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4 killed in Hamas-Fatah clashes in Gaza
GAZA, Aug 2: Three Hamas policemen and a member of a pro-Fatah clan were killed on Saturday in the Gaza Strip, medics said, in internecine violence that could complicate Arab-backed efforts to reconcile the rival Palestinian factions.... 
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Tehran ignores deadline on nuclear offer
BRUSSELS, Aug 2: Iran has so far ignored an informal Saturday deadline to respond to an offer by major powers on its nuclear programme, a European Union official said, but the...
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All but five members of Somali cabinet resign
BAIDOA, Aug 2: Two thirds of Somalia''s cabinet ministers resigned on Saturday, officials said, widening a rift between the president and prime minister that threatens to wreck the country''s interim government....
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Thai PM reshuffles cabinet
BANGKOK, Aug 2: Thailand’s embattled prime minister announced a cabinet reshuffle on Saturday, a widely expected move seen as an attempt to fend off growing calls for his resignation....
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Aids virus infects 56,000 in US every year: study
WASHINGTON, Aug 2: At least 56,000 people become infected with the Aids virus every year in the United States — 40 per cent more than previous estimates, according to a report from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention....
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ETA member freed after 21 years
MADRID, Aug 2: One of ETA''s most notorious members left a Spanish jail on Saturday after serving 21 years for offences including the killing of 25 people, prompting victims'' groups to hold countrywide protests....
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A cool initiative
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 2: In an effort to supplement the efforts of environmentalists, the United Nations has decided to raise its thermostats from 70 F degrees to 77 F degrees throughout its headquarters’ in New York....
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Scientist’s death compounds anthrax mystery
WASHINGTON: For most of his career, he was a casting agent’s vision of a bench scientist: shy, eccentric, nerdy, soft-spoken. But sometime this spring, with the FBI closing in on him, Bruce E....
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Farewell, free market
WASHINGTON: Not so many years ago, respectable people seemed to agree where the world was headed. Communism had fallen to capitalism, and a particular strain of capitalism the entrepreneurial, market-driven capitalism...
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Impossible to take pictures in London
LONDON: Privacy International’s fated struggle to stop the Google spy car stalking the UK’s streets has reminded me of my own brush with the country’s photography police recently....
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Lonely in old age, but not bored
LONDON: The other day, when I got home from work, I tried to put a bottle of pinot grigio in the washing machine. Well, it made a nice change to the time I tried to put my book in the fridge....
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US military says 10,000 detainees freed in Iraq
BAGHDAD: The US military said on Saturday it has freed more than 10,000 people from its two detention centres in Iraq so far this year — over the 8,900 released during 2007....
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A golden age that never was
LONDON: Most of us, it seems, were born too late; we’ve missed the best of Britain. The head of the UK’s teaching union, Voice, in complaining that poor parenting has created...
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