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Iraq war is not winnable, says expert WASHINGTON, Aug 28: Like Vietnam, the war in Iraq is not winnable because there are no clear military targets to achieve, says an article published in The Washington Post on Sunday....		Main points of Iraqi draft constitution BAGHDAD, Aug 28: Iraqi leaders presented the final draft of a new constitution to parliament on Sunday. The draft constitution brings in a federal system of government with Islamic law as...
UK plans to deport ‘radical’ Muslims: Newspaper report LONDON, Aug 28: Britain was preparing to round up a clutch of radicals for deportation as its crackdown on ‘unacceptable behaviour’ kicks in, newspapers said on Sunday....		Blair was told about Muslims’ anger: daily LONDON, Aug 28: British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s office was warned over a year before the July London bombings that the war in Iraq was fuelling Muslim extremist recruitment in Britain, a newspaper said on Sunday....
Talabani won’t sign Saddam’s death sentence BAGHDAD, Aug 28: Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said in remarks on Sunday that he would not sign a death sentence against his ousted predecessor Saddam Hussein even if it costs him his job....		Sharon’s son indicted over corruption scandal JERUSALEM, Aug 28: A district tribunal indicted Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s son Omri on Sunday in connection with a corruption probe into the funding of his father’s leadership campaign, judicial sources said....
German military camp attacked KABUL, Aug 28: A lone rocket struck a German military camp in Afghanistan on Sunday — two days before Defence Minister Peter Struck’s arrival in the country....		Author decries Africa’s ‘vampire-like’ leaders JOHANNESBURG: British writer Martin Meredith pulls no punches in his assessment of Africa: it is a bloody mess, its leaders are to blame, and no amount of aid from the West will solve that....
Soap opera lures Brazilians to US BRASILIA: Brazilians are illegally entering the United States in record numbers in hopes of finding jobs and better lives — just like characters in a wildly popular Brazilian soap opera America....		Sri Lanka’s Tamils fear return to civil war JAFFNA: Displaced four times by Sri Lanka’s two-decade civil war with the Tamil Tigers, 22-year-old Nirmalashanthi Vijayakanth is ecstatic to finally settle into the first home she can call her own....
Sharon moves to expand settlements in West Bank MAALE ADUMIM (West Bank): In the tan hills a few miles east of Jerusalem, construction cranes dangle over a string of red-roofed neighbourhoods that comprise the largest Jewish settlement in the West Bank....		New twist to India’s outsourcing saga BANGALORE: At night, 22-year-old Indian mathematics research student Gurpreet Singh logs on to the Internet to teach students sitting thousands of kilometres away in the United States....
Pitfalls precede Afghan vote KABUL: With three weeks left before Afghanistan’s first parliamentary elections since the 1980s, the country is gearing up enthusiastically for a massive exercise in post-war democracy....		‘Spies village’ residents to move to Israel JERUSALEM, Aug 28: Israel plans to take in most inhabitants of a Gaza Strip village shunned by Palestinians as a haven for spies who have helped the Jewish state during nearly four decades of occupation, officials said on Sunday....
202 kidnapped in Nepal KATHMANDU, Aug 28: Maoist rebels in Nepal have torched a bus and abducted 202 people from various places in the past few days, the army alleged on Sunday....		600 workers on strike in Qatar DOHA, Aug 28: Some 600 foreign construction workers, half of them Indian, have gone on strike in Qatar in protest at their employer’s failure to pay their salaries and poor living conditions, an Indian embassy official said on Sunday....
Egyptian force for Gaza JERUSALEM, Aug 28: In a key step to ending Israel’s 38-year-old military presence in Gaza, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s cabinet approved on Sunday the deployment of Egyptian police along Egypt’s border with the strip...