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Australian citizenship law change boosts Ahmed's Ashes dreams
Reuters(Reuters) - Pakistan-born refugee Fawad Ahmed's Ashes dreams received a major boost on Thursday with the Australian senate passing legislation to fast-track citizenship in special cases. The legislation empowers the immigration minister to apply...Tags: Feminism, Cricket
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India may have to wait to join sensitive nuclear export body
ReutersVIENNA (Reuters) - Some states still appear to be skeptical about letting nuclear-armed India into an influential body regulating sensitive atomic trade, diplomats said on Thursday, suggesting Indian membership may not be imminent. The United States,...Tags: China, Nuclear Weapons, India, International Organizations, Treaties
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Insight: Pakistan influence on Taliban commanders helped Afghan breakthrough
ReutersISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's powerful military has played a central role in convincing Afghanistan's Taliban rebels to hold talks with the United States, U.S. and Pakistani officials said, a shift from widely held views in Washington that it was...Tags: John Kerry, Wars and Interventions, Rebellions, Islamabad (Pakistan), Armed Forces
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End to Fed stimulus, China slowdown spark world sell-off
ReutersLONDON (Reuters) - The clear signal from the U.S. Federal Reserve that it will soon stop pumping money into the global economy and data pointing to Chinese growth slowing sparked sharp falls in bonds, shares and commodities on Thursday. Emerging markets,...Tags: Korean War (1950-1953), SEI Investments Company, International Organizations, Metal, Skin Cancer
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U.S.-Taliban peace talks delayed
ReutersDOHA (Reuters) - A fresh effort to end Afghanistan's 12-year-old war looked in disarray on Thursday after a diplomatic spat about the Taliban's new Qatar office delayed preliminary discussions between the United States and the Islamist insurgents....Tags: Wars and Interventions, John Kerry, Rebellions, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Hamid Karzai
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India win toss and ask Sri Lanka to bat
ReutersCARDIFF (Reuters) - India won the toss and asked Sri Lanka to bat in their Champions Trophy semi-final in Cardiff on Thursday. India named an unchanged side while Sri Lanka made two changes. All-rounder Jeevan Mendis replaced middle-order batsman Dinesh...Tags: Cricket
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Cricket-India win toss and ask Sri Lanka to bat
ReutersCARDIFF, June 20 (Reuters) - India won the toss and asked Sri Lanka to bat in their Champions Trophy semi-final in Cardiff on Thursday. India named an unchanged side while Sri Lanka made two changes. All-rounder Jeevan Mendis replaced middle-order...Tags: Cricket
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WRAPUP 1-Afghan peace bid stumbles on Kabul-Taliban protocol row
Reuters* Protocol spat snarls revived peace bid * Exchange of captives expected to be discussed By Amena Bakr DOHA, June 20 (Reuters) - A fresh effort to end Afghanistan's 12-year-old war looked in disarray on Thursday after a diplomatic spat about the...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Rebellions, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Hamid Karzai, Taliban
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India sets up elaborate system to tap phone calls, e-mail
ReutersNEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has launched a wide-ranging surveillance program that will give its security agencies and even income tax officials the ability to tap directly into e-mails and phone calls without oversight by courts or parliament, several...Tags: Business Enterprises, Privacy Laws, Google Inc., New Delhi (India), Human Rights
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China jails 19 Uighurs for religious extremism
ReutersBEIJING (Reuters) - Courts in China's far western region of Xinjiang have sentenced 19 ethnic Uighurs to up to six years in jail for promoting racial hatred and religious extremism online, in the latest crackdown on what China sees as violent separatists....Tags: China, Culture, Sociology, Punishment
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WRAPUP 6-Afghan government to shun U.S. talks with Taliban
Reuters* Angry Karzai says to stay out of talks * Taliban flag and banner in Doha stir controversy * U.S. secretary of state to travel to Qatar this week * Four American soldiers killed in attack on Bagram base (Adds Hagel comments, paragraphs 13-14) By...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Taliban, Al-Qaeda, Qatar
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