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UN not a ‘rubber stamp’ for US, says HR chief
GENEVA, July 21: The head of a UN human rights body on Friday slammed Washington over its claim that a string of international rules do not apply to the detention centre in Guantanamo Bay or military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.... 
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Hezbollah leaders alive: Nasrallah
RIYADH, July 21: Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said on Friday that the group’s senior leaders had survived the bombardment of what Israel called a bunker earlier in the week....
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Commemoration angers Britain: Bombing of Jerusalem hotel
JERUSALEM, July 21: As Israeli warplanes and artillery pound Lebanon and the Gaza Strip to try to destroy ‘terrorist’ networks, Britain has protested about the commemoration of a Jerusalem hotel bombing...
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Islamists urge Somalis to ready for war
MOGADISHU, July 21: Islamist leaders called on Friday for Somalis to prepare for war, as residents said Ethiopian troops were moving closer to Mogadishu, seat of the Muslim militia now holding much of the Horn of Africa nation....
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Hezbollah using Viet Cong-style tactics: mag
LONDON, July 21: Hezbollah is proving a tough opponent for Israel because of its Viet Cong-style network of tunnels in southern Lebanon, the authoritative Jane’s Defence Weekly magazine said on Friday....
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Bush-Merkel video intrigues Americans
NEW YORK, July 21: A video of US President George Bush giving a spontaneous back-rub to German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the G8 summit in St Petersburg, Russia, has intrigued and scandalized Americans....
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Rice opposes ceasefire, to visit ME tomorrow
WASHINGTON, July 21: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will go to the Middle East on Sunday while resisting international pressure for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon....
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Bush govt okays arms for S. Arabia
RIYADH, July 21: The Bush administration has approved the sale of military arsenal worth more than $6 billion to Saudi Arabia. These include 724 armoured vehicles, 2,300 long-range military radio system and other equipment, besides 24 UH-60L Black Hawk helicopters....
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Israel bombing civilian targets, says escapee
LISBON, July 21: Israel has deliberately bombed civilian targets in Lebanon, including trucks carrying food, in recent days, a Portuguese woman who fled the country said on Friday as she arrived in Lisbon....
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LTTE at odds with EU
KILLINOCHCHI, July 21: A Swedish diplomat failed to persuade the leadership of the Tamil Tigers to drop a demand for the withdrawal of European Union peace monitors who are overseeing the ceasefire between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE....
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Ceasefire is needed immediately: Crisis in Lebanon
BEIRUT: Fear and anger pervade this city in equal measure — fear that Israel’s airstrikes may intensify once the foreigners have all escaped, and anger that the world has failed to impose a ceasefire....
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How the media kept a secret
WASHINGTON: Towards the end of 1979, hundreds of American and Canadian journalists and news organisations got hold of a dynamite news story that would have made personal reputations and careers and sent circulation or broadcast ratings soaring....
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Bombs on a starry night
BEIRUT: I was just finishing work last night and feeling a bit tired when word went round that two British journalists had been kidnapped in central Beirut by Hezbollah....
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Labour has lost its political nerve
LONDON: Parliament draws to a miserable close next week, not a day too soon. The bloody slaughter in the Middle East leaves the government shamefully silent....
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