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Israel kills three in W. Bank offensive
NABLUS, Sept 30: Israeli forces killed two Palestinian fighters and a teenager in the occupied West Bank on Friday, pressing ahead with raids against militants despite a halt to cross-border rocket salvoes from the Gaza Strip.... 
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Fatah leading in municipal election
RAMALLAH, Sept 30: The ruling Palestinian movement Fatah held off on Friday a challenge from the radical Islamists of Hamas in a fresh round of elections in the West Bank where more deadly violence flared....
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WHO backs away from forecast of 150m flu deaths
GENEVA, Sept 30: The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday 2-7.4 million deaths was a reasonable working forecast for a global influenza pandemic — distancing itself from a top UN official’s figure of up to 150 million....
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Algerians vote for amnesty plan
ALGIERS, Sept 30: Algerians have voted overwhelmingly to turn the page on a decade of brutal civil war by offering a partial amnesty to hundreds of militants....
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Ex-official’s remarks against blacks spark furore in US
WASHINGTON, Sept 30: The White House on Friday branded ‘not appropriate’ a political ally’s assertion that aborting every black baby in the United States would reduce the national crime rate....
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Myers warns against Iraq pullout
WASHINGTON, Sept 30: Air Force Gen Richard Myers ended four years as the top US military officer on Friday with a warning that pulling out of Iraq would only make the United States more vulnerable....
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Spider find sparks DNA hopes
LONDON, Sept 30: A British scientist revealed on Friday he has discovered a prehistoric spider preserved in amber, possibly meaning its DNA could be extracted — just as in the blockbuster film, ‘Jurassic Park’....
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CPJ condemns handling of NYT case
NEW YORK, Sept 30: Expressing relief over the release of New York Times reporter Judith Miller from a US prison, the Committee to Protect Journalists on Friday decried ‘the long-term damage...
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Reports of rape, murder in Katrina’s aftermath exaggerated
A SERIES of articles over the past week show that the widespread reports of massive looting, murder and violence in hurricane-devastated New Orleans were either concocted out of whole cloth or grossly exaggerated....
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Arabs want substance, not style, from US
ISTANBUL: When Karen Hughes met Egyptians on a boat floating on the Nile River on the second day of her Middle East tour, she wore a piece of jewellery she had...
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New US opera explores birth of atomic bomb
LOS ANGELES: An opera is not supposed to be over until the fat lady sings. Or, in the case of a new work being premiered this week, until an atomic bomb explodes....
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A case of moral and financial reparation
RIO DE JANEIRO: I can understand the shock the July bombings caused in Britain. I have lived in London, and we want to show solidarity in the fight against terror....
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