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Palestinians reject partial peace accord
JERUSALEM, Aug 31: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejected Israel’s idea of an interim peace agreement at a Sunday summit, a Palestinian negotiator said, insisting on an all-or-nothing approach that virtually ruled out an accord by a January target date.... 
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Brown warns of Russian ‘energy stranglehold’
LONDON, Aug 31: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned that Russia must not be allowed to subject Europe to an “energy stranglehold” and said Nato should review relations with Moscow in the light of its actions in Georgia....
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Plan set to tackle global cancer crisis
GENEVA, Aug 31: Cancer specialists set a plan on Sunday to stem the rise in deaths from cancer by 2020 and ensure that all patients suffering in the late stages of the disease can access painkillers....
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UK ‘diplomat’ urged Nazi peace deal
LONDON, Aug 31: An amateur British “diplomat” tried to strike a peace deal with Germany just months after World War Two began, proposing the Nazis be given a free hand in Europe if they agreed to leave Britain’s colonial empire untouched....
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Russian newsman killed
NAZRAN (Russia), Aug 31: The owner of an opposition internet news site in Russia’s troubled Ingushetia region was shot dead on Sunday after being detained by police, prompting his colleagues to call for a protest rally....
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Russia to sign deals with Georgia regions
MOSCOW, Aug 31: President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday that Russia will provide military aid to Georgia’s breakaway provinces and warned that US domination of world affairs was not acceptable....
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Over 150,000 march in Mexico against crime
MEXICO CITY, Aug 31: More than 150,000 Mexicans dressed in white marched on Saturday to protest a wave of kidnappings and gruesome murders, putting pressure on President Felipe Calderon to meet his promises to crack down on crime....
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Mao’s chosen successor cremated
BEIJING, Aug 31: China cremated on Sunday the man handpicked by a dying Mao Zedong to succeed him as Communist Party chairman, Hua Guofeng, marking the passing of one of the...
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20,000 marooned in Bangladesh floods
DHAKA, Aug 31: At least 20,000 people in northern Bangladesh have been cut off from the rest of the country after several rivers burst their banks, news reports said on Sunday...
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Maldives Minister resigns
MALE, Aug 31: The environment minister of the Maldives quit on Sunday, becoming the 12th cabinet member to resign this year ahead of historic elections due in the Indian Ocean archipelago nation....
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New Orleans braces for chaos as Gustav looms
LONDON: Thousands of people are scrambling to evacuate New Orleans this weekend as the city braces for its worst hurricane since Katrina struck with devastating force three years ago....
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Is the new world order finally buried?
LONDON: When the 27 EU government heads sit down on September 1 around the conference table in the glass-fronted Justus Lipsius building on Brussels’ Rue de la Loi, the significance will not be lost on any of those present....
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McCain’s campaign is in danger of fracturing
WASHNGTON: Before their Denver extravaganza last week, Democrats feared their nominating convention might dissolve into a gruesome riot of intramural conflict. The primary season wounds between the Clinton and Obama camps...
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Journey of genes
LONDON: Sixty thousand years ago, a small group of African men and women took to the Red Sea in tiny boats and crossed the Mandab Strait to Asia....
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