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Iraqi Shias seek tough Sunni stand on Zarqawi: Killings of civilians
BAGHDAD, Sept 18: Iraqi Shia leaders urged Sunnis on Sunday to take a tough stand against radical militants in the face of al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s declaration of a war against Shias.... 
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World Bank considers return to Baghdad
WASHINGTON: Two years after a deadly bombing caused the World Bank to pull its staff out of Iraq, bank President Paul Wolfowitz is considering sending it back, according to bank officials....
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Bullets, ballots and burqas highlight Afghan polls
KANDAHAR, Sept 18: There’s a buzz at the Zarghona Ana school for girls on the baking edge of Afghanistan’s Registan desert on Sunday. Playful chatter and laughter bounce off the thick,...
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Women in Afghanistan move out of shadows
KANDAHAR: With a mixture of pride and confusion, women in this stronghold of the Taliban regime that barred them from public life were determined to vote in Sunday’s landmark elections....
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US ‘reposturing’ in Pacific: Stealth aircraft ‘symbol of new times’
ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE (Guam): A dull-grey B-2 bomber sat poised in a typhoon-proof air-conditioned hangar, its bat wings stretching 172 feet across. The bomb bay was fitted for 80 GPS-guided...
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Israel told not to meddle in Hamas vote row
GAZA CITY, Sept 18: Mahmud Abbas warned against any interference in Palestinian affairs on Sunday after Israel intensified its threats to disrupt January’s parliamentary elections if the Hamas movement takes part....
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Influence of the departed governs life in Madagascar
MAHAJANGA (Madagascar): Like other mediums at the annual ‘Fanompoana’ festival in northwest Madagascar, Zo Andrianikenindraza is believed by the Sakalava tribe to be capable of hosting an ancestral spirit....
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Hamas gears up for run at parliament
DEIR AL BALAH (Gaza Strip): It was hours before dawn, and the last Israeli troops and armour had just rolled out of the dust-choked Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom....
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Shark attacks spark debate in Australia
SYDNEY: In a life-and-death struggle, Australian surfer Jake Heron punched the great white shark as it bit his arm and thigh, turning the ocean into a bloody cauldron....
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Putin opposes sanctions on Iran
WASHINGTON, Sept 18: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said Iran was cooperating “sufficiently” with the UN’s nuclear watchdog over its suspect atomic programme and warned UN sanctions could cause new “problems”, in an interview with US television broadcast on Sunday....
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Schroder vs Merkel — in Hindukush mountains BERLIN, Sept 18: Hundreds of Germans voted in their dramatic national election while striving to keep the peace during another historic poll thousands of kilometres away....
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Mugabe accuses US of racism
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 18: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Sunday accused the United States of deliberately neglecting homeless black victims of Hurricane Katrina while condemning him for demolishing urban slums....
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