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Hezbollah should be part of any solution: Russia
MOSCOW, July 28: Any agreements aimed at resolving the Israel-Lebanon conflict should include coordination with Hezbollah, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.... 
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US troops accused of murdering Iraqi prisoners WASHINGTON, July 28: A US sergeant has described the allegedly deliberate murder of three Iraqi prisoners and its cover-up by his squad, and how his squad leader threatened to kill anyone who talked, The New York Times said on Friday....
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Shia leader opposes US move: 25,000 soldiers for Iraq this year
NAJAF, July 28: One of Iraq’s most influential Shia leaders rejected on Friday the use of US forces to stabilise Iraq’s security situation, as the Pentagon announced an increase in troop numbers....
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US urged to close down secret jails
UNITED NATIONS, July 28: The UN Human Rights Committee on Friday issued a strongly worded critique of the US government’s rights record at home and abroad, calling upon Washington to close down all secret detention facilities....
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Lebanese closing ranks behind Hezbollah
BEIRUT: A rally of well-dressed middle-class ladies, perhaps 40 in all, protested outside the UN’s offices here on Wednesday, calling for a ceasefire. Representing the Lebanese Council of Women, they handed out leaflets appealing to Kofi Annan to get something done....
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Lashkar plans to ‘hit Indian N-plants’
NEW DELHI, July 28: India has been warned by its intelligence agencies that the Lashkar-i-Tayyaba could target its nuclear installations, National Security Adviser M. K. Narayanan said on Friday....
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Somali minister assassinated at mosque
BAIDOA, July 28: Gunmen shot dead a Somali minister outside a mosque on Friday in what a cabinet colleague called a ‘terrorist action’ at the interim government’s provincial base Baidoa....
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UN withdraws some observers from border
UNITED NATIONS, July 28: The UN peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon has withdrawn eight unarmed observers from two observations posts along the border with Israel, the United Nations said on Friday....
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Israeli jets in action after drone crash
BEIRUT, July 28: An Israeli drone crashed into the mountains east of Beirut on Friday, prompting heavy Israeli air strikes on the area to stop it falling into the hands of Hezbollah guerrillas, Lebanese security sources said....
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Five LTTE men killed in bombing
COLOMBO, July 28: Five guerrillas belonging to the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) were killed on Thursday when the Sri Lankan air force bombed a guerrilla stronghold in Trincomalee, where the Colombo government...
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Israel’s military chief in hospital
JERUSALEM, July 28: Israel’s military chief Lt-Gen Dan Halutz was briefly taken to hospital on Friday after feeling unwell but was later allowed to go home, Israel’s Channel 10 television reported.—Reuters...
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Encounter with an Islamist
INSIDE the Imam al-Mehdi school in Ouzai, a Lebanese village near the Israel-Lebanon border, seven coffins lay in a row. Outside, men were preparing for their burial when a small convoy...
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Novelist linked to real-life plot
LONDON: The Dogs of War, Frederick Forsyth’s 1974 bestseller about an attempt by mercenaries to topple the government of a mineral-rich African republic, was closer to fact than readers may realise....
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Pranksters arrested in Delhi
NEW DELHI: Three pranksters were arrested on Friday for breaching security by driving into Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s residential compound, police said. Two air hostesses and a man, who said...
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