is bewildered over NATO secret plans to “defend” the Baltic states and Poland against “Russian aggression” as revealed in the latest batch of WikiLeaks spills. “These stories beg a ...

Suu Kyi answers people over radio
WASHINGTON: Radio Free Asia has launched a question and answer show with Aung San Suu Kyi, giving the people of military-ruled Myanmar the rarest of opportunities to communicate directly with the democracy icon. The U.S.-funded ...

Cameron sees Afghan pullout soon
KABUL: British troops may start withdrawing from Afghanistan in 2011, said Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday, during a surprise trip to the country. Since taking office in May, Mr. Cameron said his government had scaled back ...

South Africa honeymoon killing: Husband implicated

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