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Israelis trained Kurds: BBC
LONDON, Sept 20: Former Israeli commandos secretly trained Kurdish soldiers in northern Iraq to protect a new international airport and in counter-terrorism operations, the BBC reported on Tuesday.... 
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Democracy in a year, says Thai general
BANGKOK, Sept 20: Thailand’s new military ruler pledged on Wednesday to resign from power in two weeks and restore democracy in a year, after sweeping aside Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a bloodless coup....
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Ahmadinejad questions UNSC credibility
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 20: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on the UN General Assembly ‘to rescue the Security Council from its current state’ by the envoys from Africa, the Middle East and the Non-Aligned Movement....
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Pope moves to calm Muslim anger
VATICAN CITY, Sept 20: Pope Benedict XVI told thousands of pilgrims at the Vatican on Wednesday that worldwide Muslim anger over his recent speech in Germany was the result of an ‘unfortunate misunderstanding’....
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Saddam expelled from court
BAGHDAD, Sept 20: A new judge expelled a defiant Saddam Hussein from his genocide trial on Wednesday and defence lawyers stormed off in protest after the government sacked the chief judge, throwing the month-old case into turmoil....
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Big-6 seek progress on Iran by early Oct
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 20: Major powers want “results” on the nuclear dispute with Iran by the first week of October at the latest, a senior French diplomat said on Wednesday....
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Anti-Muslim bias cases rising in US
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 20: There is an almost 30 per cent increase in the number of anti-Muslim bias incidents from 2004 to 2005 with a substantial increase in California which has...
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Opium could destroy Afghanistan, says survey
UNITED NATIONS: The Head of the United Nations office on Drugs and Crime has said that Afghanistan is dangerously close to extinction as opium crop growth has reached unprecedented high levels....
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Bush ignores govts, addresses nations
NEW YORK, Sept 20: Addressing the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, US President George W. Bush strongly rejected a view that the West was against Islam and termed it a propaganda to advance terrorist designs....
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Gujarat govt proposes ban on conversion
GANDHINAGAR (India), Sept 20: A move to enforce a ban on conversions in western India renewed a bitter religious debate on Wednesday in a state where deadly riots between Muslims and Hindus erupted in 2002....
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3.3m-year-old hominid child fossil found
PARIS, Sept 20: Palaeontologists, reporting an extraordinarily rare fossil find, say they have uncovered a nearly complete skeleton of a hominid child who lived at a key stage in primate evolution 3.3...
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60 killed as storms hit India, BD
DHAKA, Sept 20: Storms caused by a depression in the Bay of Bengal have killed more than 60 people in eastern India and Bangladesh and left hundreds of fishermen missing at sea, officials said on Wednesday....
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Abe chosen to succeed Koizumi
TOKYO, Sept 20: Shinzo Abe, a conservative advocate of a more muscular Japanese foreign policy, was overwhelmingly elected ruling party leader on Wednesday, setting the stage for him to be chosen as prime minister next week....
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Accord with Pakistan sparks furore in India
NEW DELHI: The Indian strategic establishment is up in arms against the agreement reached between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Gen Pervez Musharraf on setting up a joint anti-terrorism institutional mechanism to identify and implement counter-terrorism initiatives and investigations....
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Nepal’s peace process badly affected by mistrust
KATHMANDU: Hard bargaining and a lack of trust between Nepal’s Maoist rebels and the multi-party government have slowed a peace process aimed at ending the Himalayan nation’s long civil war....
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Briton marries internet lover under police guard
LONDON / NEW DELHI: A British Muslim woman has married under police protection in India after fleeing from her family in Britain to be with a Hindu she met over the internet....
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Colombo rejects calls for investigation: Massacre of Muslims
COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan government has rejected calls by local Muslims for international assistance to investigate the massacre of 10 Muslim labourers in the eastern Ampara district that took place on Sunday....
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Civilians are biggest losers in Lanka war
KANKASANTURAI: Firing artillery shells towards Tamil Tiger positions as fighting flares despite peace talk pledges, Sri Lankan gunner Herath Rajaratne longs for the day he can return to his family and civilian life....
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Bhutan to teach people how to vote
GUWAHATI: Thousands of officials are being trained and voters asked to familiarise themselves with election processes as Bhutan prepares to hold its first polls in 2008....
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