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US, Russia exchange barbs over Georgia at UN
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 11: Russia and the United States traded accusations on Sunday night over Moscow’s handling of its military operation in Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia and the bombing of Georgia proper.... 
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Three die, six missing after Gaza tunnel collapse
GAZA CITY, Aug 11: The bodies of three Palestinians have been recovered from a smuggling tunnel between Egypt and the Gaza Strip which collapsed at the weekend, while six people are missing, medics said on Monday....
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Rains claim 15 lives in India
HYDERABAD (India), Aug 11: At least 15 more people were killed overnight in heavy monsoon rains which have wrecked homes and destroyed farmland in southern India, taking the death toll over the past two days to 61, officials said on Monday....
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Nuclear talks with EU to continue: Iran
TEHRAN, Aug 11: Iran said on Monday it has agreed with the EU to continue talks aimed at resolving the nuclear crisis but again insisted it will press on with contested work despite the threat of more sanctions....
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Military operations suspended in Diyala
BAGHDAD, Aug 11: The Iraqi government said on Monday it has halted military operations in Diyala province for a week to give insurgents time to surrender, even as deadly bombings struck the area northeast of Baghdad....
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Former Thai PM skips bail
BANGKOK: Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra skipped bail on Monday to London, alleging that political enemies who removed him in a 2006 coup were interfering in the courts to “finish off” him and his family....
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9 Turkish soldiers killed in Kurd attack
TUNCELI, Aug 11: Nine Turkish soldiers including a lieutenant colonel were killed on Monday when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device planted by separatist guerillas, military sources said....
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Thousands flee as Manila strafes Muslim region
MANILA, Aug 11: Philippine attack aircraft and artillery bombed Muslim rebel positions for a second day on Monday, raising fears of a humanitarian disaster in the south with nearly 130,000 refugees forced to flee....
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Lankan army claims killing 115 Tigers in offensive
COLOMBO, Aug 11: Sri Lankan troops killed 115 Tamil Tiger rebels in weekend fighting in the far north of the island, the military said on Monday, as government forces continued their push into the rebels’ northern stronghold....
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Roman temple ruins found in Israel
JERUSALEM, Aug 11: Archaeologists have found the ruins of a pagan temple dating back to Roman times in the Galilee region of northern Israel, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem said on Monday....
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Jordan king makes first visit to Iraq since 2003
BAGHDAD, Aug 11: Jordan’s King Abdullah II held talks with Iraqi leaders on Monday on the first visit to Iraq by an Arab head of state since the 2003 US-led invasion and fall of Saddam Hussein....
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US study shows it’s possible to be fat and fit
WASHINGTON, Aug 11: It may be possible to be both fat and healthy, researchers reported on Monday for at least half of overweight adults, and close to a third of obese...
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Indians get death for Australian’s murder
NEW DELHI: An Indian court sentenced two taxi drivers to death on Monday for raping and murdering an Australian tourist in the nation’s capital four years ago, court officials said....
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Soul icon Isaac Hayes dies
LOS ANGELES: Oscar-winning soul singer Isaac Hayes who, along with Al Green, James Brown and Stevie Wonder, was one of the dominant black artists in the early 1970s, died in Memphis on Sunday....
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BD teacher sacked for haircuts
DHAKA: A Bangladeshi teacher has been sacked after he chopped off chunks of his students’ hair to punish them for being naughty, the school’s headmaster said on Monday....
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Afghan lawmakers avoid problems, debate terminology
KABUL: As insurgent attacks reach record levels, relations with Pakistan sink to new lows and rising food prices hurt millions, the Afghan parliament on Monday grappled with what word to use for ‘university’....
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Zimbabwe rivals locked in new round of crisis talks
HARARE, Aug 11: Zimbabwe’s political rivals were locked in a new round of power-sharing talks on Monday to end the country’s crisis after President Robert Mugabe warned the opposition not to be “used by enemies”....
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Pipeline fire extinguished
ANKARA: A fire at a major oil pipeline in eastern Turkey, sparked by a blast last week, was extinguished on Monday, officials told Anatolia news agency....
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US lawyer gets 3-year jail term in Belarus
MINSK, Aug 11: A court in Belarus jailed a US lawyer for three years on Monday on charges of industrial espionage and carrying forged documents, a verdict certain to plunge relations between the two countries deeper into crisis....
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Invisibility cloak one step closer, claim scientists
WASHINGTON, Aug 11: Scientists have created two new types of materials that can bend light the wrong way, creating the first step toward an invisibility cloaking device....
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Two terror suspects go on trial in Denmark
COPENHAGEN, Aug 11: Two alleged Islamic militants accused of preparing a bomb attack went on trial in Denmark on Monday, with prosecutors showing secret video footage of them testing a highly explosive material in an apartment building in Copenhagen....
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How the surge worked in Iraq
WASHINGTON: Given the divisive debate over the Iraq war, perhaps it was inevitable that the accomplishments of the recently concluded ‘surge’ would become shrouded in the fog of 30-second sound bites....
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UK industry wants top pupils to study extra sciences
LONDON: Britain’s brightest schoolchildren should be required to study three sciences from the age of 14 to counter a shortage in suitably qualified employees, the country’s leading industry body said on Monday....
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Olympic killing was a random case of ‘violence’
BEIJING: The fatal stabbing of an American on the first full day of the Beijing Olympic Games was “a random act of violence”, the son-in-law of the victim said on Monday, endorsing the view of Chinese police and US officials....
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Justice is hard to import
OSLO: Norway has announced a small but significant grant for reforms of Afghanistan’s justice sector, which observers say is still severely underdeveloped seven years after the US invasion.Norway’s...
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Is Rome, the eternal city, stuck in the past?
ROME: On the banks of the Tiber river by two baroque churches and Emperor Augustus’ 2,000-year-old Mausoleum sits a marble, glass and steel structure the first modern building to rise in Rome’s historic centre....
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The West ignored warning signs in Georgia
LONDON: The warning signs had been apparent for at least a year, and the Georgian government had made strenuous efforts to raise the alarm. This time last summer a Russian jet...
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