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Chirac offers compromise formula:
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 19: French President Jacques Chirac put forward a compromise formula on Tuesday for resolving the standoff over Iran’s nuclear programme without having to impose sanctions on Tehran.... 
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Iraqi govt removes Saddam trial judge
BAGHDAD, Sept 19: Iraq’s Shia-led cabinet on Tuesday removed the chief judge in the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein, accusing him of being biased towards the defendant, a government spokesman said....
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US denies visa to 15 Iranian journalists
TEHRAN, Sept 19: Iran warned on Tuesday it could take measures against US media after the United States denied visas to 15 Iranian journalists who were to accompany President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to New York....
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Mystery object falls out of shuttle
CAPE CANAVERAL, Sept 19: Nasa on Tuesday delayed shuttle Atlantis’ homecoming by a day due to bad weather expected at the Florida landing site and because it wanted time to examine video of an object seen falling out of the craft....
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Muslim groups call for unequivocal apology: Bush, Rice defend Pope Benedict
VATICAN CITY, Sept 19: Pope Benedict faced a growing chorus of demands on Tuesday for an unequivocal apology for remarks seen as portraying Islam as a violent faith, despite attempts by western leaders and churchmen to defuse the crisis....
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Big powers moot N-fuel scheme
VIENNA, Sept 19: World powers said on Tuesday that making nuclear reactor fuel available through UN-controlled supply centres could keep nations from enriching uranium themselves and learning how to make atomic weapons, a main concern in the Iran crisis....
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Iran arms seen in ME fronts: Abizaid
WASHINGTON, Sept 19: A new armour-busting rocket-propelled grenade believed to be of Iranian origin has shown up in Iraq in what may be ‘a hint about things to come’, the commander of US forces in the Middle East said on Tuesday....
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Kuwait MP criticises HR report
KUWAIT CITY, Sept 19: A member of Kuwait’s parliament, Mohammad Al-Khalifa, has charged that international organisations’ reports on Kuwait’s human rights situation is ‘exaggerated’ and unfair....
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Lanka Muslims seek probe into massacre
COLOMBO, Sept 19: Sri Lanka’s main Muslim party, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), has asked the government to carry out an investigation into Monday’s massacre of 10 Muslim construction workers...
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West cannot afford to maintain age-old bias against Islam
LONDON: In the 12th century, Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny, initiated a dialogue with the Islamic world. “I approach you not with arms, but with words,” he wrote to the...
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Return to the dark ages
LONDON: The Pope’s response to the anger his statements sparked in the Muslim world was more offensive than the statements themselves. He apologised not for what he said, but for Muslims’ failure to grasp the intended meaning....
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Western troops — last thing Darfur needs
LONDON: An air of unreality, if not cant, surrounds the latest upsurge of calls for UN troops to go into Sudan’s western region of Darfur. The actor George Clooney takes to the stage at the UN Security Council, pleading for action....
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Minefield of regional rivalry awaits Japan’s new PM
SEOUL: Step one for improving regional ties: Japan’s next prime minister avoids visiting a Tokyo war shrine seen as glorifying his country’s military march through Asia, making summits with South Korea and China possible again....
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Pope has joined US crusade: Khamenei
ROME: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has accused the Pope of committing the world’s biggest Christian church to a crusade launched by President Bush against Islam. The Iranian leader’s words represented a setback...
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Key facts about Thaksin Shinawatra
BANGKOK: Tanks surrounded Thailand’s Government House on Tuesday and Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra declared a state of emergency in Bangkok amid signs of the first attempted coup in the southeast Asian nation in 15 years....
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Study links sleep apnea to depression
NEW YORK: Sleep-related breathing disorder has a robust association with depression, according to results of a long-term study funded by the National Institutes of Health....
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