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Anti-Muslim remarks criticised
NEW YORK, Sept 21: A republican politician who represents a suburb of New York , was chided for saying that “United States has too many mosques “ which breed radicals .... 
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Blackwater back in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Sept 21: Despite opposition from Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, US security company Blackwater was back on the streets of Baghdad on Friday, four days after being grounded over a fatal shooting incident....
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Concern over Israel move against Gaza
UNITED NATIONS: United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Friday voiced grave concern over Israel’s decision to declare the Gaza Strip a “hostile territory”....
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Israel carried out secret attack on Syria: Netanyahu
JERUSALEM, Sept 21: Israel’s opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu has given the first confirmation from Israel of a mysterious air strike on an unknown target deep in Syria earlier this month - fuelling frenzied speculation about exactly what happened....
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No respite in Nepal violence
KATHMANDU, Sept 21: Communal unrest in southern Nepal is worsening and authorities need to act quickly to prevent all-out violence in the ethnically tense region, police and rights activists said on Friday....
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BD protesters defy emergency
DHAKA, Sept 21: Street clashes broke out in Bangladesh on Friday as Islamic activists defied emergency rule to protest over the publication in a major newspaper of a cartoon deemed offensive to Muslims....
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Hindu god row escalates in India
CHENNAI, Sept 21: A state leader in India has dismissed a deity worshipped by millions as a “big lie”, deepening a highly sensitive row over plans to dredge a shipping lane through an area sacred to Hindus....
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Thousands march in Yangon
YANGON, Sept 21: At least 3,000 people led by Buddhist monks marched along flooded streets in Yangon on Friday, piling pressure on Myanmar’s ruling junta in the most sustained challenge to its rule in nearly 20 years....
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Police raid former RAW official’s house
New Delhi: Police on Friday raided the home of a former sleuth of the external spy agency, RAW, who had accused his colleagues of corruption, including the charge they had bought...
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Tigers’ base bombed
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan war planes bombed a Tamil Tiger ammunition store in the north of the island on Friday, causing heavy damage, the defence ministry said, while claiming killing five rebels elsewhere....
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Lebanon pays final respects to Ghanem
BEIRUT, Sept 21: Lebanese politicians and thousands of mourners turned out on Friday for the funeral of anti-Syrian MP Antoine Ghanem, whose assassination has raised tensions in the runup to a key presidential vote....
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Seven ‘caves’ found on Mars
WASHINGTON: An orbiting spacecraft has found evidence of what look like seven caves on the slopes of a Martian volcano, the space agency NASA said on Friday....
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Girl student held with ‘fake bomb’
BOSTON: A 19-year-old girl student was arrested at gunpoint at Boston airport on Friday after walking into the terminal with what authorities believed to be a bomb strapped to her chest, police said....
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Serial killer on the loose in Delhi
NEW DELHI: Indian police and vigilantes were on Friday hunting for a man suspected to have bludgeoned four women to death in similar attacks that have earned the suspect the nickname “hammerman.”...
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Anti-Muslim media drive may become racist witch-hunt
LONDON: Britons are now more suspicious of Muslims than are Americans or citizens of any other major western European country, including France. According to an international Harris poll last month, nearly...
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Al Qaeda takes ‘media jihad’ to new heights
PARIS: The sixth anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks has provided an opportunity for Al Qaeda to show off once again its mastery of the Internet as a tool for international propaganda, terrorism experts said on Friday....
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Racial row adds new twist to US presidential race
WASHINGTON: With images of 1960s-style protests being aired from a Deep South town on Thursday, the Jena 6 case involving black teenagers arrested for beating a white schoolmate has tossed a political hand grenade into the race for the White House....
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Democrats fail to stop troop surge
WASHINGTON: Unable to block the start of President George W. Bush’s Iraq war troop increase last winter, congressional Democrats now are powerless to hasten its end....
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Genome of elephantiasis worm mapped
WASHINGTON: Scientists have mapped the genome of a worm that causes elephantiasis in what they called on Thursday an important step toward developing new drugs or vaccines to fight the mosquito-borne disfiguring disease....
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Dying alone — the macabre side of an ageing Japan
TOKYO: In a leafy Tokyo suburb, a landlord visits his tenant only to discover a skeleton inside the apartment. The tenant had died three years before....
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