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Iranians witnessed N. Korea’s test: Allegation at US senate hearing
WASHINGTON, July 20: One or more Iranians witnessed North Korea’s recent missile tests, deepening US concerns about growing ties between two countries with troubling nuclear capabilities, a top US official said on Thursday.... 
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US House backs Israel in Middle East crisis
WASHINGTON, July 20: The US House of Representatives on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to support Israel in its new Middle East battles in a resolution which blamed Syria and Iran for the violence....
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Economic growth provides little for poorest: UN GENEVA, July 20: Snowballing urbanisation and economic growth in the world’s poorest nations are creating too few opportunities for their citizens, leaving them vulnerable in the face of competitive and increasingly open world markets, a UN study warned on Thursday....
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Two charged with plotting against US
WASHINGTON, July 20: Two US Muslims, one of Pakistani and the other of Bangladeshi origin, have been accused of plotting to bomb institutions in the United States like the Capitol Hill...
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US raid killed 10: Kabul
KABUL, July 20: An enquiry appointed by President Hamid Karzai has found that 10 civilians were killed in a US raid on Taliban in southern Afghanistan last week, a presidential spokesman said on rsday....
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Iran leader seeks Merkel help on Zionism
BERLIN, July 20: A letter written by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to German Chancellor Angela Merkel asks her to help solve the Palestinian problem and deal with Zionism, a German government official said on Thursday....
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Russia in ‘no hurry’ on Iran issue
UNITED NATIONS, July 20: Once again United States and Russia are divided on the approach to the Iranian nuclear programme which was sent to the UN Security Council, after Iran did...
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US had mole in PM office: Jaswant
NEW DELHI, July 20: The United States had a mole in former Indian prime minister P. V. Narasimha Rao’s office and “we are still being snooped,” former foreign minister Jaswant Singh was quoted on Thursday as saying....
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Marines evacuate 1,000
WASHINGTON, July 20: A US amphibious assault ship took aboard more than 1,000 people and departed Beirut without incident Thursday in the first major military-run evacuation of US citizens from Lebanon....
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Ethiopian troops cross into Somalia
MOGADISHU, July 20: Somalia’s Islamists vowed a ‘holy war’ on Thursday against Ethiopian troops crossing into the Horn of Africa nation, while Addis Ababa threatened to ‘crush’ any attack on the interim government it supports....
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Outrageous Israeli attacks and the world’s silence
LOS ANGELES: Apparently suffering from amnesia, Israel now says that its extraordinary collective punishment of the entire Lebanese population is intended to stop rocket attacks across its northern border....
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Anger grows in Haifa
HAIFA (Israel): Ola Khalil wipes tears from her eyes as she talks of the salvo of Hezbollah rockets, one of which hit her neighbour’s house in Haifa....
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Bush confronts limits of power in crises
WASHINGTON: Bogged down in two foreign wars, confronted by twin nuclear threats and seemingly powerless to halt a new Middle East crisis, President George W. Bush is learning hard lessons about the limits of US power....
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Earth facing a major bio-diversity crisis: experts
LONDON: The Earth is on the brink of “major biodiversity crisis” fuelled by the steady destruction of ecosystems, a group of the world’s most distinguished scientists and policy experts say....
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Lebanese in urgent need of relief
BEIRUT: With international aid agencies warning of a humanitarian crisis, Lebanon’s trapped families are desperately stocking up on food and emergency supplies as Israel pursues its deadly military bombardment with no sign of a let-up....
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A protracted colonial war
LONDON: In his last interview — after the 1967 six-day war — the historian Isaac Deutscher, whose next-of-kin had died in the Nazi camps and whose surviving relations lived in Israel,...
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G8 transforms Putin’s image
SAINT PETERSBURG: Russian President Vladimir Putin, once seen in the West as a spymaster with an iron fist, has passed the media test at the G8 summit with flying colours, analysts say....
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