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Mugabe to keep major powers under deal
HARARE, Sept 12: President Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai have agreed to share power in a deal to end Zimbabwe’s political crisis.... 
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No Indian court has jurisdiction over S. Lanka, says minister
COLOMBO, Sept 12: Sri Lanka has said that Indian courts have no jurisdiction over it, and that it is not bound by any ruling that the Indian Supreme Court may give on Kachchativu in the case filed by J....
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Travel chaos in UK after tunnel closure
LONDON, Sept 12: Britain was plunged into travel turmoil on Friday as the country’s third largest tour operator went bust at the same time as the Channel Tunnel remained closed due to a fire....
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1,500 troops mobilised for Ike
WASHINGTON, Sept 12: Some 1,500 US troops were prepared to respond on Friday as Hurricane Ike roared toward Texas, sending US military aircraft scattering to the protection of inland bases, the Pentagon said....
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Case against ANC chief thrown out
PIETERMARITZBURG (South Africa), Sept 12: A South African court on Friday threw out a corruption case against ruling ANC party chief Jacob Zuma, opening the way for him to become the country’s president next year....
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Gandhi’s toilet recreated
MUMBAI, Sept 12: A museum at a former home of Mahatma Gandhi has a new exhibit — a replica of the specially-built mobile lavatory used by the father of Indian independence....
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Palin fumbles on foreign policy
FORT WAINWRIGHT (USA), Sept 12: John McCain running mate Sarah Palin sought on Thursday to defend her qualifications but struggled with foreign policy, unable to describe President George W....
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Horrors of war our leaders never have to confront
Just outside Andrew Holden’s office at the Christchurch Press off Cathedral Square — and, believe me, New Zealand’s prettiest city is as colonial as they come, a Potemkin town of mock-Tudor...
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Female suicide bombers: victims or villains?
BAGHDAD: A 15-year-old girl walks up to an Iraqi police checkpoint on her way to the crowded central market in Baquba, a town some 40 miles north of Baghdad....
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Logging in Mexico threatens butterflies
MEXICO CITY: The traditional wintering site for tens of millions of monarch butterflies in central Mexico is under continuing threat after conservationists failed to halt the onslaught of illegal logging in the area....
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S. Africa’s cartoonist draws himself into a corner
JOHANNESBURG: Zapiro, as one of South Africa’s most controversial cartoonists calls, is a liberal pro-Palestinian Jew who was detained under apartheid for drawing the security police of the minority white regime as gun-toting pigs....
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Widow of Albania’s Hoxha defends his legacy
TIRANA: The widow of Albania’s longtime Stalinist leader said some things had improved since the collapse of Communism, but defended Enver Hoxha’s tough legacy as she prepared to honour the centenary of his birth....
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