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| September 22, 2006 | Friday | Sha'aban 28, 1427 |
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Iran ready to negotiate suspension: president: Uranium enrichment
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 21: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that Iran was ready to consider a suspension of uranium enrichment if it received ‘certain guarantees’ in talks with the big powers.... 
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No French troops for S. Afghanistan
PARIS, Sept 21: France will not send troops to help the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) in southern Afghanistan because it has its hands full in Kabul, Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said on Thursday....
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Olmert ducks question on targeting Nasrallah
JERUSALEM, Sept 21: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ducked a question on Thursday on whether Israel would try to kill Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah if the Hezbollah chief attends a ‘victory rally’ in the guerrilla group’s Beirut stronghold....
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Indonesia executes 3 for inciting crowd
PALU (Indonesia), Sept 21: Three Christians convicted of leading a mob that killed Muslims were executed by an Indonesian police firing squad early on Friday amidst tight security in Central Sulawesi province....
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Lankan town under curfew
COLOMBO, Sept 21: A curfew was clamped on Ampara district on Wednesday after tension gripped the region following police firing on a crowd protesting the killing of 10 Muslims last week....
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Woman to hang in Jordan over hotel attacks
AMMAN, Sept 21: A Jordanian military court on Thursday sentenced to death a failed female suicide bomber for triple hotel attacks in Amman last year that killed 60 people and shook one of the most stable nations in the Middle East....
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CIA officials objected to ‘tough methods’
WASHINGTON, Sept 21: The Bush administration emptied its CIA prisons and transferred top terrorism suspects to Guantanamo Bay partly because CIA officers refused to carry out interrogations, the Financial Times reported on Thursday....
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Thai coup a blow for Asean democracy
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians, led by Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, have uniformly reacted in shock at the sudden and unexpected crash of democracy in Thailand. But despite fears that the generals will...
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Acquittal will not end Zuma’s woes
JOHANNESBURG: Jacob Zuma’s hopes of becoming South Africa’s president were bolstered by the collapse of graft charges against him, but he still faces many hurdles in his quest for the country’s top job, analysts said on Thursday....
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War, diplomacy on parallel tracks: US-Iran nuclear standoff
WASHINGTON: If you’re feeling increasingly confused about whether the administration of President George W. Bush is determined to go to war with Iran or whether it is instead truly committed to...
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Plan for 800-seat plane faces new delay
PARIS: Airbus revealed new delays for its troubled A380 superjumbo on Thursday, blaming wiring installation problems which have already pushed the project a year behind schedule and sliced into future profits....
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Israel opens ancient site near Al Aqsa
AL QUDS: Israel has opened to the public an underground archaeological exhibit near Jerusalem’s most sensitive shrine, drawing criticism from Palestinians who say the project endangers the foundations of the holy site....
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‘In the line of fire’
WHEN he meets President Bush today (Friday) in Washington, President Musharraf is not likely to spend much time seeking more of US President’s moral, material and political support for his regime....
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