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Israel to free 250 Palestinian prisoners
JERUSALEM, July 8: Israel’s cabinet agreed on Sunday to release 250 Palestinian prisoners in the latest attempt to strengthen Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after Hamas’s seizure of the Gaza Strip.... 
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Bangalore jolted by link to UK bomb plot
BANGALORE, July 8: Bangaloreans have been jolted by revelations that three highly-educated young men from a city that prides itself as India''s knowledge capital may be linked to an international terror plot....
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Iraq a ‘lost cause’, says US paper
WASHINGTON, July 8: The New York Times on Sunday called for US troops to leave Iraq now, writing that President George W. Bush''s plan to stabilize the country through military means is a lost cause....
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Seven ‘new’ wonders of the world named
LISBON, July 8: Seven “new” wonders of the world including the Great Wall of China, the Taj Mahal and the Colosseum in Rome were chosen overnight by nearly 100 million Internet and phone voters, upsetting purists....
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Violent weather hits southwestern China
BEIJING: At least 68 people were reported dead or missing due to fierce weather in China over the past week, with most of the fatalities due to flooding in the nation’s southwest, state press said on Sunday....
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Britons mistreat Russians, says envoy
LONDON, July 8: Russia’s envoy to Britain, in comments reflecting Moscow''s chilly ties with London, complained in an interview on Sunday that Russians in Britain were treated like the mafia and suffered assaults by nationalist groups....
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Death toll from heavy rains in India rises
KOLKATA: The death toll from heavy rains in India has climbed to about 660 as a minister said on Sunday more than a million people were stranded in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal....
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Three pro-govt Afghans shot dead
KANDAHAR: Taliban rebels gunned down three pro-government officials and one of their sons in Afghanistan, authorities said on Sunday, also reporting a dozen more insurgents were killed in new clashes....
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Democrats have daggers drawn for Bush
WASHINGTON: With daggers drawn for a weakened White House, congressional Democrats return from a short recess this week plotting to further undermine President George W. Bush’s waning political sway....
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Get rid of junk emails
LONDON: “You can”, my mother used to say, “have too much of a good thing”. Since she was generally not in favour of good things (which she equated with self-indulgence), I habitually disregarded this advice....
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Instability haunts Lebanon a year after Israel war
BEIRUT: Fear that political deadlock may spill into violence is gripping Lebanon, a year after Israel and Hezbollah guerillas jumped into a war that shattered trust between rival Lebanese camps....
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Palestinian crisis Framers of constitution challenge Abbas
NABLUS (West Bank): The senior lawyers who wrote the interim Palestinian constitution say President Mahmoud Abbas exceeded his powers in appointing an emergency government to replace a Hamas-led cabinet without parliamentary approval....
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