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Russia rules out sanctions against Iran
MOSCOW, Aug 25: Russia rejected on Friday any talk for now of sanctions against Iran and France warned against conflict with Tehran, raising doubts whether it will face swift penalties for not halting nuclear work by an Aug 31 deadline.... 
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Israeli PM, army chief under pressure to quit
JERUSALEM, Aug 25: Israel’s embattled leadership, discredited to an unprecedented extent by the Lebanon war and sex scandals, teetered on Friday under calls for the prime minister, defence minister and army chief to resign....
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No troops on Syria border: Lebanon
BEIRUT, Aug 25: Lebanon is against the deployment of United Nations peacekeeping forces along its border with Syria, Information Minister Ghazi Aridi said. “Only the Lebanese army is in charge of...
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India protests to Netherlands over plane detentions
NEW DELHI, Aug 25: India protested on Friday the Netherlands’ detention of 12 Indians following a mid-air security scare, saying it was ‘shocked’ at their treatment, but the Dutch government said it was just following procedure....
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Turkish president opposes contribution
ANKARA, Aug 25: Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer said on Friday he is opposed to his country contributing troops to the enlarged UN force in Lebanon, television channels reported....
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Pharaoh’s statue leaves Cairo
CAIRO, Aug 25: A massive statue of one of Egypt’s greatest pharaohs, Ramses II, rolled through the streets of Cairo to a new home near the Pyramids on Friday to escape...
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Court refuses to lift ban on Coke
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, Aug 25: An Indian court rejected on Friday a plea by US soft drinks giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo to lift a ban in the southern state of Kerala on the sale of their beverages....
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Germany to sell two subs to Israel
BERLIN, Aug 25: The German government on Friday confirmed reports that two German submarines have been sold to Israel, but said the vessels are not equipped to carry nuclear weapons....
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China jails NYT researcher
BEIJING, Aug 25: A Beijing court dismissed charges that a Chinese researcher for the New York Times had illegally leaked state secrets, but sentenced him to three years for fraud, capping weeks of confrontation over citizens’ legal rights....
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Lawyer finds father after 26 years
DHAKA, Aug 25: A Dutch lawyer who was trafficked to Europe as a baby has been reunited with her impoverished Bangladeshi father 26 years after he last saw her, a newspaper report said on Friday....
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Blair’s policy now a threat to security
LONDON: We know it. They know it. We know that they know it. So why do they continue to deny it? I am, of course, talking about the very obvious connection...
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Reid’s ambition to lead UK
LONDON: Shortly after he first moved to the Home Office in the spring, John Reid got into big trouble for taking a few days’ holiday in France while dangerous foreign criminals were supposedly roaming the country....
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Refugees struggle to be accepted in South Korea
SEOUL: Fleeing oppression at home, Aung Myint Swe had high hopes he would be warmly welcomed as an asylum seeker in South Korea, which like his native Myanmar had suffered decades of repression under military dictatorship....
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Whatever happened to Rumsfeld the poet?
LOS ANGELES: August kills poetry. For starters, it’s too hot. You can feel the days shrinking. You can sense changes coming. August devours poets. Maybe that’s what’s eating Donald Rumsfeld....
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Chavez arrives in Beijing with great expectations
LOS ANGELES: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s world tour has landed him in China for the fourth time during his presidency. One of his main objectives there is to try to draw China into his global ‘guerrilla war’ against the United States....
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Rome takes on Venice in war of festivals
ROME: Italy’s film industry is bracing for a war of the festivals between Venice’s venerable ‘Mostra del Cinema’, whose 63rd edition starts on August 30, and Rome’s new international film competition which makes its debut in mid-October....
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California governor’s message of intolerance
LOS ANGELES: Earlier this month, with war raging in the Middle East, I saw that my governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was meeting with rabbis and others who support Israel....
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El Salvador shifts Israel embassy
SAN SALVADOR: Officials in El Salvador announced on Friday that they will transfer their embassy from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, meaning that all embassies will now be located in the western Israeli city....
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US military’s casualty reports
SAN FRANCISCO: The US Army has opened a re-examination of casualty reports on American soldiers killed in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere since 2001 — a response to complaints that it has not always given families accurate information....
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Man carrying dynamite held
WASHINGTON: A passenger who had a stick of dynamite and a tube of ammonium nitrate in his luggage was arrested on Friday in Houston after getting off a Continental Airlines flight from Buenos Aires, US and Argentine authorities said....
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