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Bombs kill 15 in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Sept 8: Bombs killed 15 people in Iraq on Saturday including 10 in Baghdad, police said, as US President George W. Bush said he would address Americans next week to... 
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Uneven progress in Iraq: US general
WASHINGTON, Sept 8: US success in quelling violence in Iraq is uneven, and political progress there is not as the he had hoped, General David Petraeus, the US commander in Iraq, said in a letter to US forces....
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Thousands in Sydney march against Bush
SYDNEY, Sept 8: Two policemen were injured and 17 protesters arrested as thousands marched in Sydney against visiting US President George W. Bush on Saturday, although police fears of a full-scale riot proved unfounded....
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Widespread protests as India hosts naval exercises
NEW DELHI: India’s hosting of large-scale military exercises involving four countries led by the United States has triggered spirited protests by left-wing parties that prop up the country’s ruling coalition....
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New Osama video signals ‘new attacks’
LONDON, Sept 8: Abandoning his Kalashnikov and dyeing his beard from grey to black, Osama bin Laden presents a new image to the world in a video that makes no specific...
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Indonesia wants access to workers in US camps: report
JAKARTA, Sept 8: Indonesia is seeking access to some 72 migrant workers who have been kept at US military camps in Iraq despite the expiry of their employment contracts, a report said on Saturday....
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Ban terms meeting with Qadhafi encouraging
SIRTE (Libya), Sept 8: UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Saturday met Libyan leader Moamer Qadhafi, who is seen as a key player in the latest push to end the four-year conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region....
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Afghan MPs demand apology
KABUL, Sept 8: Afghanistan’s parliament demanded on Saturday that US-led forces apologise for distributing footballs that carried Quranic verses and have been labelled insulting to Islam....
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US drone kills two suspected bombers
BAGHDAD, Sept 8: A US military drone dropped a bomb that killed two suspected roadside bombers in northern Iraq, the American military said on Saturday, hailing the operation as the first of its kind....
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Indian govt must not again betray the victims: Bhopal tragedy
A COUPLE of years ago I visited Bhopal, the central Indian city where a toxic gas leak on the night of December 2, 1984 killed at least 3,000 people within 24 hours....
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New alert system for turbulent flights
WASHINGTON: Scientists are testing a new turbulence system that alerts pilots to patches of rough air as they fly through clouds....
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US should exit now for the sake of peace in Iraq
WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards have suggested that there is little difference among us on Iraq. This is not true: I am the only leading Democratic candidate committed to getting all our troops out and doing so quickly....
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Novel born in a Bhopal clinic
BHOPAL: Of the 11-12 books written on the heart-rending Union Carbide gas disaster of 1984, Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People, one of six novels shortlisted on Thursday for this year’s £50,000 Man...
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With her experience, Hillary gambles to change the system
NEW YORK: In a year voters say they crave fundamental political change, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton is taking a gamble: arguing that her years of experience working within the political system make her the best candidate to change the system....
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Early rising may be bad for health
ARE you a habitual early riser? You might be at a higher risk of heart disease. Junking the age old mantra that professed waking up early as good for health, a...
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