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N. Korean missiles target US mly in Japan: Seoul body
SEOUL, Aug 3: North Korea has been building new underground missile bases along its east coast, targeting Japan and US military facilities in Japan, a report said on Thursday.... 
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Guantanamo detainees may remain indefinitely: US attorney general’s warning
WASHINGTON, Aug 3: Attor-ney General Alberto Gonzales said on Wednesday that the US government could ‘indefinitely’ hold foreign ‘enemy combatants’ at sites like the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....
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Local govts buying Israeli bonds in US
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 3: As Israeli attacks on Lebanon intensify, investors with Jewish roots as well as other Americans sympathetic to the Jewish state have started buying bonds issued by the government of Israel in a show of solidarity....
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Press urged not to highlight suffering: UK envoy’s plea over Lebanon
RIYADH, Aug 3: Regional press has taken strong note of the British Charge d’Affaires to Bahrain, Stephen Harrison’s request to Bahraini newspapers to stop publishing pictures of destruction and suffering in Lebanon....
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100th journalist killed in Iraq
PARIS , Aug 3: A press freedom group on Wednesday denounced the ‘terrifying death toll’ in Iraq as the 100th journalist was reported killed in the country since the start of the US-led invasion in March 2003....
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Abizaid, Pace see threat of civil war in Iraq
WASHINGTON, Aug 3: Iraq is caught in the worst sectarian violence yet seen and faces the threat of civil war, two of the United States’ senior generals said on Thursday, three years after the US invasion....
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Natwar found guilty in oil-for-food scandal
NEW DELHI, Aug 3: An inquiry set up by the Indian government on Thursday found former foreign minister Natwar Singh and his son guilty of misconduct over the UN oil-for-food scheme in Iraq, reports said....
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Jaswant’s memoir sparks nuclear spy chase
NEW DELHI, Aug 3: In India’s rough and tumble political world he was always the ‘gentleman politician’....
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1,500 S. Korean Christians told to leave Afghanistan
KABUL, Aug 3: South Korean government officials were on Thursday urgently trying to get around 1,500 South Korean Christians out of Afghanistan after Kabul ordered them to leave amid fears of violence....
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Release of evidence in Libya probe allowed
GENEVA, Aug 3: Switzerland’s supreme court on Thursday cleared the way for legal assistance to German authorities investigating alleged smuggling of material for Libya’s nuclear weapons programme in 2001 to 2003....
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20 Muslims killed in Lanka clashes
COLOMBO, Aug 3: At least 20 Muslims fleeing the fighting raging in the east of the country between the government military and the Tamil Tiger rebels were killed on Thursday and...
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Hezbollah founder says group’s missiles can hit whole of Israel
TEHRAN, Aug 3: One of the Iranian founders of Lebanon’s Hezbollah said in remarks published on Thursday that the group had missiles which ‘leave no spot in Israel unreachable’....
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US troops fire on Sadr’s supporters
BAGHDAD, Aug 3: The US army opened fire on a convoy carrying supporters of radical Shia cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr at a checkpoint south of Baghdad on Thursday, wounding at least 16 people, Iraqi police said....
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Leaked UK paper fears division
LONDON, Aug 3: Iraq is more likely to slide into civil war than turn into a democracy, Britain’s outgoing ambassador in Baghdad wrote in a diplomatic cable leaked on Thursday....
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Lawmakers attack govt for breaking its own guidelines: British arms for Israel
LONDON: The British government must explain why it continues to approve the sale of arms to Israel in apparent breach of its own guidelines, a cross-party committee of senior back ben-chers demanded on Thursday....
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Supporters of Ukraine’s revolution feel betrayed
KIEV: The thousands of people who took to the streets of Ukraine’s capital two years ago to bring about the “Orange Revolution” could be forgiven for asking: “Why did we bother?”...
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US, Britain risk much in Lebanon gamble
CAIRO: The United States and Britain have taken a big gamble by justifying Israel’s third invasion of Lebanon because an Israeli failure to achieve its objectives will undermine their own position in the Middle East....
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A glimpse into Hezbollah’s secretive world
SRIFA (Lebanon): They use three-digit numbers as code names, live off canned tuna, and tape over their rings so an accidental twinkle doesn’t give away their position to Israeli warplanes....
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Buried by bomb, mother saved lives in Qana
ALEY (Lebanon): Rabab Youssef managed to pull her son alive from the rubble in the Lebanese village of Qana. She could do nothing for her daughter....
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Tyre runs short of food, fuel
TYRE: With food and fuel stocks running perilously low, local and international aid officials in this frontline town were preparing on Thursday for a siege. Israel has warned everyone south of Lebanon’s Litani river to move north....
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