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Russian troops withdraw from Georgian port region
POTI (Georgia), Sept 13: Russian troops withdrew from the region around Georgia’s Black Sea port of Poti on Saturday, within a Sept 15 deadline set for the first phase of a pullback brokered by France.... 
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Bolivia imposes martial law in troubled region
LA PAZ/SANTA CRUZ (Bolivia), Sept 13: Bolivia’s leftist government declared martial law on Friday in a remote Amazon region where at least 15 people were killed in a wave of political violence sweeping the impoverished country....
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LTTE complex bombed
COLOMBO, Sept 13: Sri Lanka’s air force bombed a well-fortified Tamil Tiger rebel compound in their northern stronghold on Saturday, while a rebel ambush killed a policeman in the east, the military said....
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India tests missile
BHUBANESWAR (India), Sept 13: India on Saturday carried out a successful test of a homemade air-to-air missile designed for its air force, defence sources said....
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Suu Kyi meets lawyer amid health worries
YANGON, Sept 13: Myanmar’s detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi met with her lawyer on Saturday, witnesses said, amid worries for her health after her party said she was not accepting food....
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‘Russia obstructs energy plans’
PIESTANY (Slovakia), Sept 13: Russia’s military intervention in Georgia was aimed at obstructing Europe’s efforts to cut its reliance on Russian energy resources and diversify its supplies, Poland’s president said on Saturday....
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17 killed as two trains collide in Los Angeles
SAN FERNANDO VALLEY (Los Angeles), Sept 13: Emergency crews found more victims early Saturday, boosting the death toll to 17, as they delicately picked apart the mangled wreckage of a commuter...
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Pre-trial hearing for US soldier held
CAMP SPEICHER (Iraq), Sept 13: A pre-trial hearing was held on Saturday for a US soldier charged with murdering an Iraqi detainee by shooting him and then burning him with an...
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51 die in China accident
BEIJING, Sept 13: A bus careered off a road in mountainous southwest China and plunged into a valley on Saturday, killing all 51 people known to be aboard, state media reported, citing local officials....
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Cyprus still haunted by ghosts of conflicts past
NEO KHORIO KYTHREAS: A pneumatic drill pierces the calm of a Cypriot village as a forensic team searches the backyard of a home for the remains of a father and son missing since the Turkish invasion of 1974....
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UK Labour too scared to learn from Obama
Returning to the UK this week from covering the American conventions, I was struck above all by one thing concerning the UK’s governing Labour administration’s political mood: the party’s sheer pessimism,...
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Rising costs consume profits of HK mooncake makers
HONG KONG: Soaring food costs have eaten into the profits of mooncake makers ahead of this year’s Mid-Autumn Festival, offsetting a renewed appetite for the distinctively Chinese sweetmeat....
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Broccoli good in fight against chest problems
NEW YORK: People who suffer from the chronic breathing disorder known as COPD may benefit from a second helping of broccoli at dinner, research published today suggests....
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Janice Galloway on Scotland, ferocious sister and frustrated mother
EDINBURGH: On my way to meet Janice Galloway, I am racked by nerves. It’s not just that she is one of the UK’s finest fiction writers – though she is....
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