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Zimbabwe rivals sign power-sharing deal
HARARE, Sept 15: Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe signed a power-sharing agreement with opposition rival Morgan Tsvangirai on Monday, relinquishing some of his powers for the first time in nearly three decades of iron rule.... 
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Most serious fiscal crisis since Depression: Obama
NEW YORK, Sept 15: The candidates of two major political parties weighed in on Wall Street’s turmoil on Monday with Senator Barack Obama calling the situation on Wall Street “the most...
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Stampede in Indonesia leaves 21 women dead
JAKARTA, Sept 15: Twenty-one people were killed in a stampede in Indonesia on Monday as they crowded an alley to receive a cash handout for Ramazan, police said....
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12 killed in Egypt coach crash
CAIRO, Sept 15: Twelve people, including six foreign tourists, were killed when a coach full of day trippers hit a truck head-on along the west coast of Sinai on Monday, a security official said....
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Tehran holds war games to test defences
TEHRAN, Sept 15: Iran staged air defence exercises on Monday and said anyone attacking the Islamic Republic would regret it, Iranian news agencies reported....
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Nato reluctant to invite Georgia to join alliance
TBILISI, Sept 15: Nato Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer condemned Russia’s military action against Georgia but shied away from making any commitment to the ex-Soviet state on when it will be invited to join the military alliance....
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Lankan forces push deep into LTTE territory
COLOMBO, Sept 15: Sri Lankan soldiers pushed into rebel-held territory in the embattled northern region Monday after a battle that killed 18 Tamil rebels and three soldiers, the military said....
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12 Mauritanian soldiers killed in ambush
NOUAKCHOTT (Mauritania), Sept 15: Suspected Al Qaeda militants killed 12 Mauritanian soldiers on Monday, two senior officials said. The attack, which came after the terror group promised to avenge the country’s...
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Lehman fall stirs fears across the pond
LONDON: People from the restaurant to the cab trade prepared for the worse on Monday as the ripples of US banking giant Lehman Brothers bankruptcy were felt across the Atlantic....
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Western firm’s site attacked in Nigeria
PORT HARCOURT (Nigeria), Sept 15: Nigerian militants on Monday attacked a Shell-operated oil installation, forcing the evacuation of nearly 100 people, in a third day of heavy fighting with security forces in the Niger Delta region....
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Thousands flee heavy fighting in Darfur
KHARTOUM, Sept 15: Thousands of villagers have been forced to flee their homes after more than a week of heavy clashes between Sudanese forces and rebels in North Darfur, aid sources said on Monday....
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British PM moves to quell challenge
LONDON, Sept 15: British Prime Minister Gordon moved on Sunday to stamp out the biggest threat yet to his 15-month-old premiership, sacking a Labour official who accused him of “timorous” political manoeuvring....
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Maoist PM invites Indian investors to Nepal
NEW DELHI, Sept 15: Nepalese Prime Minister Pushp Kamal Dahal Prachanda shed a bit of his forbidding Maoist reputation here on Monday inviting Indian investors and extolling the virtues of private capital....
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Russia probes ‘mysterious’ Aeroflot jet crash
PERM (Russia), Sept 15: Russian investigators on Monday sifted through the wreckage of an Aeroflot jet that crashed in the Ural mountains killing all 88 people on board, as the region marked a day of mourning....
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Nigerian court detains preacher with 86 wives
ABUJA, Sept 15: A Nigerian court on Monday detained an 84-year-old Muslim preacher with 86 wives after he failed to heed a call by local leaders to divorce all but four of them....
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Gates in Iraq to transfer war command
BAGHDAD, Sept 15: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates flew into Baghdad on Monday, preparing to hand command of the war in Iraq to a new general charged with maintaining better security while US troop numbers fall....
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France’s latest hit novel
The French newspaper Le Figaro has described this book as ‘the publishing phenomenon of the decade’. Elsewhere, there were comparisons to Proust. It sold more than a million copies in France last year and has won numerous awards....
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Is last-minute swing by white voters possible?
RICHMOND, Virginia: Doug Wilder, 77, still meets people who wanted to vote for him when he stood for governor of Virginia back in 1989 but found they just could not do it....
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Brazil evangelicals seek gangsters’ lost souls
RIO DE JANEIRO: When Antonio Soares da Silva was still in the womb, a spirit-worshipper looked into his future and saw a drug dealer. His mother saw a man of God....
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Malaysia’s unloved new capital begins to show the cracks
PUTRAJAYA: On a hillside overlooking the grandiose administrative capital that Malaysia has built at vast expense, vacant lots marked with the names of dozens of countries lie empty....
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