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Over 190 die in Ethiopian floods
ADDIS ABABA, Aug 6: Flash floods have killed more than 191 people in eastern Ethiopia, sweeping away many of the victims in their sleep, after a heavy downpour caused a river to overflow, police said on Sunday.... 
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India ‘bans Arab TV channels’
RIYADH, Aug 6: Irked by a ban on Arab TV channels, ‘apparently under the Israeli pressure’, the Saudi daily Arab News in a front page report has criticised the Indian government for the unannounced ban....
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Witness describes scene of horror: US military hearing in Iraq rape case
BAGHDAD, Aug 6: An Iraqi army medic described a scene of horror to a US military hearing on Sunday that will decide if four US soldiers are to be court-martialled for...
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‘Water war’ erupts in Sri Lanka: Aid group says 15 executed
COLOMBO, Aug 6: Fresh fighting in the eastern Trincomalee district erupted on Sunday between the Tamil Tigers and government troops as the ‘water war’ to free a key eastern reservoir from...
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‘US is not making case for democracy’
HONOLULU, Aug 6: The United States is not making the case for freedom, democracy and western law to the rest of the world, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy said....
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More US troops arrive in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Aug 6: US troop reinforcements have begun arriving in Baghdad to help Iraqi forces try to regain control of the streets amid worsening sectarian violence that US generals fear is pushing the country towards civil war....
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Jordanian deputies jailed
AMMAN, Aug 6: Two leading deputies were jailed in Jordan on Sunday after they were found guilty of sowing national discord by visiting the family of Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, the Al Qaeda leader in Iraq, after his death....
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UK soldier dies in Afghanistan
LONDON, Aug 6: A British soldier was killed in action on Sunday in the restive southern Afghan province of Helmand, the Ministry of Defence said....
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Woman killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Aug 6: A woman was killed and 17 other people including six policemen were wounded on Sunday in a grenade attack by freedom fighters in a busy town in held Kashmir, police said....
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Where shepherds tend guns by night
KFAR KILA: When war came to the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Kila, a stronghold of the Hezbollah-led Islamic Resistance, it did not have very far to travel....
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Gazprom’s huge Venezuela gas deal alarms US
GAZPROM, Russia’s state-controlled gas company, is risking a diplomatic row with the United States over a mooted multibillion-dollar pipeline investment in Venezuela....
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Lebanese fishermen devastated
UZAI (Lebanon): The men walked sombrely past the skeletons of bombed buildings, shards of broken glass and charred metal crunching under their feet....
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Israeli DPs seek safety with settlers
EFRAT (West Bank): Hundreds of residents in northern Israel have fled cross-border rocket salvos from Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon for the relative safety of Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank....
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Mahathir zeroes in on PM’s weakness
KUALA LUMPUR: Former Malaysian premier Mahathir Mohamad is a political street-fighter with a score to settle with his handpicked successor, and he is about to punch where it can hurt most....
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