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Fighting in Sri Lanka kills 25
COLOMBO, Aug 16: Air force jets pounded Tamil Tiger fortifications in northern Sri Lanka on Saturday, destroying a rebel bunker line as fighting intensified in the country’s civil war, the military said.... 
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Moscow wants extra security for withdrawal
SOCHI, Aug 16: Russia defied US demands for an immediate pullout of its troops from Georgia on Saturday, saying extra security arrangements needed to be put in place before a withdrawal could begin....
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Kiev looking for missile ties with West
KIEV, Aug 16: Ukraine is prepared to open its missile defence network to cooperation with European and other foreign powers, the ex-Soviet republic’s foreign ministry said on Saturday....
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Egyptian woman gives birth to septuplets
CAIRO, Aug 16: An Egyptian woman gave birth to septuplets early on Saturday in the coastal city of Alexandria after taking fertility drugs in effort to produce a son, a hospital director said....
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Kurd officials split on pullout from Diyala
ARBIL, Aug 16: Iraqi Kurdish officials gave conflicting accounts on Saturday of whether they would withdraw their Peshmerga fighters from a restive province outside the autonomous Kurdistan region....
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Upheaval displaces thousands of Georgians
TBILISI: They squat in abandoned buildings, crash in rickety schoolhouses and sleep under bushes and trees. They stumble into the city wooden-faced and traumatised, children in tow, with little or nothing...
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Europe’s energy source in shadow of Russia’s anger
LONDON: When Russian tanks poured into South Ossetia, it was the clearest turning point in Russia’s relations with the West since the fall of the Berlin Wall: Russia not only managed...
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Panel calls for alternative to nuclear weapons
WASHINGTON: A National Research Council blue-ribbon panel of defence experts is recommending development and testing of a conventional warhead for submarine-launched intercontinental Trident missiles to give the president an alternative to...
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US likely to ease spying rules
WASHINGTON: The US Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about Americans, share the sensitive data...
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Debt trap breaks Indian middle class dream into pieces
NEW DELHI: In the past two months, Ravinder Raina tossed and turned on many sleepless nights trying to re-do the math of his family’s monthly expenses....
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