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20 pilgrims killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Aug 20: Gunmen ambushed pilgrims as they marched through Baghdad on Sunday, killing an estimated 20 people, a year after a stampede claimed nearly 1,000 lives on the deadliest day in post-war Iraq.... 
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21 feared dead as floods hit Rajasthan
JODHPUR, Aug 20: At least 21 people were swept away and feared dead as monsoon rains triggered rare floods in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan, officials said on Sunday....
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Israeli raid tests truce
BEIRUT: Israel and Lebanon accused each another of violating their UN-brokered truce after Israel staged a commando raid deep inside Lebanon, in the first serious violence since the deal came into force....
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Lebanon truce may collapse, warns UN
BEIRUT, Aug 20: The United Nations said on Sunday the week-old truce between Israel and Hezbollah could easily collapse again into ‘an abyss of violence and bloodshed’ if the UN resolution which engendered it was violated further....
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Palestinian parliament secretary arrested
RAMALLAH (West Bank), Aug 20: The Israeli army on Sunday detained the Hamas secretary of the Palestinian parliament, Mahmud Al-Ramhi, according to an AFP correspondent on the scene....
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Greenpeace shocked by worst oil spill
NUEVA VALENCIA (Philippines), Aug 20: Environmental watchdog Greenpeace said on Sunday it was ‘shocked’ by the extent of damage caused by the Philippines’ worst ever oil spill and called on the...
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Train bomb suspect in German court
BERLIN, Aug 20: A Lebanese student suspected of planting bombs on German trains in a failed terrorist attack in July appeared in court on Sunday as a massive police hunt for a second suspect continued....
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Bush, Blair waging ‘war on Islam’: academic
LONDON, Aug 20: A Muslim academic who once said he was prepared to be a suicide bomber accused Britain and the United States on Sunday of waging a ‘war against Islam’, calling opponents of Tony Blair and George W....
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Israeli general concedes failure
JERUSALEM, Aug 20: Israel’s top general conceded on Sunday his army had failed to knock out Hezbollah in more than a month of fighting, and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he might order a broader investigation into the war....
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Nepal govt revokes fuel price rises
KATHMANDU, Aug 20: Nepal’s government on Sunday cancelled price rises for gasoline and other fuel after two days of widespread protests crippled the capital, a minister said....
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Singapore needs more babies: PM
SINGAPORE, Aug 20: Singapore’s prime minister on Sunday urged Singaporeans to have more babies and said his government would try to lure more immigrants in order to avoid a critical population shortage and ensure economic survival....
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Iran cartoon competition mocks Holocaust
TEHRAN: Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister, is wearing an SS uniform. A man with Jewish side-locks is depicted as a vampire drinking from a container marked “Palestinian blood”....
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Saddam’s genocide trial revives Kurd anger
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s ousted military dictator Saddam Hussein will return to the dock on Monday to face genocide charges in a case that has revived bitter memories among the country’s Kurdish minority....
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British foreign policy rewarding extremists
THE ceasefire in Lebanon is holding, if only by a thread, which makes it all the more unacceptable that there was so much reluctance on the part of the British government to call for it from the outset....
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Anger and grief as Hezbollah town buries its dead
DEIR QUANUN AN-NAHR (Lebanon): The low murmur began as the coffins were taken from waiting vans and hoisted onto the shoulders of dozens of young men....
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LTTE’s weapon of choice
COLOMBO: Long associated with sectarian violence in the Middle East, the suicide attack has been refined by Sri Lanka’s secularist Tamil Tiger rebels into a sophisticated weapon of war....
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