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Israel admits to using phosphorous bombs
JERUSALEM, Oct 22: The Israeli army dropped phosphorous bombs against Hezbollah guerrilla targets in Lebanon during the war there this summer, an Israeli Cabinet minister said on Sunday, confirming Lebanese allegations for the first time.... 
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Call for retaking Gaza border
JERUSALEM, Oct 22: Several Israeli cabinet ministers called on Sunday for a military operation to retake control of Gaza’s southern border and prevent Palestinian militants smuggling in weapons from neighbouring Egypt....
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Violence feared over veil row
LONDON, Oct 22: The row in Britain over Muslim women wearing the veil could trigger riots and worse, the country’s race relations watchdog chief warned on Sunday....
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UK troops to withdraw gradually: minister
LONDON, Oct 22: Britain is “quite far down” the road towards transferring responsibility for security in Iraq to national security forces but British troops will only leave when the job is done, Defence Secretary Des Browne said on Sunday....
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403 illegal migrants detained in Italy
ROME, Oct 22: Italian authorities detained over 400 illegal migrants who landed on the tiny Sicilian island of Lampedusa on Sunday, aided by calm seas in the Mediterranean, officials said....
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UK to limit Bulgarian, Romanian workers
LONDON, Oct 22: Britain plans to scrap its open-door policy to east European workers by restricting the inflow of Bulgarian and Romanian immigrants when their countries join the European Union, British newspapers reported on Sunday....
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Sudan asks UN envoy to leave
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 22: The United Nations confirmed on Sunday that Sudan has asked UN envoy Jan Pronk to leave the country, and said UN chief Kofi Annan has asked his special representative to return to New York for consultations....
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Panama canal expansion likely to be approved
PANAMA CITY, Oct 22: Voters were expected on Sunday to approve the largest modernization project in the 92-year-history of the Panama Canal, a $5.25 billion plan to expand the waterway to allow for larger ships while alleviating traffic problems....
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Japan to keep check on N. Korea
TOKYO, Oct 22: Japan plans to monitor ships heading to North Korea in waters off its western and southern coasts following the UN resolution to punish Pyongyang for its nuclear test, a newspaper reported on Sunday....
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Ex-S. Korean president dies
SEOUL, Oct 22: Former South Korean president Choi Kyu-Hah, a civilian who briefly held office between two military dictators, died on Sunday. He was 87. Choi was in a coma early...
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S. Korean protesters oppose free trade accord with US
SEOGWIPO (South Korea), Oct 22: South Koreans took to the streets on Sunday against a proposed free-trade agreement with the United States, a day before the start of a new round...
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‘Rebels’ open fire on train in India, killing one
GAUHATI, Oct 22: Suspected militants opened fire with automatic weapons at a moving train in India’s troubled northeast, killing one policeman and wounding five people, police said on Sunday....
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More unexploded bombs than people in S. Lebanon: UN: 770 cluster bomb sites identified
Of all the statistics to emerge from Israel’s recent war on Lebanon, the most shocking concerns the number of cluster bombs that Israel dropped on or fired into Lebanon....
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Egypt’s poor women also bank on Grameen
CAIRO: Thousands of poor Egyptian women are benefiting from a partnership between the Nobel peace prize-winning Grameen Bank of Bangladeshi Muhammad Yunus and a local credit organisation....
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Osama’s fingerprints seen on ruins of Bamiyan Buddhas
BAMIYAN (Afghanistan): In a huge cavity dug into the side of a cliff, workers search through the rubble to exhume the remains of the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan....
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Nuclear-armed East Asia possible
TAIPEI: Japan could make an atomic bomb in as little as six months if it, or any of its Asian neighbours, decides to go nuclear following North Korea’s nuclear test last week, touching off a potential regional arms race, analysts say....
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Poverty driving trade in Cambodia’s munitions
POIPET (Cambodia): Seng Heng was convincing enough when he said the hundreds of artillery shells and mortars scattered around him had been disarmed....
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