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US moves to target Iran’s partners: Congress passes bill
WASHINGTON, Sept 30: The US Congress early on Saturday gave its final approval to a new set of sanctions targeting foreign countries that continue nuclear cooperation with Iran and sell it advanced weaponry.... 
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Russia puts off Georgia pullout
TBILISI, Sept 30: Russia raised the stakes in a spying row with Georgia on Saturday by suspending a scheduled pullout of its troops from the former Soviet state....
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Israeli minister calls for killing Nasrallah
JERUSALEM, Sept 30: Israel should ‘liquidate’ Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah ‘at the first opportunity’, Infrastructure Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer, a former defence minister, told army radio on Saturday....
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50 hurt as BD police fire at workers
DHAKA, Sept 30: Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets on thousands of textile workers demanding higher wages in the Bangladesh capital, injuring around 50 people....
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Chinese PM pledges to fight graft
BEIJING, Sept 30: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao promised to fight corruption and pursue economic reform as the Communist Party marked its 57th anniversary in power on Saturday amid its highest-level graft scandal in a decade....
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Lankan govt accused of gagging media
COLOMBO, Sept 30: The Sri Lankan government is trying to gag the media by giving written instructions to newspapers and television networks calling for ‘responsible reporting’ on defence-related matters, it was alleged on Saturday....
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Gorbachev defends Muslims
PRIMOSTEN (Croatia), Sept 30: Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on Saturday accused the United States of unilateralism in international affairs and antagonising allies in its approach to fighting terrorism....
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Dengue fever claims 11 lives in Delhi
NEW DELHI, Sept 30: Eleven people, including a medical student at India’s top hospital, have died from a strain of mosquito-borne dengue virus in New Delhi over the past fortnight, a report said on Saturday....
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Probe team did not meet Israeli officials: UN
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 30: A board of inquiry into an Israeli attack in Lebanon that killed four United Nations military observers in July had no access to the commanders involved and...
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Pragmatism marks revitalized Russia-Cuba ties HAVANA: Several agreements designed to bolster bilateral trade have breathed new life into relations between Cuba and Russia, in which the pragmatism of business has replaced the ideological affinities of the past....
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Job fears dominate election campaign in Austria
VIENNA: When Austrian Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser wants to tell people why they should vote for his government he holds up German magazine articles about Austria....
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Situation in Iraq is ‘dire’: Straw
LONDON: The former foreign secretary Jack Straw has described the situation in Iraq as “dire”, blaming mistakes made by the US for the escalating crisis. Mr Straw — now the Leader...
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East meets West at Kazakh oilfield
TENGIZ (Kazakhstan): The Tengiz oilfield in Kazakhstan is a blend of Western corporate culture and old Soviet ways — even through it’s been years since US oil firm Chevron came to develop it....
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Out-sourced e-tutoring growing in US
BOSTON: Private tutors are a luxury many American families cannot afford, costing anywhere between $25 to $100 an hour. But California mother Denise Robison found one online for $2.50...
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Belarus’s secret school
MINSK: For three years, teachers at the Yakub Kolos lycee have been leading their pupils from one secret address to another....
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Scientists set sights on ‘green’ chemistry
BROOKLIN (Canada): A green chemical revolution is under way that promises to be environmentally sustainable and profitable while reducing the risks of industrial disasters like India’s Bhopal gas leak in 1984....
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