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Israel to leave Lebanon once UN sends 5,000: Italy
ROME, Aug 31: Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres has told Italy that Israel will begin pulling out troops from southern Lebanon once 5,000 UN peacekeepers arrive, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said on Thursday.... 
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Donors pledge $940m for Lebanon rebuilding
STOCKHOLM, Aug 31: International donors pledged more than $940 million on Thursday for Lebanon’s immediate relief efforts, nearly double the target amount. The funds raised at the Stockholm meeting will go...
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Terror plot exaggerated: NYT
NEW YORK, Aug 31: The terror plot uncovered by British authorities that led to worldwide alarm was not imminent as stated earlier and claims that up to 10 planes may have...
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Colombo blamed for killing of aid workers
COLOMBO, Aug 31: The European truce monitors on Wednesday blamed the Sri Lankan military for the killing of 17 aid workers affiliated to the Action against Hunger, a Paris-based charity....
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Film star Glenn Ford dies at 90
LOS ANGELES, Aug 31: Actor Glenn Ford, a handsome and quiet character actor who made his mark in big films like ‘Gilda’ and ‘The Big Heat’, died on Wednesday in his Beverly Hills home....
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Pakistani is UK’s first non-white admiral
LONDON, Aug 31: Pakistan-born immigrant Amjad Hussain became the highest-ranking Muslim in the British armed forces on Thursday, obtaining the rank of rear admiral in the Royal Navy....
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Man barred from flight over Arabic slogan
NEW YORK, Aug 31: A California-based peace activist has said he was barred from boarding a flight from New York because he was wearing a t-shirt with a slogan in Arabic....
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UN okays force for Sudan
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 31: The United Nations Security Council on Thursday voted in favour of creating a UN peace force for Sudan’s Darfur region. The resolution passed by the council says...
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His fiction brought Cairo to life: Naguib Mahfuz LOS ANGELES: Naguib Mahfuz, who died on Wednesday, was the first Arab author to be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature — for novels that evoked the scent, colour and texture of life in the streets of his native Cairo....
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The emptiness at ground zero
NEW YORK: Sixteen acres (6.4 hectares). Seven buildings. Tens of thousands of people. Two looming towers. A doomed Zip Code — 10048. This tour of ground zero included plenty of statistics....
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Frustration in Germany over ties with Poland
BERLIN/WARSAW: German Chancellor Angela Merkel took power last year vowing to mend frayed ties with Poland, but relations have become so fraught since that hopes for a rapprochement have all but vanished....
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History on Boston Harbour
BOSTON: Want to learn about American history? Take a boat ride in Boston Harbour — and get ready to listen as well as look. The ‘Birth of a Nation’ cruise highlights...
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