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US transfers control of Anbar to Iraqis
RAMADI, Sept 1: Iraqi forces on Monday took control of the Sunni Anbar province, once the most explosive battlefield in Iraq, from the US military, symbolising the growing security gains in the war-torn country.... 
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Russia warns West against supporting Georgia
MOSCOW, Sept 1: Russia warned the West on Monday against supporting Georgia’s leadership and called for an arms embargo against the ex-Soviet republic until a different government is in place....
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Chavez threatens to expel US envoy
CARACAS, Sept 1: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened to expel the US ambassador in a dispute over drug trafficking that could worsen already frayed ties between the South American nation and its biggest oil customer....
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Philippines bus blast claims six lives
MANILA, Sept 1: A powerful bomb packed with steel nails exploded on a passenger bus at a public terminal in the southern Philippines on Monday, killing at least six people and...
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Lankan army advancing on LTTE base: Fighting leaves 84 dead
COLOMBO, Sept 1: Sri Lankan jets and helicopters blasted Tamil Tiger rebel positions on Monday after three days of combat killed at least 84 people, part of a military offensive towards the separatists’ de facto capital....
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India struggles to cope with flood catastrophe
MADHEPURA, Sept 1: India battled on Monday to reach at least half a million people stranded by floods without food or potable water, as the military poured fresh troops into the country’s devastated north....
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Japan PM resigns in surprise move
TOKYO, Sept 1: Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda announced his sudden resignation on Monday, saying the country needed a fresh start after a troubled year in office marred by bitter fighting with the opposition....
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Israel, Syria to resume indirect peace talks
JERUSALEM, Sept 1: Israel and Syria will soon resume indirect peace talks with Turkish mediation, Israeli public radio reported on Monday....
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Hearing of confessions in BD
DHAKA, Sept 1: Bangladesh’s accountability body on Monday started hearing confessions from people seeking clemency after forfeiting ill-gotten property or money....
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China plans to beat own fastest train service record
BEIJING, Sept 1: China plans to beat its own record for the world’s fastest train service when a new link between Beijing and Shanghai opens by 2012, a state newspaper reported on Monday....
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Qadhafi hails full US ties after 39 years in power
BENGHAZI (Libya) Sept 1: Libyan leader Moamer Qadhafi said his regime’s long estrangement from the United States was finally over as he marked the 39th anniversary on Monday of his overthrow of the Western-backed monarchy....
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Tbilisi used cluster bombs: HRW
GENEVA, Sept 1: Georgia has admitted to using cluster bombs during the South Ossetia conflict, said Human Rights Watch on Monday, after having earlier accused Moscow of using the same weapons....
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Palin’s revelation stuns Republicans: Unmarried daughter’s pregnancy
ST PAUL (Minnesota), Sept 1: Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin revealed on Monday that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is pregnant, in the latest bombshell to rock the Hurricane Gustav-curtailed Republican convention....
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Ethnic cleansing in South Ossetia
AFTER three weeks in Georgia reporting on the war and its aftermath, I find one conversation sticks with me. I had arrived in Karaleti, a Georgian village north of Gori....
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EU and Georgia: awkward partners
TBILISI: Of all the countries that emerged from the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, Georgia has followed the most chaotic path – a long, lurching march of high expectations and...
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Omega-3 may help heart patients
A single omega-3 fish oil capsule taken daily could help keep some people with heart failure out of hospital, a study released recently revealed....
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Election boosts Angola’s rise as African power
LUANDA: Angola’s parliamentary election on Friday will mark another big step in the oil-rich state’s emergence from decades of civil war to become one of Africa’s most important powers....
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Fuzzy science confounds storm predictions
Meteorologists are predicting a more active hurricane season than usual this year, but there is no way to know whether global warming has caused an individual event such as a hurricane, or whether it has made such storms worse....
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Rendezvous with Keira Knightley
LONDON: Maybe it’s because we normally see her in pretty dresses and bonnets, speaking so exquisitely crisply, that it feels strange, paradoxical even, to be sworn at by Keira Knightley....
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