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Cunego wins Japan Cup as Basso comes third after doping ban

Tokyo - Ivan Basso returned from a doping ban by coming third in the Japan Cup race which saw an Italian podium sweep led by Damiano Cunego.

At least four dead as test-flight helicopter crashes in Russia

Moscow - At least four people were reported killed when a helicopter on a test flight after repairs crashed near Kazan Sunday in the Russian republic of Tatarstan.

Flooding cuts off Spanish exclave in North Africa

Madrid - Flooding triggered by heavy rainstorms has put parts of the Spanish exclave of Melilla in northern Africa under water and cut the city off from the outside, reports said Sunday.

Iraq's Kurdish leader to head to US for security pact negotiations

Baghdad - President Massoud al-Barzani of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region will lead a high-ranking delegation to the United States at the end of the week to discuss Baghdad's long-term security agreement with Washington.

The visit comes at the request of the US Department of State and will take a few days, the head of the region's presidential office, Fouad Hussein, told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency on Sunday.

Hussein did not disclose the names of the delegation members, but said that they would meet with senior US officials.

Lead: Israel's Livni expected to recommend new elections

Jerusalem - Israel Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni postponed by several hours a scheduled meeting with President Shimon Peres Sunday, fueling speculation of last minute negotiations to resolve an impasse which had prevented the formation of a new coalition government.

Livni, who had been scheduled to arrive at Peres' Jerusalem residence at 2 pm, (1200 GMT) received a telephone call from Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik asking her to wait a few hours, according to media reports because Peres had decided to mediate between Livni and her prospective coalition partners.

Livni had been expected to recommend that Peres call for new elections as she had failed to form a new governing coalition. She was now slated to meet Peres at 1500 GMT.

370 Sikh pilgrims from Pakistan visited India on Guru Ta Gaddi Diwas

370 Sikh pilgrims from Pakistan visited India on Guru Ta Gaddi DiwasAmritsar, Oct.26: A group of 370 Sikh pilgrims from Pakistan and some foreign countries crossed over to India on Saturday at Attari border in a religious procession to attend the Guru Ta Gaddi Diwas celebrations at Nanded in Maharashtra.

The group arrived to mark the tercentenary of Guru Granth Sahib at Takht Hazoor Sahib at Nanded. The holy book of Sikhs is revered as living Guru in Sikhism.

Five Sikh Priests as per the Sikh tenets led the religious procession.

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