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EU condemns secret CIA prisons
BRUSSELS, Sept 15: The European Union condemned on Friday the detention of terrorism suspects by the United States in secret overseas prisons, whose existence President George Bush first acknowledged last week.... 
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Iran is playing for time, says Bush: official sees ‘progress’
WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS, Sept 15: US President George Bush raised concerns on Friday that Iran was playing for time in a dispute over its nuclear programme, but the European official leading talks with Tehran spoke of progress....
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IAEA lodges protest with Washington
NEW YORK, Sept 15: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has lodged a protest with Washington over an intelligence report on Tehran’s nuclear programme, saying that it ‘contains erroneous, misleading and unsubstantiated information, the New York Times said....
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Suicide attacks foiled in Yemen: five die
SANAA, Sept 15: Four bombers and a security guard were killed on Friday when Yemeni security forces foiled twin suicide bombings against oil installations just five days before elections....
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5 intelligence officers shot dead in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Sept 15: Five Palestinian intelligence officials were gunned down by unknown attackers in Gaza City on Friday near the home of Prime Minister Ismail Haniya....
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Britons ill at ease with immigrants
BIRMINGHAM: Azmat Begg has noticed it the last few weeks when he’s taken his walk each morning, the way he has every day, in the same park, for the last 30 years....
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Awkward moments for US allies at summit
HAVANA: Friends of the United States are finding themselves in an awkward spot at a Non-Aligned Movement summit dominated by anti-US firebrands and hosted by Washington’s old foe, Cuba....
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OIC asks Vatican to clarify position
RIYADH: The Jeddah-based Organisation of the Islamic Conference called on the Vatican on Friday to clarify its ‘true position on Islam and its precepts’. Regretting the Pope’s statement, the OIC said there was no justification for such statements....
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Lennon’s path to peace activism
TORONTO: John Lennon joked that since he was a schoolboy he’d always gotten in trouble, maybe because he just had a look about him. Eventually he got into trouble with the US government....
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No end in sight for Wikipedia restrictions in China
HONG KONG: Shi Zhao slides the computer mouse, making rapid-fire clicks and in the space of a minute or so finds about a dozen minor errors to be tweaked on Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia that anyone can edit....
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Impersonation
LOS ANGELES: A Los Angeles man was arrested on Thursday for impersonating a federal agent in what prosecutors say was an attempt to work as a security consultant for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie....
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Journalist Fallaci dies
ROME, Sept 15: The Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci, who in recent years became better known for diatribes against Islam than for her record as a war correspondent, died on Thursday night after a long illness....
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Annan hails Belgium offer to host meet
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 15: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday welcomed Belgium’s offer to host the first meeting next year of his proposed Global Forum on Migration and Development — a...
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WB, IMF critical of Singapore
SINGAPORE, Sept 15: The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund on Thursday criticised the Singapore government for denying entry to civil society representative to the country to attend the annual meetings of the bank and the fund....
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2,000 activists charged in BD
DHAKA, Sept 15: The Bangladesh government has charged some 2,000 opposition leaders and activists, including a former home minister, with instigating clashes between the police and the opposition during the latter’s siege of the Prime Minister’s Office on Monday....
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