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13 soldiers shot dead in Kirkuk: Seven killed near mosque
BAGHDAD, July 14: Thirty people were killed across Iraq on Friday, including 13 Iraqi soldiers in an attack on their checkpoint near the northern oil hub of Kirkuk.... 
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Sanctions mooted against N. Korea’s arms suppliers: US Senate leader’s move
WASHINGTON, July 14: US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist on Friday proposed imposing on North Korea the same sanctions that Washington has already slapped on Syria and Iran....
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Saudi Arabia criticises Hezbollah
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has accused Hezbollah, without naming it, of “uncalculated adventures” that can precipitate a new Middle East crisis. A Saudi official, quoted by the state Saudi Press Agency, said Hezbollah’s capture of two Israeli soldiers was not legitimate....
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Gaza border wall breached
RAFAH, July 14: Palestinian guerillas blew a six-metre hole in the Gaza-Egypt border wall on Friday, allowing nearly 1,000 Gazans stranded by the closed border to cross home, officials and witnesses said....
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Governments tell nationals to leave Lebanon
PARIS, July 14: Foreigners were on Friday advised to evacuate Lebanon and suspend all travel to the country as Israeli forces pounded suspected Hezbollah strongholds there for the third day, raising fears of full-scale war....
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Bow Street court closes doors forever
LONDON, July 14: London’s Bow Street Magistrates Court, which has seen some of the most dangerous criminals pass through its doors over the centuries on the way to judgment, closed forever on Friday....
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Sons slam mag over Diana death photos
LONDON, July 14: Britain’s princes William and Harry lashed out on Friday at an Italian magazine that published taboo photographs of their mother Princess Diana dying in the wreckage of a Paris car crash....
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US officials rule out war in ME
WASHINGTON, July 14: The Israeli military offensive into Gaza and Lebanon may increase anti-American feelings in the Middle East and the Islamic world but Washington does not see it leading to an all-out Arab-Israel war....
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Canada used Muslim to crack ring, says paper
OTTAWA, July 14: Canada’s security services used a prominent Muslim from Toronto to infiltrate an alleged terror cell behind the failed plot to behead the country’s prime minister, a newspaper said on Thursday....
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400,000-year-old DNA found in bear teeth
STOCKHOLM, July 14: A Swedish-led team of scientists has discovered 400,000-year-old DNA in bear teeth, the Uppsala University in Sweden said on Friday....
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NYT gets envelope with powder
NEW YORK, July 14: The New York Times said on Friday it had received in its mailroom an envelope containing white powder, raising fears of a possible recurrence of anthrax-tainted letters sent to newsrooms and other offices in late 2001....
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UN counsels restraint
UNITED NATIONS, July 14: UN humanitarian officials on Friday urged Israel, the Palestinians and Lebanese Hizbollah militants to refrain from disproportionate responses in the current renewed fighting, avoid attacking civilians, end rocket attacks and release all kidnapped people....
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A tale of two invasions: Egypt and Iraq
LONDON: Britain invaded an Arab country led by a man the prime minister branded a dictator on a par with Hitler, who supported ‘terrorists’ and was said to threaten vital western interests in the region....
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Bush’s indifference drives conflict
LONDON: Israel’s assault on Lebanon, following Hezbollah’s cross-border raid on Wednesday and weeks of unremitting bloodshed in Gaza brought demands on Thursday for international action to contain the crisis and mediate an end to the fighting....
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Echoes of a former British empire
HABANIYAH (Iraq): Lying at the edge of this vast military base, the quiet cemetery of 300 tombstones is a crumbling vestige of the British Empire. Once a Royal Air Force hub, the base now serves US forces....
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A push toward war
WASHINGTON: After Hezbollah guerillas captured Israeli soldiers on Wednesday, a furious Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz warned that the Israeli army would ‘turn back the clock in Lebanon by 20 years’....
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S. Africa ponders Mandela’s legacy
JOHANNESBURG: Nelson Mandela still enters the room with the pizzazz of a movie star, grinning broadly, tossing out jokes and stopping to shake hands with awestruck wellwishers....
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Russia is on a roll
WASHINGTON: Flush with petro-dollars, Russia is again a star on the world stage. Russians have more geopolitical clout than they’ve had for 30 years. Moscow’s new confidence — perhaps overconfidence —...
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