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Syrians asked not to use Russian missiles: Moscow sends message to Damascus
DAMASCUS, July 25: Moscow has asked Syria not to use Russian missiles to retaliate if attacked by Israel, diplomats said on Tuesday. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Saltanov delivered the message... 
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Hezb not under Iran, Syria’s sway: US official’s assessment
WASHINGTON, July 25: Syria can do far more to rein in Hezbollah, such as stopping arms flows into Lebanon, but is not capable of putting the militia ‘out of business’, a top counterterrorism official of the United States said on Tuesday....
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French plan at odds with US
PARIS, July 25: France on Tuesday demanded a political agreement between Israel and Lebanon, including a commitment by Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah, before the deployment of an international force in the region....
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Heat wave kills 40 in France
PARIS, July 25: Around 40 people in France, mostly elderly, have died in a heatwave over the past week and the Netherlands is poised to record its hottest July since records began....
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Israelis targeting civilians with cluster bombs: HRW
BEIRUT: Heavily bandaged with only his eyes and mouth showing, 18-year-old Zakaria Alamedin lies in a Beirut hospital, still unaware that his father died in the rocket attack which burnt his face....
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Probable solutions
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held talks in Israel on Tuesday on ways to end the two-week-old war in Lebanon, a day after making tough proposals in Beirut....
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Democrats seek Iraqi PM’s apology: Remarks against Israel
WASHINGTON, July 25: US congressional Democrats voiced alarm on Tuesday over Iraq’s denunciation of Israel in the Middle East conflict, and some said Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki’s upcoming address to Congress should be cancelled unless he apologises....
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Irish ‘Dead Sea Scrolls’ found
DUBLIN, July 25: The discovery of an ancient Book of Psalms in a bog in the south Irish midlands was hailed on Tuesday by the National Museum as the country’s equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls....
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700,000 evacuated as typhoon strikes China
BEIJING, July 25: Typhoon Kaemi struck the southeast coast of China on Tuesday, sparking the evacuation of more than 700,000 people in an area still reeling from a tropical storm that claimed over 600 lives....
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14 NGOs urge Blair to call for ceasefire
LONDON, July 25: Fourteen NGOs, including Amnesty International and Oxfam, urged British Prime Minister Tony Blair to call for an ‘immediate ceasefire’ at the Rome international conference on Wednesday on the Middle East conflict....
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N-plan is defensive, says Delhi
NEW DELHI, July 25: India’s nuclear weapons are only for defence and will never be used in a first strike or against a non-nuclear state, the defence minister said ahead of...
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S. Korean FM leads race for top UN job
UNITED NATIONS, July 25: South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki Moon became the front-runner as the Security Council on Monday set the stage to choose the next secretary general of the United Nations to replace Kofi Annan....
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Saddam’s health alarms lawyers
AMMAN, July 25: Defence lawyers for hunger-striking former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein said on Tuesday they were ‘profoundly worried’ about his health and vowed to pursue their boycott of the trial....
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18th-century ship discovered
SAINT MALO (France), July 25: The wreck of a second ship from the early 18th century has been identified by underwater archaeologists working off the Brittany coast in northwest France, officials said Tuesday....
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Athens to have its first mosque
ATHENS, July 25: After years of delay, the Greek government on Tuesday unveiled a location for the first modern mosque in Athens, the European Union’s only capital without a Muslim place of worship....
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Israel wants to dictate Lebanese politics
LONDON: For nearly two weeks Israel has been waging a war of terror and aggression against Lebanon. Its stated justification is the capture by the Islamic Resistance (Hezbollah) of two Israeli soldiers with the aim of exchanging them for Lebanese prisoners....
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In Nasrallah, Egyptians see another Nasser
CAIRO: As Egypt commemorated the nationalisation of the Suez canal, some opposition leaders and newspapers on Tuesday compared Gamal Abdel Nasser and Lebanon’s Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah....
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Attacks alienate Palestinians
MAGHAZI REFUGEE CAMP (Gaza Strip): The latest Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, in which some of the businesses which help keep the impoverished area afloat were destroyed, appears to be alienating even the most moderate of Palestinians....
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US battle against spam stalls
WASHINGTON: The US effort to curb the flood of unwanted e-mail or “spam” has lost momentum, a survey showed on Monday, leaving the United States at the top of the heap for this scourge of the Internet....
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German woman mails python
BERLIN: A German woman sparked panic at her local post office when a 1.5-metre (5-foot) albino python escaped from a packet she had mailed, police said on Tuesday....
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