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Zimbabwe rivals resume talks: Power-sharing
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 3: Zimbabwe’s rival parties resumed power-sharing talks on Sunday, one day before the expiry of a deadline to conclude discussions over ending the country’s ruinous political crisis.... 
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Bangladeshis go to polls today: First phase of local elections
DHAKA, Aug 3: Bangladeshis go to the polls on Monday to vote in the first phase of local elections amid enthusiasm stoked up by a court ruling allowing political parties, but overshadowed by a continuing state of emergency....
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20 die in Mogadishu blast
MOGADISHU, Aug 3: A roadside bomb caused carnage in Somalia on Sunday with a group of women sweeping a Mogadishu street “torn to pieces” amid a body count of at least 20 civilians, according to witnesses and medics....
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Israel presses Gaza sick to become informers
JERUSALEM, Aug 3: Israeli security agents have been pressuring Gazans seeking medical treatment abroad to work as informers in violation of international law, an Israeli rights group said....
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Muslims to have wide economic powers in Manila deal
MANILA, Aug 3: Muslims in the southern Philippines would have wide powers over their resource-rich local economy, including the right to revoke existing mineral contracts, if an eventual peace deal is agreed with Manila....
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Kuwait to limit visas for workers
KUWAIT, Aug 3: Kuwait wants to limit work permits for some nationalities, a government minister said on Sunday, following violent protests over pay that led the Gulf Arab state to deport...
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London newspaper cuts cover price
LONDON: Britain’s best-selling Sun tabloid will cut its cover price to 30 pence ($0.59) from 35 pence in all regions of the UK from Monday, owner News International said, as UK newspapers struggle with a steep drop in ad sales....
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World’s smallest snake identified
WASHINGTON: Scientists have identified the world’s smallest snake — a reptile about 4 inches (10 cm) long and as thin as spaghetti that was found lurking under a rock on the Caribbean island of Barbados....
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22 students hospitalised in BD ‘mass hysteria’
DHAKA: At least 22 students have been hospitalised in Bangladesh after a mystery illness that health experts describe as “mass hysteria” struck another school, a health official said on Sunday....
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20 girls rescued from human traffickers
MANILA: Twenty young Filipina girls have been rescued from a Manila house where they were locked up by a human trafficking syndicate, police said on Sunday....
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100 hurt by lightning in Norway
OSLO: Nearly 100 people were slightly hurt when lightning struck down several times among spectators at a rally-cross race in southeastern Norway on Sunday, police said....
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Pornographic websites banned in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s president has ordered an immediate ban on pornographic websites in a bid to prevent children being exposed to adult content, the telecommunications regulator said on Sunday....
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Rich must not bully the poor: that’s why Doha matters
LONDON: It was the American baseball player Yogi Berra who once greeted a repeating pattern of failure with the infamous epithet: “This is like déjà vu all over again.”...
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‘Respondent deceased’ — case closed: Scientist’s death compounds anthrax mystery—II
WASHINGTON: Ezzell said the experiments did not involve anthrax in its dried form, the type found in the letter to then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D.,...
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Bruised S. Korean govt takes on ‘infodemics’
SEOUL: South Korea’s unpopular young government is having second thoughts about the benefits of running the world’s most wired society....
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