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Philippine govt scraps peace panel on Muslim rebels
MANILA, Sept 3: Philippine President Gloria Arroyo scrapped on Wednesday a government peace panel seeking to end a deadly and drawn-out Muslim rebellion in the south, officials said, in a major shift in policy.... 
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America interested in Russia’s backyard: Cheney
BAKU, Sept 3: The United States and Russia squared off over the Caucasus and Central Asia on Wednesday as US Vice-President Dick Cheney said Washington had an “abiding” interest in vital regions once dominated by Moscow....
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Sarkozy comes to Syria to boost ME peace process
DAMASCUS, Sept 3: French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived on Wednesday on his first visit to Damascus, meant to explore prospects for direct peace between the Arab country and Israel....
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59 die as rebels try to stop Lanka army push
COLOMBO, Sept 3: Battles between Sri Lanka’s military and separatist Tamil Tiger guerillas killed at least 57 people when the rebels counterattacked against an army thrust into their strongholds, the military said on Wednesday....
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US women voters turned off by Palin’s pick: poll
ST PAUL (Minnesota), Sept 3: Women voters remain un-swayed by the Republican choice of anti-abortion, devout Christian Sarah Palin for vice president, according to a new poll released on Wednesday.White...
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Iraq to reopen Abu Ghraib prison
BAGHDAD, Sept 3: Iraq plans to renovate and reopen Abu Ghraib prison, the notorious site of executions and torture under Saddam Hussein and later of a US prisoner abuse scandal....
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Afghan pullout debate dangerous: Germany
KABUL, Sept 3: The German defence minister said in Kabul on Wednesday that calls in Germany for troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan because of recent attacks would only heighten risks for the soldiers....
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Kuwait parliament to debate labour unrest
KUWAIT CITY, Sept 3: Kuwait''s parliament is to hold an emergency session on Sept 10 to debate violent protests by foreign workers over pay and living conditions, speaker Jassem al-Khorafi said on Wednesday....
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Hamas moves to break strike by doctors
GAZA CITY, Sept 3: Hamas police dragged doctors back to work and closed private clinics on Wednesday in a bid to break a medical strike that has nearly brought the Gaza Strip’s fragile health sector to a halt....
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20 killed in South African bush fires
CAPE TOWN, Sept 3: The death toll from bush fires in South Africa''s KwaZulu-Natal province has risen to 20, an official said on Wednesday....
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Pirates seize French yacht off Somali coast
MOGADISHU, Sept 3: Pirates seized a French sailing yacht off the dangerous northern coast of Somalia, where hijackings of vessels has increased in recent months, officials said on Wednesday....
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Suu Kyi rejects meeting junta’s liaison officer
YANGON, Sept 3: Myanmar''s detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has refused to meet the junta''s liaison officer and declined a visit from her personal physician, state media said on Wednesday....
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UN deminer killed in Lebanon
MARJAYOUN (Lebanon), Sept 3: A Belgian sapper with the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon was killed on Wednesday while clearing unexploded ordnance from Israel’s 2006 war with Hezbollah, UN and Belgian officials said....
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Ukrainian president threatens to call snap poll
KIEV, Sept 3: Ukraine''s President Viktor Yushchenko threatened on Wednesday to call a snap parliamentary poll, saying the coalition government had collapsed....
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Israel says serious on ‘any option’ to curb Iran
AL QUDS, Sept 3: Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday there was still time for diplomacy to curb Iran''s nuclear programme but that Israel was serious about using “any option” if that failed....
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India court seeks report on anti-Christian violence
NEW DELHI, Sept 3: India''s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered eastern Orissa state to report on steps taken to stop a wave of anti-Christian rioting that has claimed at least 16 lives, a court official said....
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Christians cower from Hindu backlash in eastern India
TIKABALI (India): On a starry night last week, as Lal Mohan Digal prepared to go to bed, a mob of raging, machete-wielding Hindu zealots appeared above the hills of his mud house and swarmed over this bucolic hamlet in eastern India....
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Govt willing to resettle fleeing Tamils
COLOMBO: A Sri Lankan minister has assured Tamils intending to leave areas held by the Tamil Tigers that the government would do its best to resettle them in other regions....
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Afghan turbine offers hope, hurdles
KAJAKI (Afghanistan): British forces may be thrilled that they have managed to deliver a 200-tonne turbine to a remote dam in the heart of Taliban territory, but the real challenges of the project lie ahead....
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Dalits cry foul over bias in flood relief
DELHI: Dalits, the ‘untouchables’ at the bottom of the Hindu caste system, are the last to be rescued and are getting the smallest rations in the aftermath of the floods in north India, claim aid agencies working in the inundated villages....
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Khaleda’s son freed on bail
DHAKA: The elder son and political heir of detained former prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia, was released from a prison hospital on Wednesday pending his trial on corruption charges....
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Let’s groom teachers of tomorrow
Tomorrow, we will be celebrating Teachers’ Day — on the birthday of our great teacher-president, Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. But our ritualistic honouring of the great profession of educators will do nothing...
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