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Taliban adopted WWI-style tactics in fight against Nato: General
PASHMUL: Quiet reigns over this dusty plain strewn with orchards and crossed with lunar-like mountains. For two weeks, Nato and the Taliban battled each other here, in this symbolic region of... 
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Muslims must apologise for conquest: Aznar: Former Spanish PM defends Pope
MADRID, Sept 23: Former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar on Friday defended Pope Benedict XVI’s comments about Islam, saying the pontiff had no need to apologise and asking why Muslims never did, according to newspaper reports published on Saturday....
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Rice meets Libyan FM
NEW YORK, Sept 23: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Libya’s foreign minister on Saturday in their first encounter since the United States restored full diplomatic ties with its former foe last May....
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DPRK trying to make more plutonium: US official
BEIJING, Sept 23: North Korea is making plans to unload fuel rods from a nuclear reactor to make plutonium for weapons, seeking to pressure Washington into direct talks, a visiting US scholar said on Saturday....
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Muslim charity raided in US
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 23: Authorities in the United States on Thursday raided one of the biggest Muslim charities, the Michigan-based Life for Relief and Development....
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Palestinians urged to clarify stand: Saudi peace initiative
RIYADH, Sept 23: With reports of movement on Arab-Israel peace initiative pouring in form unexpected quarters, a sense of urgency seems to be enveloping the Arab world not to let this opportunity go to waste....
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Russia not to join UN force in Lebanon
COMPIEGNE (France), Sept 23: Russia intends to send troops to Lebanon, but not as part of the UN peacekeeping force there and only if all parties in the region agree, President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday....
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Putin assures Europe over gas supply
COMPIEGNE (France), Sept 23: President Vladimir Putin sought to reassure France and Germany on Saturday they had nothing to fear from Russia’s growing economic clout and held out the prospect of more natural gas for Europe....
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US delegation for Beirut
WASHINGTON, Sept 23: President George Bush on Saturday named a delegation of business leaders and US officials to visit Lebanon to discuss plans for rebuilding the country in the wake of the devastation wrought by Israel....
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Helicopter missing in Nepal with 24 aboard
KATHMANDU, Sept 23: A helicopter carrying 24 people, including a government minister and senior World Wildlife Fund officials, went missing in Nepal on Saturday and officials said they feared it had crashed....
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Man stabs wife, daughter on highway
BATON ROUGE (USA), Sept 23: A man repeatedly stabbed his two-year-old daughter and estranged wife along a highway in Louisiana state on Friday while horrified people watched from their cars in rush-hour traffic....
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Lebanese army on border after 38 years
NAQURA (Lebanon), Sept 23: Lebanese soldiers, backed by UN Peacekeepers, deployed on Saturday for the first time in decades at posts on the volatile border with Israel, as the Hezbollah chief said his guerillas were stronger than ever....
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Anger grows against coup in Thailand
BANGKOK: As Thailand’s 18th coup ended its third day, the first cracks against a military solution to a political problem have surfaced. A small group of dissidents gathered to voice their...
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Opposition loses, but gains in Yemen election
SANA’A: Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been re-elected as expected, but the opposition gained new ground in elections earlier this week. The Supreme Commission for Elections and Referendum (SCER) has...
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Bionic woman now a reality
CHICAGO: It’s the stuff of science fiction: a prosthetic arm that can be moved just by thinking about it and can feel heat and the pressure of a handshake....
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Lebanon splits resurface after Israel invasion
BEIRUT: Rifts between Hezbollah and its Lebanese opponents will ensure that Lebanon has no easy ride as it tries to rebuild the economy and state institutions after Israel’s devastating war with the Shi’ite Muslim guerrillas....
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Bush forced to take cover at UN meeting
UNITED NATIONS: President George W. Bush has had to grit his teeth and put up with one of the most anti-American UN General Assemblies in recent years....
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