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US overriding Iraq sovereignty: Tehran
BAGHDAD, Sept 22: Iran’s ambassador to Iraq accused the United States on Saturday of going against the wishes of Baghdad in seizing a national from a northern hotel and of riding roughshod over Iraqi sovereignty.... 
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Bush thinks Hillary would succeed him
WASHINGTON, Sept 22: US President George W. Bush thinks Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton can win the 2008 presidential elections and wants her to continue his Iraq policy when she replaces him at the White House, The Washington Post reported on Saturday....
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Kabul claims seizing Iranian, Chinese arms
HERAT, Sept 22: Afghan authorities alleged on Saturday they had seized dozens of Iranian and Chinese-made weapons after a brief battle with Taliban fighters near the border with Iran....
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US collecting data of citizen Travellers
WASHINGTON, Sept 22: The US government is compiling electronic files on the travel habits of millions of Americans who take trips overseas, The Washington Post reported on Saturday....
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Frail but alert Castro appears in TV interview
HAVANA, Sept 22: Convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro has appeared on state television, looking frail but alert and laughing off speculation he was on his death bed after a long absence from public view....
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Taiwan’s bid for UN membership fails
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22: The UN General Assembly on Friday firmly rejected Taiwan’s bid to secure world body’s membership for the 15th straight year. It agreed to consider 163 agenda items during the annual session that began this week....
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Gitmo prisoners denied access to attorneys
SAN JUAN (Puerto Rico), Sept 22: Attorneys for at least 40 Guantanamo Bay prisoners have been barred from visiting or writing their clients because of a judge’s order dismissing legal challenges...
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New procedure to grow human eggs tried
LONDON, Sept 22: Two British clinics are pioneering a procedure that will allow human eggs to be grown in the laboratory from ovarian tissue samples, a newspaper said on Saturday....
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UK ‘laying claim’ to Atlantic seabed
LONDON, Sept 22: Britain is seeking to legally annex stretches of the south Atlantic seabed in a bid to tap gas, mineral and oil wealth, in a move that could raise tension with Argentina, a newspaper reported on Saturday....
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Australian rides the ‘Genghis Khan trail’
BUDAPEST: Scaring off with firecrackers and resuscitating a dog with raw eggs and vodka are just two of the wild experiences of Tim Cope during his 10,000km journey on horseback from Mongolia to Hungary....
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Democracy is the engine of political Islam : Post-9/11 scenario
LONDON: Six years after 9/11, throughout the Muslim world political Islam is on the march; the surprise is that its rise is happening democratically — not through the bomb, but the ballot box....
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White House stalls Republican defections over Iraq
WASHINGTON: Congressional Democrats’ momentum on their anti-war effort has stalled abruptly, ending weeks of hand-wringing by President George Bush’s White House....
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Lone Jew in Kabul marks Yom Kippur
KABUL: Zebulon Simentov, the last Jew in Afghanistan, is once again marking the Jewish holy day of fasting in solitude, in a deserted synagogue in the capital of a devoutly Islamic nation....
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China’s top models take over Paris catwalks
PARIS: With textile quotas about to expire, dozens of Chinese fashion firms are strutting their stuff jointly for the first time on Paris catwalks this week as Beijing attacks the high-end European market....
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