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Olmert fails to win coalition’s support: Lebanon war costs
JERUSALEM, Aug 22: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s coalition government was jolted on Tuesday by a row over financing the war in Lebanon, a week after a shaky ceasefire with Hezbollah guerrillas took effect.... 
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US politicians call for profiling of Muslims
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 22: Mark Flanagan, a congressional candidate in Florida, has become the fourth office-seeker of the Republican Party to call for profiling of Muslim airline passengers since the alleged airline bombing plot in Britain announced earlier this month....
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Russian declines maths prize
MADRID, Aug 22: A Russian recluse who solved a complex riddle won the mathematics world’s version of a Nobel prize on Tuesday, but true to form refused to accept the honour nor attend the royal awards ceremony....
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Katsav faces harassment allegations
JERUSALEM, Aug 22: President Moshe Katsav will be questioned by police for the first time on Wednesday over sexual harassment allegations, in the latest top-level Israeli scandal and one that could topple the head of state....
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Israel must be ready for Iran attack: minister
JERUSALEM, Aug 22: Israel should prepare for the possibility of a missile attack from Iran, a minister said on Tuesday. “We are liable to face an Iranian missile attack....
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Oil firm says rig hit by Iran
BUCHAREST, Aug 22: Romanian oil firm Grup Servicii Petroliere (GSP) said on Tuesday one of its offshore rigs in the Gulf had reported coming under fire from an Iranian military ship and being boarded by troops....
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Asean finds own economic medicine a bitter pill
KUALA LUMPUR: Southeast Asia wants to form a loose economic union, but the region will have to conquer a mountain of national interests and mutual suspicion before it gets there....
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United Nations not mandated to disarm Hezbollah
PARIS: The new UN force being deployed to Lebanon is allowed to use force to defend itself or civilians and to enforce a buffer zone along the Israeli border, but cannot...
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Door to Bush’s mind locked tight
WASHINGTON: For a moment there, I was almost encouraged. George W. Bush, the most resolutely incurious and inflexible of presidents, was reported last week to have been surprised at seeing Iraqi...
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1938 — an instructive year for ME of 2006
WASHINGTON: In his upcoming book about the horrors of the 20th century, “The War of the World,” the British historian Niall Ferguson has a chapter called “The Pity of Peace.”...
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Scientists offer proof of dark matter
WASHINGTON: For decades, many scientists have theorized that the universe is made up of nearly undetectable mysterious substances called dark matter and dark energy. But until Monday there was no proof that the subatomic matter actually exists....
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US ‘poker’ vs Iran’s ‘chess’
LONDON: Iran wields more influence in Iraq than the United States and has established itself as Washington’s chief rival in the Middle East, a London-based think tank said in a report issued on Wednesday....
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N. Korea warns of ‘pre-emptive action’
SEOUL: North Korea said it had the right to launch a pre-emptive attack to counter a US-South Korean joint military training drill, its official media reported on Tuesday....
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