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Lebanese speaker rejects Rice package
BEIRUT, July 24: Lebanon’s parliament speaker, who doubles as Hezbollah’s de facto negotiator, rejected proposals brought by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday, insisting a ceasefire must precede any... 
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Libya came close to making N-bomb: Qadhafi’s revelation
TRIPOLI, July 24: Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi, whose country abandoned weapons of mass destruction programmes in 2003, said that at one stage Libya had come close to building a nuclear bomb, the Libyan news agency reported on Monday....
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Hunger-striking Saddam boycotts court hearing BAGHDAD, July 24: Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein boycotted the latest hearing in his trial for crimes against humanity on Monday, amid reports that a 17-day-old hunger strike has weakened him....
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Nato cool on peace force
BRUSSELS, July 24: Nato reacted cautiously on Monday to US and Israeli calls for it to lead a peacekeeping force in Lebanon, while diplomats said the military alliance is already hugely stretched, notably in Afghanistan....
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Mendoza adjudged Miss Universe
LOS ANGELES, July 24: Forty minutes into her reign as Miss Universe, Miss Puerto Rico Zuleyka Rivera Mendoza collapsed during a post-pageant news conference and was rushed offstage on Sunday night....
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Haifa attacks ‘like Russian roulette with rockets’
HAIFA (Israel): “I feel like a bowling pin,” a tense Israel Amdurksi says after the latest rocket attack on this northern Israeli port killed two civilians on Sunday....
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Bush overstepped bounds: lawyers
WASHINGTON, July 24: US President George Bush has overstepped the bounds of his office by disregarding selected portions of newly-passed congressional law, a blue-ribbon legal panel said in a report issued on Monday....
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More US troops for Baghdad
BAGHDAD, July 24: Fresh American troops are to be brought into Baghdad, US officers said on Monday, even as Iraq’s embattled government insisted it remains on course to gradually take full control of the country’s security....
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Jordan hub for transfer of suspects: AI
LONDON, July 24: Jordan is a ‘central hub’ in the secret and illegal transfer of people the CIA suspects are terrorists, Amnesty International said on Monday....
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Manna’s fish from heaven
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, July 24: Fish rained down on the Indian village of Manna last week, startling locals who hailed the phenomenon as a miracle. In an echo of the Bible’s manna from...
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Ta Mok: Butcher of the Khmer Rouge
PHNOM PENH: A reputation for cruelty, even by the standards of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime he led, set Ta Mok apart from his revolutionary comrades and earned him the nickname of “The Butcher.”...
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Afghan Nato mission will test European resolve BRUSSELS: Nato faces an uphill battle to bring security to violent southern Afghanistan and analysts question whether the transatlantic alliance is fully prepared for what will be the first true ground war in its history....
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Asean calls for action on Myanmar
KUALA LUMPUR: After decades of turning a blind eye to the Myanmar junta’s authoritarian abuses, south-east Asian countries have announced that they could no longer defend the indefensible....
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Tough choices for Ukraine leader in big crisis
KIEV: President Viktor Yushchenko, the glow of the “Orange Revolution” he led long since faded, faces three options, all of them unpleasant, in finding a way out of Ukraine’s protracted government crisis....
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Syrian border post flooded by refugees
JADAIDA (Syria): For three days after the Israeli jets struck, Samira kept her composure. But on Sunday, as she reached the safety of a frontier post inside Syria’s border with Lebanon, she finally broke down....
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US plan will fail, say diplomats
CAIRO: A vision of a new Middle East emerging from the conflict in Lebanon as outlined by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice drew ridicule on Monday from mainstream Arab analysts and former Arab diplomats....
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Internet ‘wiki’ tool launched
SAN FRANCISCO: Pioneering US technology firm JotSpot launched new internet application software for the masses on Monday that it billed as a leap forward in the evolution of the way people share and edit websites....
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India protests to US over arrests
NEW DELHI: India has lodged a protest with the US embassy here, accusing it of using an initiative against Internet crime as a cover for spying activities, a report said on Monday....
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BD set to become Asean ‘partner’
DHAKA: Bangladesh is set to become the 26th partner of the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean), opening up a new window for constructive dialogue on issues of common concerns in the Asia Pacific region....
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Lankan Muslims for autonomy
COLOMBO: The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), the main political party representing the country’s seven per cent Muslim population, on Sunday unveiled proposals to safeguard the rights of Muslims in the northeast of the country....
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