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India, UK push Kashmir wargames
JAMMU, Sept 26: Indian and British troops are going ahead with their high-altitude wargames in occupied Kashmir despite protests from Pakistan and pro-independence groups, an Indian defence official said on Wednesday.... 
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Indians start Siachen trek despite protests
SRINAGAR, Sept 26: A trekking expedition has left for the heavily militarised Siachen glacier in disputed Kashmir, despite objections by Pakistan, said the Indian army on Wednesday....
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Dispute over N-issue ‘closed’: Ahmadinejad
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 26: Saying that he would disregard UN Security Council’s resolutions against Iran , President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that he considered the dispute over Tehran’s nuclear programme “closed”....
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Israel’s Gaza raids kill eight Palestinians
GAZA CITY, Sept 26: At least eight Palestinians, including four militants from a group that claims links to Al Qaeda, were killed on Wednesday in two separate Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip....
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Six bombs found in Mumbai
MUMBAI, Sept 26: Police found six unexploded bombs in a Mumbai suburb on Wednesday as thousands celebrated on the streets the return home of India’s cricket team after winning the Twenty20 world title....
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Bush threatened nations that did not back Iraq invasion: paper
MADRID, Sept 26: US President George Bush threatened nations with retaliation if they did not vote for a UN resolution backing the Iraq invasion, according to a transcript published on Wednesday...
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52 killed in Vietnam bridge collapse
HANOI, Sept 26: A bridge under construction in southern Vietnam collapsed on Wednesday killing at least 52 people and leaving dozens injured, state television reported....
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Security lapse raises eyebrows
UNITED NATIONS. Sept 26: There was a pandemonium at the press conference held by the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday. It was infiltrated by Israeli lobbyists, diplomats and interests....
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Malaysian lawyers defy police in protest march PUTRAJAYA, Sept 26: Hundreds of Malaysian lawyers defied police on Wednesday to stage a rare protest demanding a probe into allegations that a lawyer fixed judicial appointments with a senior judge....
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Sanjay to stay free for a month
MUMBAI, Sept 26: Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt, sentenced to six years for keeping illegal arms linked to India’s worst bombings, will remain out of jail on a legal technicality for at least another month, his lawyer said on Wednesday....
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Iran border closure costing $1m a day: Iraq
SULAIMANIYAH, Sept 26: Iran’s closure of its frontier with Iraq is costing the autonomous Kurdish region one million dollars a day, a government minister said on Wednesday, as trucks remained stuck at the border....
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Collapses of bridges over the past decade
PARIS: Some deadly bridge collapses around the world since 2000:...
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Childrens do learn — another Bush gaffe
NEW YORK, Sept 26: Offering a grammar lesson guaranteed to make any English teacher cringe, President George Bush told a group of New York school kids on Wednesday: “Childrens do learn.”...
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Budget unveiled in ‘bankrupt’ France
PARIS, Sept 26: President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government on Wednesday unveils its first budget since taking office, with state spending under scrutiny after the prime minister warned that France was bankrupt.Prime...
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Afghans have great expectations from their nascent army
KABUL: Covered in dust and sweating in the unforgiving midday heat, Afghan soldier Rahimullah and his fellow troopers practice shooting at a wooden dummy at a military training ground in Kabul....
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Indian PM turns 75 with a theatrical flourish
NEW DELHI: India’s studious prime minister Manmohan Singh flirted with Bollywood film glamour on Wednesday to celebrate his 75th birthday....
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The tide turns for tsunami-hit entrepreneurs
BENTOTA: In several coastal hamlets in Sri Lanka the tide has turned for potters, batik designers and other entrepreneurs whose small-scale businesses were hit hard by the December 2004 tsunami....
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Mental scars surface as India’s floods recede
KOLKATA: The devastation caused by floods in northeast and east India has left thousands of people with psychological problems, including post-traumatic stress disorder, health officials said....
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BD’s flood-hit areas grapple with child malnutrition
DHAKA: As flood waters continue to recede throughout much of Bangladesh after this year’s above average monsoon rains, health experts have expressed concern over child malnutrition in the country....
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LTTE supremo decides to hand over baton to son
COLOMBO: As Sri Lanka’s twenty four year old civil war drags on with no clear solution in sight, reports reveal that a militarily weakening Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) headed...
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