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India Cargo Ship at Haldia Dock in Midnapore in West Bengal in Eastern India ----- WN/BHASKAR MALLICK Exports grow 21% at $303.7 billion, deficit widens to record high
Tweet | India's exports grew 21 per cent and marginally crossed the exports target at USD 303.7 billion in 2011-12 over the previous fiscal. | Imports shot up by 32.1 per cent to USD 488.6 billion, le... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick) The Times Of India
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File - In this Wednesday, April 11, 2012 photo, a Tuareg separatist rebel from the NMLA (National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad) stands guard at a checkpoint near the airport in Timbuktu, Mali. Mali's military leaders 'repel counter coup'
| Mali's ruling military leaders have said in a message aired over state television said that they are in control of the state broadcaster building, the airport, and the milit... (photo: AP) Al Jazeera
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Gold ring-India. Gold hits 2-week high as US data weighs on dollar
Tweet SINGAPORE: Spot gold hit a two-week high on Tuesday, extending gains from the previous session, as the dollar remained under pressure from US data that suggests slower momentum in economic recov... (photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam) The Times Of India
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Agricultural land-farm-India. Agricultural Credit: Why are the government funds to boost agriculture not reaching small farmers
Tweet April and May are months of waiting and organising for Indian farmers. As they wait for the monsoon rains to plant a new crop, they are organising money to buy seeds and fertilisers. This sugges... (photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam) The Times Of India
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Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood supporters hold a banner reading in Arabic ' No for beating civilians in Syria', during an anti-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad' in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, June 24, 2011. Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood supporters gathered near the Syrian embassy in Cairo following the weekly Friday prayers chanting anti-Syrian regime slogans and protesting what they claimed ' The Syrian regime brutality against civilians' From prisoners to rulers: Mobilising for Arab democracy
| The Arab Spring has precipitated the rise of new politicians: formerly excluded or incarcerated non-state actors who are, today, either claimants of the state - or at least serious power bidders. | ... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb) Al Jazeera
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Dubai- Jumeirah Lakes Towers - Metro Station (United Arab Emirates) UAE enjoys high degree of safety and stability
Shaikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research said the United Arab Emirates enjoys a high degree of safety and stability. | "The economy continues to grow a... (photo: WN / Prajkta) Khaleej Times
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A Chinese paramilitary police officer stands guard at the entrance of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, Sunday, April 29, 2012. EU urges 'restraint' in Chinese activist case
| The European Union has urged China to exercise "utmost restraint" in its handling of the blind dissident Chen Guangcheng, who escaped house arrest last week and is believed to be under US protection... (photo: AP / Vincent Thian) Al Jazeera
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In this Friday, Dec. 30, 2011 photo, people shop in a market in Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Iraqis are again segregating themselves along sectarian lines, prompted by a political crisis pulling at the explosive Sunni-Shiite divide just weeks after the American withdrawal left Iraq to chart its own future. The numbers so far are small and not easy to track with precision, but anecdotal accounts and a rise in business at real estate agencies in Sunni neighborhoods reveal a Sunni community contemplating the worse-case scenario and acting before it's too late. Iraq's sagging safety net
| In February 2011, with grassroots uprisings having toppled the governments of Tunisia and Egypt, unrest was swelling in Iraq as well. In response, the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ann... (photo: AP / Hadi Mizban) Al Jazeera
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