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Israeli troops storm Gaza village
GAZA CITY, July 26: Israeli tanks stormed a town outside Gaza City on Friday, blowing up alleged rocket factories and destroying a police post in the first operation here since a... 
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Russia plans to build another N-plant in Iran
MOSCOW, July 26: The Russian government voiced its right on Friday to build a second nuclear power plant in Iran despite fierce US criticism of an existing project....
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Embassy official suspended for condemning attack
DUBLIN, July 26: A press officer at the Israeli embassy in Dublin has been suspended after Irish newspapers on Friday published a letter she wrote strongly condemning Israel’s deadly air strike...
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Suit filed against fast food giants
NEW YORK, July 26: A lawsuit filed by an obese New Yorker against four leading US fast food chains is testing whether the food industry can be held responsible for health...
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Suharto’s son gets 15 years jail for murder
JAKARTA, July 26: An Indonesian court on Friday sentenced Tommy Suharto, the once untouchable youngest son of the former dictator, to 15 years in prison for the contract murder of a...
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Mubarak asks Sharon to think rationally
PARIS, July 26: Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak has expressed his reservations over the so-called “peace process” taking into account the brutal campaign underway by Israel against Palestinians....
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Neighbours not interfering: Afghan FM
WASHINGTON, July 26: Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah has said that neighbouring nations are no more interfering in the internal affairs of Afghanistan....
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Arab states defer motion
UNITED NATIONS, July 26: Citing differences among the delegates of various countries, the Arab delegates deferred introducing a UN Security Council resolution on Israel’s military strike in Gaza....
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Scientist touts laser to zap asteroid
MOSCOW, July 26: A Russian scientist said on Friday that a massive asteroid said to be heading for Earth could be destroyed with the help of a powerful laser....
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Lankan soldier shot dead
COLOMBO, July 26: The LTTE gunmen shot dead a Sri Lankan soldier on Thursday when he ventured into the Zone of Separation in the Jaffna Peninsula....
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Pentagon debates value of ‘no fly’ zones: Invasion of Baghdad
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon’s continued enforcement of “no-fly” zones over northern and southern Iraq has taken an added importance as the Bush administration weighs whether to invade Iraq, giving defence officials a...
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Tel Aviv becomes Delhi’s main arms supplier
NEW DELHI: The highly secretive Israeli military complex, operating in mysterious ways, has successfully managed to become India’s second largest weapons provider after Russia, a decade after the two nations established...
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Pyongyang draws new puzzles for Seoul
SEOUL: Words of regret from North Korea are even more rare than good economic news from the world’s last communist state, so South Korea is understandably excited at having received both...
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Ring to reveal Elizabeth’s secret
LONDON: The secret which Queen Elizabeth I carried to her deathbed is finally to be publicly revealed after 400 years....
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Kalashnikov sad to see his gun in wrong hands
SUHL (Germany): A proud and smiling Mikhail T. Kalashnikov opened an exhibit in Germany on Friday devoted to his life’s work, admitting it saddens him that his guns have caused such...
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Carter should have bombed Tehran: aide
PASADENA (California): Bombing Tehran would have kept Jimmy Carter in the White House for a second term. Or so his communications director, Gerald Rafshoon, believes....
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