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Leave or be bombed, Israel tells Lebanese city BEIRUT, Aug 5: Israel told residents of Sidon on Saturday to evacuate south Lebanon’s biggest city ahead of air strikes on Hizbollah offices and rocket launching sites it said were located there.... 
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Draft resolution on Mideast: highlights
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 5: The United States and France have completed a draft UN Security Council resolution on an end to fighting and a framework for a political settlement between Israel and Lebanon....
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LTTE accused of killing 100 Muslims: Colombo claims recapture of town
COLOMBO, Aug 5: The Sri Lankan military said on Saturday that over 100 Muslim civilians who had purportedly helped troops discover hideouts of the Tamil Tigers in Muttur had been massacred by the guerillas....
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Castro recovering fast, say officials
HAVANA, Aug 5: Cuban leader Fidel Castro is recovering satisfactorily from stomach surgery, the country’s vice-president said on Saturday, while government sources said he had started to eat and sit up in bed....
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Time running out: Israeli minister
THE following are initial reactions to the French-US draft resolution on Lebanon:...
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Israel may target Nasrallah, says PM
BERLIN, Aug 5: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Saturday he would not rule out an assassination attempt on Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah by the military....
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Bid on Lankan president’s life foiled: papers
COLOMBO, Aug 5: An attempt on Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse’s life was thwarted after police detected a huge cache of weapons and explosives hidden in a lorry proceeding to a...
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Fatwa against Hezbollah sparks debate
RIYADH, Aug 5: An old fatwa by a hardline scholar advising Saudis not to support Hezbollah because of its Shia roots has sparked a debate in the media....
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Russia protests to US over sanctions
NEW YORK, Aug 5: The Russian government lodged a strong protest on Friday as the United States imposed sanctions on seven foreign companies, two of them Russian, for providing Iran with...
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4 Palestinians killed
GAZA CITY, Aug 5: Two Palestinian teenaged siblings and two militants were killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, as the Israeli military pressed an incursion in the southern city of Rafah....
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Lebanon conflict unites Muslims
BEIRUT/CAIRO/JEDDAH/ MANAMA: Nour, a 19-year-old university student, came with two friends to one of Cairo’s biggest squares on Thursday night carrying Lebanese and Hezbollah flags. “This is the first time I ever take part in a protest,” she said....
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Russia reignites old feud with Japan
MOSCOW: Russia is to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into developing a group of small islands seized from Japan at the end of the Second World War, in a calculated snub to Tokyo....
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The Israeli nightmare in Lebanon
JERUSALEM: Hezbollah guerillas’ sophisticated anti-tank missiles are the group’s deadliest weapon in Lebanon fighting, with their ability to blast Israel’s most advanced Merkava tanks....
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Fighting splits Europe
BERLIN: Visitors to the German Chancellor’s futuristic glass-fronted office, a stone’s throw from the Reichstag, will have spotted a small huddle of people crouched over large maps of the Israeli-Lebanese border last week....
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Fresh peace talks a distant prospect in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: As Sri Lanka slides deeper into a new chapter of a two-decade civil war, fresh peace talks are a distant prospect until either the Tamil Tiger rebels or the military gain the upper hand, analysts say....
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Blair faces another headache
LONDON: Tony Blair’s domestic problems over his foreign policy will intensify this month when a new political party launched by the families of British soldiers killed in Iraq lays out its...
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