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Australian PM accused of deception over Iraq
SYDNEY, Aug 8: A group of more than 40 former Australian diplomats and defence chiefs accused Prime Minister John Howard in a public statement issued on Sunday of deceiving the country over the reasons for the Iraq war. ... 
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Terror reign gives Bush new hope
The fattest factor in America's election year hasn't flamed, or even singed, yet. But another hot week of orange alerts, white knuckles and scarlet blushes begins to pose the inevitable awful problem. ...
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Detention of UK suspects extended
LONDON, Aug 8: British police got more time to question nine men arrested in anti-terror raids earlier this week after a court granted a custody extension on Sunday, a police spokeswoman said. ...
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Israel okays expansion of controversial settlement
JERUSALEM, Aug 8: Israel was on collision course with US again on Sunday after it approved the construction of hundreds of new houses in one of the largest and most controversial of the West Bank settlements. ...
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Arab FMs rally around Sudan in Darfur crisis
CAIRO, Aug 8: Arab states rallied around Sudan on Sunday in its bid to avoid United Nations sanctions over atrocities in the Darfur region, saying the Khartoum government needed more time to resolve the crisis. ...
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28 Africans die in attempt to reach Italy
ROME, Aug 8: Twenty-eight would-be refugees died attempting to reach Italy by boat from north Africa, Italian police said on Sunday, citing accounts from some of the 74 survivors rescued by a freighter off the Sicilian coast. ...
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1m face famine as locusts swarm Africa
NOUAKCHOTT, Aug 8: Nearly a million people in West Africa face famine unless they get international aid to battle swarms of locusts devouring their crops in the region's worst plague in 15 years, farmers and government experts warned. ...
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India braces for glacial floods
NEW DELHI, Aug 8: India braced for fresh floods on Sunday after China warned that water from a melting glacial lake in Tibet could spill into two northern Indian states in 24 hours. ...
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Chandrika ready for talks with LTTE
COLOMBO, Aug 8: The government of President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga has conveyed to the Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Vidar Helgessan that the government is ready to talk to the LTTE. ...
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Maoists picket Nepal beauty pageant
KATHMANDU, Aug 8: Supporters of Maoist rebels fighting to turn Nepal into a secular republic joined forces with Hindu activists to picket the kingdom's premier beauty pageant. ...
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Nixon: a scandal from the past
WASHINGTON: During the past three decades Americans have had their share of presidential scandals, from Bill Clinton's sexual escapades to the Ronald Reagan White House's illegal sale of arms to Iran. ...
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Democracy still not in sight in Myanmar
BANGKOK: Democracy is still nowhere in sight in Myanmar sixteen years after the bloodiest massacre of unarmed demonstrators in a mass uprising of students ...
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