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Keep leaders’ kin out: Antony panel

The A.K. Antony Committee, set up by Congress president Sonia Gandhi to examine reasons for the party’s poor showing in the recent Assembly elections, has in its report disapproved of the practice of

Greece votes as anxious eurozone looks on

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Greeks voted on Sunday in a tough-to-predict general election that threatened to turn the crisis-hit country's old political system on its head and bring eurozone turmoil back with a vengeance.

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85 pc Indian-Americans support Obama for second term: Survey

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The Indian-American community has come out in strong support of US President Barack Obama, who kicked off his re-election campaign with two rallies in Ohio and Virginia, with an overwhelming 85 per ce

Post Antony report, Congress mends ways

The findings of Congress leader A.K. Antony's ‘post mortem’ report on the party's humiliating election rout in Goa in March already appears to have had an effect.

According to state Congress presiden

Mass detentions in Egypt after deadly Cairo clashes

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Egypt's military ruler attended on Saturday an unprecedented public funeral for a soldier killed in clashes with protesters as the army detained 179 people over the violence in the run-up to landmark

British PM's party suffers heavy losses in mid-term polls

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Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party took a bashing on Friday in mid-term local elections, capping a bad month for the government after Britain slid back into recession.

The main opposit

Socialist on track for win as French campaign closes

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Socialist Francois Hollande was on track to defeat right-wing incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy as France saw the final day of campaigning on Friday before its presidential election run-off.

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Antony report cites number of reasons for UP poll debacle

Perception of corruption, price rise, wrong ticket distribution, controversial campaigning and poor organizational structure on the ground were main reasons for party's debacle in Uttar Pradesh Assemb

Republicans 'don't bother' for women: Obama

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President Barack Obama took a jab at his Republican foes Friday over women's rights, saying they always wanted less regulation except when it comes to health issues, an issue that has pervaded the Whi

US vice president uses bin Laden to hammer Romney

US Vice President Joe Biden saluted his boss on Thursday as a man of steel who neutralised Osama bin Laden, as he reduced Republican White House hopeful Mitt Romney to a foreign policy neophyte "mired

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