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Palestinian militants pledge to halt attacks
RAMALLAH, July 15: Dozens of wanted Palestinian militants have made a rare pledge to halt anti-Israel attacks in a deal aimed at bolstering moderate president Mahmud Abbas in his battle for authority with Hamas, officials said on Sunday.... 
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Peres sworn in as Israeli president
JERUSALEM, July 15: Israeli elder statesman and Nobel peace laureate Shimon Peres was sworn in as president on Sunday, crowning an unparalleled career lasting more than half a century.“I...
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2 UK car bombing suspects freed
LONDON, July 15: Two suspects in the failed car bombings in Britain have been released without charge, British police said on Sunday, as Australia defended its tough new anti-terrorism laws that held a suspect there....
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Osama appears in video
DUBAI, July 15: Al Qaeda''s fugitive chief Osama bin Laden appeared in an undated videotape posted on the Internet on Sunday, in which he praised martyrdom....
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Military action in Afghanistan a failure, say UK generals
LONDON, July 15: Britain’s senior generals have issued a blunt warning to Downing Street that the military campaign in Afghanistan is facing failure, a development that could lead to an ‘Islamist government seizing power’ in Pakistan....
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Riyadh tells officials to abide by law
RIYADH, July 15: In a bid to restrain ‘mutawwas,’ the Saudi Ministry of Interior has instructed members of the local Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice to...
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Nuclear-free North Korea goal strewn with pitfalls
SEOUL: It took almost four years of negotiations, 50,000 tons of oil and a complex multinational banking deal to get North Korea to announce the closure of its plutonium-producing nuclear reactor....
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Lanka in war against water
NEGOMBO (Sri Lanka): Two Japanese men are neck deep in water at Sharks’ Cove opening, a new front in Sri Lanka’s battle against one of its biggest killers — water....
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2,000 Indian children in TV battle for UK scholarships
NEW DELHI: Two thousand Indian schoolchildren began a televised battle on Saturday night to win five scholarships to English universities, in the first instalment of a new prime-time show tipped to grip the nation this summer....
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Australia defends anti-terror law: Indian doctor
SYDNEY: The Australian government defended its tough new anti-terror laws on Sunday after an Indian doctor was detained for nearly two weeks before being charged in connection with the failed car-bomb attacks in Britain....
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Russian natives try to drum up support for their culture
PIMCHAKH (Russia): Listening to enigmatic Koryak-language songs and eating traditional salmon soup and cutlets in this village, it is easy to imagine indigenous cultures still thrive on Russia''s Kamchatka peninsula....
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Africa does not want foreign aid
WASHINGTON: Last fall, shortly after I returned from Nigeria, I was accosted by a perky blond college student whose blue eyes seemed to match the “African” beads around her wrists....
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