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McCain’s lead in poll sharpens campaign
KANSAS CITY (Missouri), Sept 8: The US presidential campaign moved into high gear on Monday as two opinion polls showed Republican John McCain taking the lead over Democratic rival Barack Obama just eight weeks from election day.... 
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Hamas releases 12 Fatah prisoners in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Sept 8: The Hamas-run government in the besieged Gaza Strip released 12 members of Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah party on Monday, an independent human rights group said....
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Kuwait MPs urge measures to stop abuses of foreign labour
KUWAIT CITY, Sept 8: The Kuwaiti parliament’s human rights committee called on Monday for a review of the sponsorship system to help stop employers from abusing hundreds of thousands of foreign labourers....
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US freezes N-pact with Russia
WASHINGTON, Sept 8: President George Bush on Monday froze a lucrative civilian nuclear pact with Russia, the first big penalty imposed on Moscow after its war with Georgia but one that can be reversed....
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Iran N-reactor launch irreversible by February: Russia
MOSCOW, Sept 8: The start-up of the first reactor at Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant will be “irreversible” by February next year, a senior Russian nuclear official was quoted by ITAR-TASS news agency as saying on Monday....
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Russia agrees to new Georgia pullout: Support to rebel regions reaffirmed
BARVIKHA (Russia), Sept 8: Russia agreed on Monday to withdraw all troops from Georgia within a month but reaffirmed its support for the independence of two rebel regions where Russian forces will remain....
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US hands over Taliban stronghold to Afghans
KABUL Sept 8: US Marines handed over control of a former Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan to the Afghan army and their British mentors on Monday after killing more than 400 militants in a four-month operation, the Nato-led force said....
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Thackeray’s call to boycott Bachchans
MUMBAI, Sept 8: A prominent Indian politician has called upon people in the western state of Maharashtra to boycott actor Amitabh Bachchan and his family, accusing them of disloyalty to the region....
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Churches reopen after deadly riots in eastern India
NEW DELHI, Sept 8: A national body of bishops on Monday said churches held services in India’s Orissa state for the first time since anti-Christian riots swept the region last month....
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26 die in China mudslide
BEIJING, Sept 8: A mud and rock slide triggered by heavy rains killed 26 people on Monday in northern China....
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North Korea vows to crush enemy attacks
SEOUL, Sept 8: North Korea on Monday marked its upcoming 60th anniversary with a threat to “mercilessly punish” any US attack, as international efforts to end Pyongyang’s nuclear drive remained stalled....
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Ancient Buddha found in Afghanistan
KABUL, Sept 8: An Afghan archaeologist has discovered the remains of an ancient 19-metre-long “sleeping Buddha” in central Afghanistan’s Bamiyan a government official said on Monday....
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Ingushetia blames US for instability
MOSCOW, Sept 8: The head of the Russian region of Ingushetia, facing protests over the killing of an opposition leader, accused Washington on Monday of stirring trouble with the aim of ending Russian rule in the volatile north Caucasus....
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Hurricane Ike batters Cuba, threatens Gulf of Mexico
HAVANA, Sept 8: Hurricane Ike raged through Cuba on Monday, blowing off roofs, toppling trees and flattening sugar cane fields like a giant lawn mower on a path toward US oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico....
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Active video games burn calories, boost heart rate: study
NEW YORK, Sept 8: Kids who play the latest physically challenging video games expend energy at levels that might help protect them from becoming overweight and boost their heart health at the same time, according to a new study....
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Civilian deaths fuelling backlash: HRW
NEW YORK, Sept 8: The Human Rights Attach said in a report on Monday that “civilian deaths in Afghanistan from US and Nato airstrikes nearly tripled from 2006 to 2007, with...
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US, Vietnam hold Agent Orange talks
HANOI, Sept 8: Vietnam and the United States on Monday launched a third round of talks aimed at figuring out how to limit the environmental impact of Agent Orange, the toxic defoliant used during the Vietnam war....
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Overcrowding, abuse in Iraq’s juvenile prisons
BAGHDAD: Hundreds of children, some as young as nine, are being held in appalling conditions in Baghdad’s prisons, sleeping in sweltering temperatures in overcrowded cells without working fans, no daily access...
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Melting Swiss glacier yields Neolithic trove, climate secrets
BERN: Some 5,000 years ago a prehistoric person trod high up in what is now the Swiss Alps, wearing goat leather pants, leather shoes and armed with a bow and arrows....
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Allies become foes in constitutional debate
SUCRE, Bolivia: Renowned as the cradle of Bolivian independence, this colonial town in the south-central highlands has become a front line in a new battle that is threatening to rip this South American nation asunder....
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Industry expands services as families opt for cremation
Neighbours in Stafford County, Va, Kurt Zimmerman and Lawrence Mervine got to musing about death one day. Mervine had read that people could have their cremated remains placed in an underwater reef if they wanted....
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