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Karzai offers talks to Omar, Hekmatyar
KABUL, Sept 29: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Saturday he would talk to two top insurgent leaders wanted by the United States, in an effort to bring peace to his country.... 
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Iraq’s Shias, Sunnis reject US partition plan
BAGHDAD, Sept 29: Shia and Sunni figures in Iraq dismissed on Saturday a US Senate plan to split Iraq along ethnic and religious lines, while the Kurds welcomed it as the “only viable solution” to the present chaos....
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Bomb blast wounds 12 tourists in Maldives
MALE, Sept 29: A homemade bomb exploded near a mosque in the Maldives’ capital, Male, on Saturday, wounding 12 foreign tourists, the islands’ government said....
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Iran terms US army, CIA terrorist
TEHRAN, Sept 29: Iranian MPs on Saturday branded the US Army and the Central Intelligence Agency as terrorist, hitting back at US lawmakers’ designation of the elite Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation....
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110,000 rally in Japan over WWII suicides row
TOKYO, Sept 29: About 110,000 people staged a rally in Okinawa on Saturday against the government’s move to instruct publishers to delete references to Japanese troops forcing islanders to commit suicide during World War II....
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Bid to bomb Muslim school thwarted
COLOMBO, Sept 29: An attempt by the Tamil Tiger rebels to bomb a Muslim school in the eastern Trincomalee district was thwarted, the military said on Friday....
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Stranded Russian trekkers rescued in northern India
NEW DELHI, Sept 29: Four Russian trekkers and four Indian porters, stranded for more than a day in a mountainous north Indian state after heavy snow, have been rescued by helicopter, a district official said on Saturday....
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North Korea urges US to drop ‘hostile policy’
BEIJING, Sept 29: Six-nation talks on North Korea’s nuclear programme entered a third day on Saturday as a pro-Pyongyang paper said success in the negotiations depended on US willingness to abandon its ‘hostile policy’....
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Myanmar’s crackdown hampers food delivery: WFP
BANGKOK, Sept 29: Myanmar’s bloody crackdown on protesters has hampered efforts to distribute food to 500,000 vulnerable people, mostly children, the World Food Programme (WFP) said on Saturday....
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Syria accuses Israel of making excuses for war DAMASCUS, Sept 29: Syria accused Israel on Saturday of making excuses for war by spreading what it described as false reports that an Israeli air raid targeted a site linked to weapons of mass destruction....
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World’s first N-plant demolished
LONDON, Sept 29: Demolition experts blew up on Saturday the giant cooling towers of the world’s first commercial nuclear power station, 51 years after it was opened in northwest England....
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14 die in Iran accident
TEHRAN, Sept 29: A fuel tanker collided with a bus in south-eastern Iran setting the two vehicles on fire and killing 14 people, ISNA news agency reported on Saturday....
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Facebook users trading privacy for friends?
PARIS: Social networking sites like Facebook have wooed millions of users with their easy format for keeping in touch but left them navigating the pitfalls of interacting online — is it...
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‘Silicon Ribbon’ emerging across North Africa
PARIS: Poised attractively near to the European market and with an abundance of skilled labour, North Africa may be poised to become an electronics manufacturing hub....
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Bush’s climate speech ‘exposed as charade’
WASHINGTON: George Bush was castigated by European diplomats and found himself isolated on Friday after a special conference on climate change ended without any progress....
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Democrats face limited options to change course : Iraq policy
WASHINGTON: In their debate on Wednesday night in Hanover, NH, none of the three top Democratic presidential candidates would promise to have the US military out of Iraq by January 2013 — more than five years from now....
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Backpacker emerges as activist via internet
BANGKOK: A chance encounter in a Myanmar coffee shop turned teenage backpacker Alex Bookbinder into a political activist at the forefront of an Internet campaign that has attracted tens of thousands of supporters....
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Election talk worries Britain’s Conservatives
LONDON: David Cameron, the leader of Britain’s opposition Conservative party, likes Blackpool. Two years ago he went to the Tory (Conservative) conference there as the outsider in a contest dominated by more experienced, heavyweight politicians....
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