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US, France narrow gap on Lebanon draft plan: Vote expected today
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 10: French and US envoys on Thursday inched closer to thrashing out their differences which have held up a UN Security Council draft resolution on the conflict in Lebanon....
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US urges both sides to exercise restraint
WASHINGTON, Aug 10: The White House has urged both Israel and Hezbollah to stop escalating their war, even as Israel voted to expand its ground invasion of southern Lebanon....
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Israeli cows invade Lebanon
JERUSALEM, Aug 10: The grass is greener in Hezbollah-controlled territory. Literally. Dozens of hungry cows whose pasture land in northern Israel has been reduced to ashes by the daily rain of...
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Eight policemen, 12 Taliban die in clash
KABUL, Aug 10: Eight policemen and 12 Taliban died in a clash in southern Afghanistan, and a bomb injured seven civilians near a meeting with a top US general, officials said on Thursday....
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General says fighting very tough
LONDON, Aug 10: British soldiers in Afghanistan are involved in some of the worst and most prolonged fighting since the Second World War, the British commander of Nato forces in the country said on Thursday....
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50 killed in fresh Lanka violence
KANTALAI (Sri Lanka), Aug 10: Sri Lankan warplanes bombed rebel positions on Thursday while ground troops were in fierce battles that the Tamil Tiger rebels said had killed more than 50 people....
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Passengers edgy after revelation of bomb plot
NEW YORK, Aug 10: Nightmarish echoes of the Sept 11, 2001, attacks spooked US airports on Thursday, after British police said they had smashed a plot designed to unleash a new round of airborne carnage....
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Flight rules target soda, hair gel
NEW YORK, Aug 10: Tossing out cans of soda and discarding mascara and hair gel, passengers at US airports on Thursday dealt with tight new security measures prompted by news of a foiled plot to bomb flights to the United States....
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US should change ‘behaviour’: Mahmoud
NEW YORK, Aug 10: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadin-ejad on Thursday said if the Bush administration ‘changes its behaviour everything will be resolved’ and lamented the US president had not replied to a letter written several months ago....
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US at war with Islamic fascists: Bush
GREEN BAY, Aug 10: President George Bush said on Thursday that the foiled London bomb plot shows the United States is still ‘at war with Islamic fascists’ five years after the Sept 11 attacks....
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35 killed in Najaf suicide bombing
NAJAF, Aug 10: A suicide bomber killed 35 people near the shrine of Hazrat Ali in what Iraqi leaders branded an attempt to sow sectarian hatred and destroy a fragile peace process....
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‘Liquid bomb’
PARIS, Aug 10: As airlines banned the carrying of liquids onto planes after the suspected plot to blow up flights from Britain to the United States, experts speculated on the liquid explosive that may have been involved....
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War is a threat to existence of Lebanon, not Israel
LONDON: As Lebanon is brought to its knees, and Israeli leaders promise yet more of the same, there is something truly extraordinary about the manner in which the war on Lebanon...
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Passengers may have to change habits radically: War on plane terror
DUBLIN: The next terrorist attacks on civilian aircraft could be carried out by passengers who hide their bomb ingredients in innocent-looking containers for talcum powder, baby formula or medicine bottles and...
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Lebanon’s fallout on Iraq
LONDON: As Israel and Hezbollah continue to trade deadly blows, the Bush administration may have to brace itself for the possibility that the shock waves from the war in Lebanon could...
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Homes turned to dust, but faith in Hezbollah untouched
SHIAH (Lebanon): “The whole Rmeiti family is dead,” screamed a distraught resident of the Shiyah district in the southern suburbs of Beirut, turned into rubble and dust by twin Israeli air raids....
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Surgery improves life in the aged: study
NEW YORK: Elderly patients with heart disease who undergo coronary revascularization surgery enjoy better long-term health status and quality of life than those who are managed medically with drug therapy, according to results of a study....
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Wrong weapons, wrong targets
LONDON: By the third week of Israel’s military campaign, its leaders would have hoped to have seriously disrupted if not destroyed Hezbollah. However, last week not only saw the greatest number...
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