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Annan calls for showing ‘patience’ with Iran
PARIS, Sept 2: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has said patience will prove more effective than sanctions in persuading Iran to drop its uranium enrichment programme.... 
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US successfully tests anti-missile system: N. Korea says move ‘threatens war’
WASHINGTON, Sept 2: The United States successfully tested its ballistic missile defence system on Friday, officials said, almost two months after North Korea test-fired a long-range missile that fell into the sea....
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Opium could destroy Afghanistan: US official
KABUL, Sept 2: Opium could destroy Afghanistan and return it to being a haven for terrorism, a US counternarcotics official said on Saturday. A ‘narco-economy’ was already in place and the...
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Bush’s use of terms condemned
WASHINGTON, Sept 2: President George Bush’s description of the ‘war on terror’ as a ‘war against Islamic fascism’ was inaccurate and unhelpful, says the newly elected president of the largest Muslim group in North America....
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Turkish troops not to disarm Hezbollah: PM
ANKARA: Turkey’s premier on Saturday said his government would withdraw Turkish soldiers from Lebanon if they were asked to disarm Hezbollah, as public concern runs high that Turkish soldiers could end up clashing with their fellow Muslims once deployed in Lebanon....
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Call centre worker in credit card fraud
NEW DELHI, Sept 2: A call centre employee was arrested in eastern India for allegedly using the credit cards details of US customers to make online purchases, a newspaper said on Saturday....
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Pranksters leave UK govt red-faced
LONDON, Sept 2: A British minister may have thought he was keeping up with modern trends when he put a draft policy on the Internet on Friday, but was soon left red-faced when hundreds of pranksters defaced it....
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Kurd ban on Iraqi flag triggers war of words
BAGHDAD, Sept 2: A leading Sunni politician levelled the harshest criticism yet by Sunnis against Kurdish politicians on Saturday, accusing them of insulting Iraq. Sunni lawmaker Saleh al-Mutlaq made his comments...
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Israel acted on a plan, say scholars
NEW YORK, Sept 2: Two prominent American scholars have claimed that Israel had planned the invasion of Lebanon in advance and used the kidnapping of its soldiers as a pretext to launch the operation....
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Zawahiri urges Americans to embrace Islam
DUBAI, Sept 2: The number two in Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, urged Americans on Saturday to convert to Islam in a video that showed a converted US national sought by the FBI....
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Palestinian ‘unity govt’ in 10 days
GAZA CITY, Sept 2: A Palestinian national unity government will be announced within 10 days, a spokesman for President Mahmud Abbas said on Saturday following weeks of wrangling between his Fatah party and the ruling Hamas movement....
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Kirkuk faces an uncertain future
KIRKUK: Rahman Aziz, 37, laughs out loud with his friend Rahman as they sit together across from the old citadel in this northern Iraqi city. The city needs their laughter....
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Generations later, US destroys its mustard gas
DESERET CHEMICAL DEPOT, (USA): As Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan laid waste to Europe and Asia in World War II, the United States ramped up production of mustard gas to respond to any chemical attack....
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IMF unsure of its role in Asia
SEOUL: When the International Monetary Fund last held its annual meeting in Asia — in Hong Kong in 1997 — it was leading the rescue of the region’s wrecked economies....
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Philippine peace process unravels
MANILA: Manila’s church bells pealed on Friday to usher in “national peace consciousness month” — an event that rings hollow for conflict-stricken communities in the southern Philippines....
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Drugs don’t work for many Aids patients in India
NEW DELHI: The drugs Shyamal Kumar Dey takes to fight AIDS don’t work anymore. The 38-year-old father of one has been swallowing anti-retroviral pills for the last five years, enough time for the HIV virus to mutate into a drug-resistant form....
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Opportunity, risk in Khatami’s US visit
WASHINGTON: Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami enters the fray between Iran and the United States in an unprecedented US visit fraught with risks for two countries in a showdown over Tehran’s nuclear ambitions....
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‘Polypill’ for heart on the way
BARCELONA: Spain could lead the world with the launch in 2009 or 2010 of the first three-in-one ‘polypill’ to prevent heart attacks, a top cardiologist advising on the project said on Saturday....
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Italian soldiers in Lebanon
TYRE: Italian troops began landing in Lebanon on Saturday in the first major reinforcement to the United Nations mission monitoring a ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah militia....
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Chavez plans socialist state
CARACAS: President Hugo Chavez announced on Friday a referendum on the question of allowing indefinite presidential re-elections in Venezuela to be held in 2010 and a plan for a socialist state....
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