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Ahmadinejad vows to purge varsities of ‘liberal influence’
TEHRAN, Sept 5: Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday vowed to cleanse schools and universities of liberal influence, continuing a drive to restore revolutionary values to the country.... 
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Iran won’t be allowed to develop N-arms: Bush WASHINGTON, Sept 5: President George Bush on Tuesday branded Iran’s president a tyrant and compared leaders in Tehran to Al Qaeda militants who cannot be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons....
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Blockade to end in 48 hours: Annan
ALEXANDRIA, Sept 5: Israel should lift its blockade of Lebanon within 48 hours, UN chief Kofi Annan said on Tuesday as he stepped up efforts to release Israeli prisoners and shore up a fragile truce in Lebanon....
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Turkey OKs troops for Lebanon amid protests
ANKARA, Sept 5: Overriding widespread opposition and protests, the Turkish parliament voted after fierce debate at an extraordinary session Tuesday to authorise the government to send troops to the UN force in Lebanon....
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Taliban regain ground: study
WASHINGTON, Sept 5: Afghanistan is “falling back into the hands of the Taliban” and US-backed troops are fighting in a lawless land, says a report released on Tuesday....
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Chinese PM rules out direct polls
BEIJING, Sept 5: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Tuesday defended the government’s reluctance to expand democracy, saying direct elections at higher levels of office must come gradually and only after lower levels can manage themselves....
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Beijing favours negotiations
BEIJING, Sept 5: China said on Tuesday it still wanted big powers to negotiate with Iran even after Tehran defied a UN deadline to stop enriching uranium....
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Nine held in Denmark’s ‘most serious’ terror case
COPENHAGEN, Sept 5: Nine men have been arrested in Denmark on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks, the Danish intelligence service PET said on Tuesday, in the second major anti-terrorism raid in less than a year....
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Albright slams India’s N-policy
NEW DELHI, Sept 5: Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright on Tuesday slammed India’s nuclear weapons programme, giving a glimpse to New Delhi of how a Democrat-led Senate vote might go on the US-India nuclear cooperation deal....
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‘Fattest man’ to be operated on
ROME, Sept 5: A Mexican weighing 550 kilos and thought to be the fattest man in the world is to have his bodyweight surgically reduced in Italy....
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Gaza car blast
GAZA CITY, Sept 5: Two Palestinians were killed when their car exploded in the town of Rafah in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday....
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IMF — the rich world’s viceroy
LONDON: The glacier has begun to creak. In the world’s most powerful dictatorship we detect the merest hint of a thaw. I am not talking about China or Uzbekistan, Burma or North Korea....
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Film stirs passions in Cyprus
NICOSIA: A film about forbidden love in Cyprus has stirred passions on the ethnically partitioned island, with its showing at the Venice Film Festival this week embroiled in a row over funding....
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Films test readiness to relive 9/11 attacks
LOS ANGELES: Two Hollywood movies that asked US audiences to live through the September 11, 2001 attacks again on theatre screens proved wounds from the tragedy were still tender across the country....
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Republican control of Congress in peril
WASHINGTON: As the 2006 US mid-term election campaign officially got under way over the three-day Labour Day weekend, Republican hopes of retaining control of both houses of Congress look increasingly fragile....
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Washington’s predicament
WASHINGTON: There is an idea in mathematics. It describes a series of numbers that is endlessly halved, endlessly approaching but never reaching zero. It is an engine endlessly grinding to a halt but never stopping....
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