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Hamas says ‘no’ to recognition of Israel
GAZA, Sept 22: Hamas said on Friday it would not join any Palestinian unity government that recognised Israel, rebuffing President Mahmoud Abbas who said any future coalition would do so and also ‘renounce violence’.... 
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Rice presses Abbas to show flexibility
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22: Arab and Israeli officials laid out their position for a comprehensive, peaceful settlement of the Middle East conflict based mostly on the Quartet’s two-state concept, during a Thursday meeting of the UN Security Council....
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Islam-West conflict rooted in ignorance: Aga Khan
NEW DELHI, Sept 22: Ignorance and rejectionism lie at the heart of the conflict between the western and the Islamic worlds, the Aga Khan said on Friday....
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Ramazan begins in S. Arabia today
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia will start Ramazan on Saturday along with most fellow Gulf Arab states, state media reported on Friday....
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S. Arabia, Israel in secret talks?
JERUSALEM, Sept 22: Saudi Arabia and Israel have been conducting secret negotiations, the top-selling Hebrew daily reported on its front page on Friday....
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Bush agrees to soften terror trial bill
WASHINGTON, Sept 22: President George Bush bowed to pressure from leading senators in his Republican party on Thursday, revising a bill for interrogating terrorism suspects that critics had said would allow abusive treatment....
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Iran to use plane for moon sighting
TEHRAN, Sept 22: Iran will employ an aeroplane to spot the moon for the start of Ramazan to ensure there is no dispute, Iranian media reported on Friday....
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Criticism of Bush angers US govt
WASHINGTON, Sept 22: The United States on Friday expressed disappointment at barbed comments aimed at President George W. Bush at the UN General Assembly this week and said it damaged the United Nations....
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Scale of casualties in Afghanistan under-reported: UK major
LONDON, Sept 22: The scale of British military casualties in Afghanistan is being under-reported, a press report said on Thursday, citing a report by a senior army officer....
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Hatred for US uniting the Third World
WASHINGTON: The outpouring of anti-American rhetoric at the United Nations this week is demonstrating how anger at the United States is uniting the developing world in a way not seen since the 1980s, US officials and analysts say....
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ME peace plan back on track
RIYADH: The Middle East peace plan adopted by the Arab League, is back into the centre stage. It could be the basis for any resolution of the decades-old Arab-Israel conflict....
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A lasting quiet in Lebanon could bring a new order
MARJAYOUN (Lebanon): Hezbollah fighters have vanished in south Lebanon, melting back into the population. Whether peace holds will depend on how Hezbollah puts up with the newest players in its longtime stronghold: the Lebanese army and a beefed-up UN peacekeeping force....
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Bush’s ‘victory’ mess in Iraq
washington: Harold Pinter wrote a play a while back called “Betrayal.” The plot was a fairly mundane story about an adulterous affair among affluent London literati....
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Japan moving away from pacifism
TOKYO: Shinzo ABE, who is virtually certain to be named Japanese prime minister next week, has said he will push to revise Japan’s constitution, including Article 9, by which the Japanese people renounce the right to make war....
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Mexico poll crisis a blow to country’s march towards democracy
MEXICO CITY: Mexico now has two presidents-elect. One officially recognized by the electoral authorities — Felipe Calderon — and the other proclaimed the “legitimate president” by millions of followers -— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador....
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