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ME states call for new peace process
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 24: Arab nations are asking the UN Security Council to launch a new Middle East peace process to end the Arab-Israeli dispute over the occupied territories as the... 
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Tehran asks West to outline timetable: Offer on N-plan
VIENNA, Aug 24: Iran’s reply to an offer of incentives to halt nuclear work asks world powers to clarify key points including a timeline to implement the package, Iranian experts with diplomatic contacts said on Thursday....
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Denmark to try four Muslims
COPENHAGEN, Aug 24: Four young Muslims will face prosecution under Danish anti-terrorism laws introduced after the September 11 attacks following a decision by Denmark’s justice minister....
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Israel says bigger force needed urgently
ROME, Aug 24: Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said on Thursday that an enlarged UN force in southern Lebanon should be deployed as soon as possible to help defuse an ‘explosive’ situation on the ground....
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German bomb suspect held in Lebanon
BERLIN, Aug 24: A Lebanese man suspected of planting a bomb on a German train has been arrested after turning himself in to authorities in Lebanon, the German federal prosecutor said on Thursday....
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12 Indians held on plane to be freed
AMSTERDAM, Aug 24: Dutch authorities will release all 12 passengers arrested on a US Northwest Airlines plane bound for India on Wednesday after concluding they were not planning an attack, prosecutors said on Thursday....
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Controversy has dogged Pluto since discovery
PRAGUE: It’s smaller than Earth’s moon, has a funky way of orbiting the sun, and lurks so far out on the fringes of the solar system even the powerful Hubble Space Telescope has to squint to see it....
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Quota for lower castes irks Indian students
NEW DELHI, Aug 24: Violent clashes broke out between students and police in the Indian capital on Thursday as protests flared over a government move to reserve more university seats for students from lower Hindu castes....
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Beirut to check ‘arms supply’ for Hezb
BEIRUT, Aug 24: Lebanon undertook on Thursday to prevent, what Israel alleges, arms smuggling from Syria, playing down a dispute between Damascus and Tel Aviv over whether UN forces should help the Lebanese army stop arms shipments to the Hezbollah....
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Iran, N. Korea fears a boost for Patriot missile: firm
WASHINGTON, Aug 24: Fears of North Korea and Iran seem to be spurring broad interest in Patriot PAC-3 missile upgrades, an executive of Lockheed Martin Corp....
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Planet: a new definition
SCIENTISTS agreed at the International Astronomical Union General Assembly in the Czech capital Prague on Thursday that Pluto, which has been called a planet since its discovery in 1930, would be put into a category of planets called ‘dwarf planets’....
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Discoverer would have ‘understood’
WASHINGTON, Aug 24: The astronomer who found Pluto would have understood why his discovery was demoted to non-planet status because he was a good scientist, his widow said on Thursday....
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Tehran heads for showdown with West over N-issue
TEHRAN: Iran appeared headed for a showdown at the UN Security Council next week over its nuclear programme, facing the threat of sanctions after failing to freeze key fuel cycle work....
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Judgment opens new Sino-Japanese front
BEIJING: A Chinese court has ordered two Japanese historians to pay damages of 1.6m yuan (£110,000) to a survivor of the 1937 Nanjing massacre whom they accused of fabricating her account....
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US warns banks of Iran, N.Korea stigma
WASHINGTON: Banks handling money for North Korea or Iran run the risk of some day being exposed to the same stigma associated with banks linked to Nazi Germany, a senior US government official said on Wednesday....
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Gaza Strip resembles a huge prison
KHAN YUNIS (Gaza Strip): It’s blazing hot every day; the electricity comes and goes. And when there’s no electricity, there’s no water. Nobody has any money, but everyone, it seems, has a weapon....
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Soviet nuke plant sheds secrets for business
UST-KAMENOGORSK (Kazakhstan): It once produced material for bombs capable of blowing up the world. Today, Ulba Metallurgical Plant, known by the codename A2 during the Cold War, is focused on what it calls “the peaceful atom”: nuclear fuel for power plants....
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Peru — a beggar on a throne of gold
LIMA: Mining companies operating in Peru are seeing increasing millions in profits as a result of the surge in international prices for metals, but few are contributing what is needed to alleviate the poverty of the people living in mining areas....
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Teenager found after 8 years
VIENNA: An Austrian teenager kidnapped eight years ago as a 10-year-old was found on Thursday, while her presumed abductor has committed suicide, resolving one of the country’s longest-running mysteries....
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Mogadishu port reopened
MOGADISHU: Somalia’s powerful Islamist movement officially opened Mogadishu’s long-closed seaport on Thursday and urged businessmen in the anarchic country’s capital to support resistance against the Ethiopian-backed government....
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