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Iraqi parliament stands united over Israel
BAGHDAD, July 16: Shia, Sunni and Kurdish lawmakers in Iraq’s US-backed parliament often fail to see eye to eye, but on Sunday they stood united in their condemnation of Israel’s military offensive against Lebanon.... 
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Africa’s woes on top of G8 agenda
ST PETERSBURG, July 16: World leaders pledged on Sunday to keep Africa’s woes in mind and to track actively their progress on cutting poverty and supporting development, a move welcomed by campaigners....
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Guerillas kill 12 Turkish soldiers
ANKARA, July 16: Kurdish guerillas, staging attacks from northern Iraq, ambushed and killed seven soldiers and one village guard inside Turkey, authorities announced on Sunday....
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Blair says he is not stepping down
LONDON, July 16: British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Sunday scotched notions that he might quit office in the coming months as bad news piles up for his governing Labour Party....
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More than 200 killed in clashes over land
KHARTOUM, July 16: At least 230 people were killed or injured in clashes in Darfur between two tribes fighting for control over grazing land in the area, a Sudanese official was quoted as saying on Sunday....
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‘Sudan must accept more peacekeepers’
ADDIS ABABA, July 16: Former US President Bill Clinton called on Sunday for pressure to be exerted on Sudan’s government to accept a larger and stronger peacekeeping force to restore peace in the country’s western Darfur region....
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Head of Iraq’s oil company kidnapped
BAGHDAD, July 16: The head of Iraq’s North Oil Company, Adel Qazaz, was kidnapped in Baghdad on Sunday, an oil ministry official said....
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Israel’s most modern ship destroyed
LONDON: The Israeli warship hit on Friday off the Lebanese coast is a multi-purpose, helicopter-carrying corvette of the US-built Saar 5 class, one of the world’s first warships to use stealth technology....
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Nasrallah: Hezbollah’s military mastermind
BEIRUT: Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Lebanese Hezbollah movement at the heart of the latest Middle East crisis, is a charismatic and skilled negotiator and arguably one of the most powerful people in Lebanon....
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Lebanese flee on foot for ‘safety’ of Tyre
TYRE (Lebanon): Carrying only their children, thousands of Lebanese villagers trudged across rugged valleys and braved aerial bombardments on Sunday to seek refuge in the southern port city of Tyre after...
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Discovery cleared to return to Earth
CAPE CANAVERAL, July 16: Mission Control on Sunday gave the green light for Discovery to attempt landing on Monday, concluding that inspections of the space shuttle’s protective skin showed no signs of damage....
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N. Korea rejects UN sanctions vote
SEOUL, July 16: North Korea said on Sunday it was not bound by a UN Security Council resolution imposing weapons-related sanctions on it and insisted the country would ‘bolster its war deterrent’ in every way....
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Typhoon death toll rises to 115
BEIJING, July 16: Torrential rainstorms and flooding unleashed by Typhoon Bilis killed at least 115 people across southeast China, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday....
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‘Militants active in Spain’
MADRID, July 16: Police have warned that Spain remains a centre for recruitment of radical Islamic fundamentalists, a newspaper reported on Sunday....
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Heavy rain kills 10 in South Korea
SEOUL, July 16: South Korea issued a national crisis warning on Sunday as torrential rain caused flooding in parts of the country, killing 10 people and leaving 17 missing and presumed dead....
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Impotence of Arab world exposed
CAIRO: The spiralling Middle East crisis sparked by the seizure of three Israeli soldiers has exposed deep divisions within the Arab world and forced its leaders into a frank admission of helplessness....
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Haifa attack surprises Israeli leaders
AL QUDS: Five days of fighting have given Israel pause to reevaluate the strength of one of its most hardened enemies — Hezbollah....
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Iraqis search in vain for their missing
BAGHDAD: Underneath the blazing sun at Baghdad’s Allawi bus station hundreds of families from across Iraq’s sectarian divide await the arrival of the latest batch of freed prisoners in the hope of finding a long-missing relative....
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