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Syria allows EU to patrol border
BEIRUT, Sept 9: Syria has agreed in principle to allow unarmed European Union personnel to patrol its border with Lebanon to prevent arms shipments to Hezbollah guerillas, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said on Saturday.... 
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Riyadh to finance Lebanon rebuilding
RIYADH, Sept 9: Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab states appear to be in a race to blunt the Hezbollah’s growing influence in Beirut and the region in the aftermath of the Lebanon invasion....
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Israeli PM ready to meet Abbas: Blair in ME to revive talks
JERUSALEM, Sept 9: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is ready to hold his first summit with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas immediately, Israeli officials said on Saturday....
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Atlantis soars into space for ISS work
CAPE CANAVERAL, Sept 9: Shuttle Atlantis roared into space on Saturday soaring toward the International Space Station for the first construction mission since the 2003 Columbia tragedy....
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Iran, EU hold talks on N-plan
VIENNA, Sept 9: Last-ditch EU-Iran nuclear talks are to continue on Sunday in Vienna, top Iranian nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said describing a first day as ‘constructive’....
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Annan hails lifting of blockade
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 9: Responding to Israel’s decision to lift the blockade of Lebanon, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has termed it a victory for diplomacy....
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Study on vegetative state raises questions
NEW YORK, Sept 9: An important medical study has concluded that ‘a severely brain-damaged woman in an unresponsive, vegetative state showed clear signs on brain imaging tests that she was aware of herself and her surroundings....
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US govt paid off anti-Cuba newsmen: NYT
NEW YORK, Sept 9: Ten American journalists were paid off by the Bush administration to provide anti-Castro commentaries to be broadcast over US television stations, a spokesman for the office responsible for Cuba broadcasts told the New York Times on Friday....
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Jaffna fighting
JAFFNA, Sept 9: Heavy fighting broke out in Jaffna on Saturday as the Sri Lankan army launched a new offensive to regain control of large swathes of territory captured by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) last month....
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Junta trying to wipe out minorities in Myanmar THE tribes of eastern Myanmar have some of the worst health conditions in the world as a result of persecution by the junta, a report published on Friday reveals....
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Foreign policy main cause of Blair’s troubles
LONDON: Gordon Brown will be pressed to chart a different foreign policy course from Tony Blair to win back voters put off by the unpopular campaigns waged by the prime minister, who the Scottish politician hopes to succeed....
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Solar power to shine in coming decades
OSLO: The tiny solar power industry is booming and could generate 2.5 per cent of world electricity by 2025 in a shift from fossil fuels, a report by a business group and environmental lobby Greenpeace said....
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National pride behind Iran’s defiance on N-programme
TEHRAN: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s house stands at the end of a narrow alleyway in Jamaran, a hot and dusty village assimilated in recent years into Tehran’s northern suburbs....
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Morales move to rebuild Bolivia faces hurdles
SUCRE (Bolivia): Bolivians sat down a month ago to rewrite their constitution, but disputes and infighting threaten to bog down President Evo Morales’ plan to rebuild the country on indigenous principles....
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Bronze Age pyramid in Ukraine
MOSCOW: Archaeologists in Ukraine have unearthed the remains of an ancient pyramidal structure that pre-dates those in Egypt by at least 300 years....
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Muslim world gives economic hope to China’s backwater
LINGWU (China): Testifying to the power of globalisation, China’s growing business ties with the Islamic world are opening new economic horizons for one of the poorest and remotest parts of China....
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