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Hamas govt risks dismissal, says Abbas
RAMALLAH, Oct 28: Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas told the EU’s top diplomat that he would dissolve the Hamas-led government within two weeks if the militant group doesn’t agree to form a governing coalition with his Fatah Party, Palestinian officials said Friday.... 
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US hails airborne laser as weapons milestone
WASHINGTON, Oct 28: The head of the Pentagon’s Missile Defence Agency on Friday hailed what he described as epochal progress toward putting a high-energy laser aboard a modified Boeing Co 747...
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Afghan effort hurt by Iraq: Italy
ROME, Oct 28: The peacekeeping effort in Afghanistan is worsening because the United States concentrated its efforts in Iraq and strategists underestimated the difficulty of the task, Italy’s foreign minister said....
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Iraqi PM says he’s not ‘America’s man’
BAGHDAD, Oct 28: Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Friday warned ‘I’m not America’s man in Iraq’, an aide said....
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US Muslims support Democrats: poll
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 28: A majority of American Muslims are likely to support the Democratic Party in the Nov 7 mid-term elections, in which, according to several polls, President George Bush’s Republican Party is likely to lose control of the Congress....
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California wildfire kills four
BEAUMONT (USA), Oct 28: A lull in hot, dry winds that had fuelled a deadly southern California wildfire gave fire-fighters a break on Saturday, but they warned residents to remain wary of the deadly, unpredictable blaze....
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CIA chief meets Saudi king
JEDDAH, Oct 28: CIA director Michael Hayden on Saturday personally delivered a message from US President George Bush to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah, the official SPA news agency said....
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US deaths hit 21-month high
BAGHDAD, Oct 28: October became the deadliest month for US soldiers in Iraq in nearly two years on Saturday with the announcement of the death of a Marine in the western Anbar province....
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Berlin under pressure to catch culprits
BERLIN, Oct 28: A German newspaper on Saturday published more photographs showing soldiers posing with human skulls and bones in Afghanistan as pressure mounted on the government to find the culprits....
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600,000 Lankans face food shortage: UN
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 28: Some 600,000 inhabitants of Sri Lanka’s Jaffna peninsula, already buffeted by decades of conflict, are now facing food and fuel shortages as a result of a recent...
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EU fails to act as honest broker in Mideast
LONDON: During his recent visit to the Middle East, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana met Avigdor Lieberman, leader of the Yisroel Beitenu party, which advocates the forced expulsion of the Palestinians from their land....
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Eta under cloud of suspicion
MADRID: Is the Basque separatist group, Eta, preparing to get back into the business of terrorism, seven months after calling what was meant to be a permanent ceasefire? That was the...
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US, S. Korea to forge plan for military action against North
WASHINGTON: In light of North Korea’s nuclear test, the United States and South Korea have agreed to develop a new contingency plan to take military action against North Korea in scenarios...
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Schroeder scorns Blair-Bush ties
BERLIN: Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has written a damning critique of Tony Blair’s special relationship with the United States, saying it hampered Britain’s links with Europe....
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Bush under pressure to engage Syria
WASHINGTON: While US President George W. Bush appeared this week to reject suggestions that Washington directly engage the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, pressure both here and in the region...
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Business, family ties rule on Syria-Lebanon border
DEIR AL-ASHAYER FARMS (Syria): Syrian farmer Mostafa Hamoud uses dirt roads cutting through orchards to reach the land he has owned for decades across the border in Lebanon....
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The Grand Ayatollah behind the curtain
WASHINGTON: The question directed this week to the National Security Council press office was straightforward: “Has the Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani met any American official, either military or civilian, since the...
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