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Iraqi govt forges truce with militia: Fighting leaves 80 dead
DIWANIYAH, Aug 29: Hard-pressed Iraqi government forces were forced to strike a truce with Shia militia fighters on Tuesday, as fierce fighting left 80 people dead.... 
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Ahmadinejad challenges Bush to debate
TEHRAN, Aug 29: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday challenged his US counterpart to a live television debate as he shrugged off the threat of sanctions two days before a UN deadline for his country to halt sensitive atomic work....
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Tehran briefs Delhi on N-plan
NEW DELHI, Aug 29: Iran briefed India on Tuesday on its nuclear programme, an Indian official said, two days before a UN deadline for Tehran to halt uranium enrichment....
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US mly can handle another war, says Rumsfeld
FALLON, Aug 29: The US military could handle another war despite deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Monday. “I get asked from time to time,...
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US faces ‘a new type of fascism’
SALT LAKE CITY, Aug 29: Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Tuesday accused critics of the Bush administration’s Iraq and counterterrorism policies of trying to appease ‘a new type of fascism’....
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Panel to question Nepal king over crackdown
KATHMANDU, Aug 29: An inquiry panel will question Nepal’s king about his role in the killing of pro-democracy activists in April, an official said on Tuesday, an unprecedented move in a nation which once revered its monarch....
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700 militants freed in 3 years: Riyadh
RIYADH, Aug 29: The Saudi government has released more than 700 suspected militants, described as ‘sympathisers of Al Qaeda’, over the last three years. Mansour al Turki, a spokesman for the...
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Tibet rail line to be extended to Nepal
BEIJING, Aug 29: China plans to extend the newly-built Qinghai-Tibet railway to Nepal to expand trade with South Asia, the Xinhua news agency quoted a top Tibet official as saying on Monday....
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Muslim party for ‘national govt’ in Lanka
COLOMBO, Aug 29: The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) said on Monday it would support moves made by President Mahinda Rajapakse to establish a national government comprising all political parties....
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Turkey warned of ‘hell’
ANTALYA (Turkey), Aug 29: A shadowy Kurdish rebel group threatened on Tuesday to turn Turkey ‘into hell’ after a two-day bombing spree which killed three people and wounded dozens of others at popular tourist resorts....
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Did ANC let the poor down?
JOHANNESBURG: Journalist John Pilger is scathing in his criticism of the ‘whiter than white’ economic policies of the South African government, which he says have enriched a few blacks at the expense of millions of others....
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Eastern Europe exodus and economic ‘reform’
LONDON: As the entry of Bulgaria and Romania into the European Union edges closer, condescension towards eastern Europeans and their countries of origin grows into a crescendo....
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Visitors find two cities in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS: Alabama native Sarah Jane Keith, 30, stopped on a desolate street of the New Orleans Lower Ninth Ward where porches had teemed with neighbours a year ago, before Hurricane Katrina....
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Child falls victim to ‘witch-hunt’ in Congo
KINSHASA: Naomi Ewowo had just lost her parents when her family branded her a witch. She was five. After her mother and father died unexpectedly less than a month apart, Naomi’s...
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UN force unlikely to affect Hezbollah
BEIRUT: The Lebanese guerilla group Hezbollah will survive the arrival in south Lebanon of an expanded UN force by lying low for a time to concentrate on reconstruction in south Lebanon, analysts said on Tuesday....
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Muslims don’t ‘trust the world’ and ‘world doesn’t trust Muslims’
KYOTO: Warning that spiralling violence in the Middle East presented a serious threat to world security, religious leaders gathered in this ancient city for a global inter-faith meet are calling for urgent resolution of festering conflicts in the region....
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