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Tehran says it won’t back down over nuclear plan
TEHRAN, Aug 15: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday Iran would not yield to western pressure to give up its home-grown nuclear technology. His comments came days before an Aug... 
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Assad says Hezb has destroyed US ME plan
DAMASCUS, Aug 15: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday Hezbollah’s resistance had destroyed US plans to reshape the Middle East....
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Israeli general admits he sold stocks before war
JERUSALEM, Aug 15: Israel’s army chief Dan Halutz offloaded his stock portfolio hours before the Jewish state unleashed a massive offensive in Lebanon and the stock market tumbled, the Maariv daily reported on Tuesday....
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Lankan schools shut after bomb attack
COLOMBO, Aug 15: Sri Lanka stepped up security on Tuesday after an unprecedented bomb attack on Pakistan’s ambassador the previous day and shut schools amid fears of rebel reprisals for an air raid that the guerillas claim killed 61 children....
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8 Kurd fighters killed in Iraq
MOSUL (Iraq), Aug 15: A suicide car bomber killed eight Kurdish peshmerga militiamen and wounded 51 others on Tuesday in an attack on an office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s party, a Kurdish minister said....
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2 Fox News reporters kidnapped in Gaza
NEW YORK, Aug 15: Two journalists from the US television channel Fox News were kidnapped by armed men in Gaza on Monday, the network said, in the latest of a series of abductions since Israel’s withdrawal last year....
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US offers help in disarming Hezbollah
WASHINGTON, Aug 15: Lebanon is responsible for the disarmament of the Hezbollah militia, the top US diplomat on the Middle East said on Tuesday, and the United States is ‘ready to help’....
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Nasa loses tape of moon landing
WASHINGTON, Aug 15: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) no longer knows the whereabouts of the original tapes of man’s first landing on the moon in 1969, an official of the US space agency said on Tuesday....
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Nato likely to sign treaty with Kabul
KABUL, Aug 15: The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) said on Tuesday it was likely to sign an agreement with Afghanistan to formalise its presence in the country but warned it would need more resources and international cooperation to do so....
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Koizumi’s shrine visit irks China
TOKYO, Aug 15: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi paid his respects at Tokyo’s Yasukuni Shrine for war dead on Tuesday, the anniversary of his country’s World War Two surrender, defying warnings from China and South Korea not to go....
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A defiant sense of victory prevails among Lebanese
AITTA SHAAB: The war started in Aitta Shaab, where Hezbollah fighters stole across the border and took two Israeli soldiers into custody one month ago. When it ended at 8am Sunday...
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Hezbollah back in action on social front
HARET HREIK: Just a day after the end of an offensive that reduced Beirut’s southern suburbs to rubble, Hezbollah was back in force as though its grip on its urban stronghold had never slipped....
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Over 1,300 dead; 900,000 homeless
BEIRUT/TEL AVIV: Lebanon and Israel counted their losses from 34 days of fighting as a truce between Israeli troops and Hezbollah guerrillas held for a second day on Tuesday....
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Chavez looms in the wings as Castro cedes power
CARACAS (Venezuela): It was a sign of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s growing stature as a revolutionary figurehead that he was the first leader to visit Cuba’s aging leader Fidel Castro as the world speculated over the communist-run island’s future....
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Mahathir’s real target is govt’s policy
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians are witnessing a row between past and present leaders with fascination, dread and one burning question: will it end with the incumbent’s downfall?...
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US Mideast clout war’s key casualty
JERUSALEM: The Bush administration’s influence in the Middle East is in danger of becoming another casualty of the war in Lebanon, giving Iran a chance to build up its clout in the region....
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