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UN, US urge Europe to contribute troops: Force for Lebanon
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 18: Acknowledging that the United Nations was disappointed with the French government’s offer of 200 troops for the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, UN Deputy Secretary-General Malloch Brown... 
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Israel objects to Malaysian, Indonesian participation
LONDON, Aug 18: Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations told the BBC on Friday they would have difficulty accepting nations that do not recognise the Jewish state as part of a peacekeeping force in Lebanon....
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German govt fears terror attack
WIESBADEN (Germany), Aug 18: German investigators said on Friday they suspected that homemade bombs found on two trains last month were a failed terror attack....
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Move against Iran next month: US
WASHINGTON, Aug 18: The United States intends to act next month to have the United Nations impose penalties on Iran for refusing to stop enrichment of uranium, a State Department official said....
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Bush warns N. Korea against nuclear test
CAMP DAVID, Aug 18: President George Bush on Friday warned that North Korea would pose a threat to the world if it tested a nuclear bomb for the first time, following reports that the reclusive government was considering such a move....
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Threat to blow up Taj Mahal
LUCKNOW, Aug 18: Heavily-armed troops were deployed at Taj Mahal on Friday after police received a letter threatening to blow up the 17th century monument to love....
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Firm claims developing ‘free energy’ technology
DUBLIN, Aug 18: An Irish company threw down the gauntlet on Friday to the worldwide scientific community to test a technology it has developed that it claims produces free energy....
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Drug trade questions ‘integrity’ of Afghan government: US
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18: The US State Department said on Friday that a sudden increase in the production of illicit drugs in Afghanistan was ‘a problem for the integrity’ of the Afghan government....
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Arms for Hezbollah passed through Turkey: Israel
JERUSALEM, Aug 18: Israel wants the Turkish military to impose an air and ground embargo to prevent Iran using Turkish territory to send arms to resupply Hezbollah, a senior Israeli security source said on Thursday....
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Scientists plan to redefine ‘planet’
PRAGUE, Aug 18: The world’s leading astronomers are preparing to reshape our understanding of the solar system in a galactic big bang that would admit three new planets but downgrade distant Pluto....
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French leader says her home ‘intruded’
PARIS, Aug 18: Segoline Royal, the Socialist Party’s front-runner for president who has transformed the French political scene, said on Friday the home she shares with her partner — another possible candidate for the Elise — had been broken into....
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Canadian fund for Lebanon
OTTAWA, Aug 18: The Canadian prime minister on Wednesday set up a $25 million relief fund for Lebanon’s war victims, but ruled out contributing troops to a United Nations peacekeeping force....
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Muslim leaders start showing suspicions: Plane plot
LONDON: Many Muslims in Britain are beginning to doubt the alleged plot to blow up aircraft flying to the United States from Britain....
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N-facility in Russia at risk?
MOSCOW: On August 3, Russian conscript Ivan Shinkaryov flipped the safety catch on his rifle and shot himself dead. It was sad but unremarkable: in Russia at least 1,000 conscripts die each year in non-combat incidents....
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Secret files stir uproar in Romania
BUCHAREST: Nearly 17 years after Romania’s communist regime collapsed, the first of an estimated 1.3 million files amassed by its secret police are finally about to become public, and already the...
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Reading between the lines in Jiang’s re-emergence
BEIJING: Three years after leaving the political stage, former Chinese president Jiang Zemin is back in the national spotlight. So is the famous slogan that seemed to have retired with its creator: the murky theory of the ‘Three Represents’....
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Advice to western bikers in India
NEW DELHI: From a tiny New Delhi storefront decorated with Tibetan prayer flags, blond-haired Balu rents and repairs bikes, and more importantly, advises western biker tourists how not to lose it while travelling in India....
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