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Iran looking for new US approach, says Ahmadinejad
WASHINGTON, July 28: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an interview aired on US television on Monday that if the United States adopted a genuinely new approach to his country Tehran would respond in a positive way.... 
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US waiting for ‘definitive statement’ from Iran
WASHINGTON: The United States said on Monday it was awaiting a “definitive statement” from Iran following remarks by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that Tehran would respond in a positive way if Washington adopted a genuinely new approach to his country....
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Manila, Moros resume talks on ‘ancestral domain’
MANILA, July 28: Peace talks between the Philippine government and Muslim separatists have resumed after the rebels initially rejected a draft agreement on the sharing of natural resources, the two sides said on Monday....
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Olmert doubts peace deal this year
JERUSALEM, July 28: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Monday that Israel and the Palestinians will not be able to agree this year on a peace deal that includes the crucial issue of Jerusalem....
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US pushing for deal: White House
WASHINGTON,: The White House said on Monday it was continuing to press Israel and the Pales-tinians to reach a peace deal even though Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he did...
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Zimbabwe opposition chief flies to S. Africa
JOHANNESBURG, July 28: Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai flew to South Africa on Monday amid claims by his party that talks on ending the country’s political crisis had run into trouble....
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Erdogan blames Kurd rebels for Istanbul blasts: Death toll reaches 17
ISTANBUL, July 28: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan implicitly blamed separatist Kurdish rebels Monday for two bomb blasts that ripped through a crowded Istanbul street, killing 17 people and wounding more than 150....
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Police break up workers’ protest in Kuwait
KUWAIT CITY, July 28: Riot policemen wielding batons on Monday broke up a demonstration in Kuwait by Bangladeshi workers and made several arrests among the protesters who were demanding a pay rise....
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‘Godfather’ meets Macbeth in Saddam drama
LONDON, July 28: The Israeli actor playing Saddam Hussein in a new television series once narrowly escaped a missile fired by the late dictator’s army....
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UN criticises France’s immigration policies
PARIS, July 28: The UN Human Rights Committee has slammed France’s immigration policies and expressed concern about overcrowding and poor conditions in its prisons, according to documents seen on Monday by newsmen....
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Scientist hopeful of ‘yeti hair’ breakthrough
LONDON, July 28: A British scientist said on Monday that he was anxiously awaiting the results of DNA tests on hair claimed to be from a yeti after initial examinations showed it had human and ape-like characteristics....
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Positive impact for Obama: Overseas trip
WASHINGTON: Will I upset you if I offer the observation that, to us in America, the British leg of Barack Obama’s tour came across as a bit of an afterthought? A...
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Lion cub triplets of rare breed born in zoo
VIENNA, July 28: Lion cub triplets thought to be a sub-species of the Atlas lion, extinct in the wild for almost a century, have been born at a Vienna zoo, curators said on Monday....
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The right place to try terrorism cases
WASHINGTON: I have spent 27 years on the federal bench. In particular, my experience with the trial of Ahmed Ressam, the “millennium bomber”, leads me to worry about Attorney-General Michael Mukasey’s...
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India must reject forces of extremism
LONDON: The bombs that went off this weekend in Ahmedabad and Bangalore, killing dozens of people who happened to be passing by the bicycles and tiffin boxes in which these devices...
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Diplomats in US abused immunity to mistreat domestic workers: report
NEW YORK: Federal investigators have uncovered numerous cases of foreign diplomats mostly in New York and Washington, D.C. who abused their domestic workers without fear of prosecution because of diplomatic immunity,...
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India behind Ethiopia in fighting child poverty
London: Four in every 10 children in India are malnourished despite the country’s economy growing at an average rate of 9 per cent a year, one of the world’s leading development economists warned on Sunday....
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Japan arrests 11 in porn bust
TOKYO, July 28: Tokyo police on Monday arrested 11 people on suspicion of selling pornography and confiscated a record of more than 130,000 videos, some depicting sex with children, officials and reports said....
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Political migration season: from operatives to pundits
WASHINGTON: Minutes before he was to appear on “Hardball”, Todd Harris was handed a wire report quoting John McCain as saying that eliminating America’s dependence on foreign oil would spare the country from fighting another Middle East war....
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