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Taliban reject new talks offer
KANDAHAR, Sept 30: Taliban on Sunday rejected President Hamid Karzai’s new offers of peace talks, insisting US-led invading troops leave the country first, as violence continued unabated..... 
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Five dead, 52 hurt in Indian blasts GUWAHATI, Sept 30: Five people were killed and 52 wounded on Sunday in two separate explosions while a third blast ripped apart a natural gas pipeline in the restive northeast Indian state of Assam, officials said. ....
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UN peace envoy meets Suu Kyi YANGON, Sept 30: UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari held talks on Sunday with Myanmar’s detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and several members of the military government to discuss ending a crackdown on protests against military rule. ....
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13 die in Turkey’s rebel attack ANKARA, Sept 30: Thirteen people died in Turkey’s volatile southeast when gunmen, apparently Kurdish rebels, sprayed a bus with machine gun fire, prompting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday to vow to punish the attackers. ....
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10 African peacekeepers killed in Darfur attack KHARTOUM, Sept 30: At least 10 African Union troops have been killed and 50 reported missing from their base in Sudan’s western Darfur region in the bloodiest attack on the peacekeeping force, the AU said on Sunday.....
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Indian girl stripped in class
NEW DELHI, Sept 30: A seven-year-old girl was made to strip naked by her teacher in a New Delhi school for not completing her homework, a police spokesman said on Sunday.....
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Khaleda granted bail
DHAKA: Former Bangladesh prime minister Khaleda Zia was granted bail by the
country’s High Court on Sunday after nearly a month in custody on corruption
charges, her lawyer said.....
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BD tycoon convicted of graft
DHAKA: One of Bangladesh’s richest men, his wife and three sons were sentenced in absentia on Sunday to five years each in jail as part of a government anti-corruption drive, officials said....
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Israel to free 87 Palestinians
JERUSALEM: Israel will free 87 Palestinian prisoners, mostly from president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah party, on Monday following a cabinet decision to make the release as a Ramazan goodwill gesture, officials said.....
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Five Israeli soldiers jailed JERUSALEM: An Israeli military court has jailed five soldiers for trafficking arms and drugs across the Egyptian border which they had been assigned to patrol, military sources said on Sunday. ....
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‘Voice of Burma’ key source on Myanmar protests OSLO: Using secret material smuggled out of Myanmar, the Oslo-based Democratic Voice of Burma’s radio and TV stations are a key source of information for those inside and outside the country on the government’s crackdown on protesters.....
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Democrats’ budget plan in limbo WASHINGTON: The most basic job of Congress is to pass the bills that pay the costs of running the government. After criticising Republicans for falling down on the job last year, Democrats now are the ones stumbling.....
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US Africa Command — a source of help or trouble? PDAKAR: The US military presents its new Africa Command (Africom) as a helping hand offering aid and training to the world’s poorest continent, but many Africans fear it could bring double trouble to a conflict-racked region...
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Indian space event renews quest to solve moon mystery HYDERABAD (India): Spacefaring nations are accelerating their quest to solve the mysteries of the moon, 35 years after the last human landing, and use it as a springboard to explore planets beyond.....
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Time running out for the making of a black president WNEW YORK: For Barack Obama it was a daring move: hold a rally last week in the heart of New York, the fortress home of his rival, Senator Hillary Clinton.....
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