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UNGA chief accuses powerful members of addiction to war
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 17: The new president of UN General Assembly opened the 63rd annual session on Tuesday by accusing some of the world body’s most powerful members of serious breaches of the peace and threats to international peace and security.... 
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Four soldiers killed in Afghan bombing
KABUL, Sept 17: Four soldiers serving in the US-led coalition in Afghanistan were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb on Wednesday in the east of the country, the force said....
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Russia seals military, economic ties with Abkhazia, S. Ossetia: Washington asks Moscow to respect Georgia’s sovereignty
MOSCOW, Sept 17: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday signed agreements formalising military and economic ties with two rebel regions in Georgia despite anger from Tbilisi and its US-led Western allies....
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Rising prices tip another 75m to starvation: FAO
ROME, Sept 17: Global numbers afflicted by acute hunger rose from 850 million to 925 million by the start of this year because of rising prices, the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Wednesday....
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Nigeria militants threaten broader oil war
PORT HARCOURT (Nigeria), Sept 17: Nigerian militants threatened on Wednesday to broaden their “oil war” to offshore oilfields, after attacking another Shell-operated oil flow station in the Niger Delta....
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Escalating Lankan violence forces aid agencies to flee
COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan military’s attempt to destroy the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and their leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran came a step closer on Wednesday when air force jets bombed...
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Spanish man swindles banks to fund magazine
MADRID, Sept 17: A man in Spain swindled nearly half a million euros (710,000 dollars) from dozens of banks to fund an anti-globalisation magazine distributed for free in Barcelona, a newspaper reported....
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Main attacks in Yemen since 2000
SANAA, Sept 17: Militants attacked the US embassy in the Yemeni capital Sanaa with a car bomb and rockets on Wednesday. Following are the main attacks on foreign targets in Yemen...
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Small bomb hits Toyota plant
TOKYO, Sept 17: A small bomb went off in a factory in Japan belonging to Toyota Motor Corporation after a string of threatening telephone calls, police and the automaker said on Wednesday.The...
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Ship hijacked off Yemen
NEW DELHI, Sept 17: A ship with 22 crew members making its way from the Suez canal to Mumbai was hijacked on Tuesday off the coast of Yemen and is being taken to Somalia, the Indian Coast Guard said on Wednesday....
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New poll a blow for British PM
LONDON, Sept 17: Embattled British Prime Minister Gordon Brown suffered a new poll blow on Wednesday as a survey suggested the main opposition Conservatives are at their most popular since the era of Margaret Thatcher....
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Hillary avoids appearance at rally against Ahmadinejad
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 17: US Senator Hillary Clinton cancelled her appearance at a demonstration against the president of Iran after learning Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will be there, an aide said on Wednesday....
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France’s First Lady sings live on BBC
LONDON, Sept 17: Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has shared the world stage with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II, Pope Benedict XVI and the Dalai Lama....
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Zimbabwe turns guns on France at UN HR panel
GENEVA, Sept 17: Zimbabwe on Wednesday launched a fierce attack against France at the UN Human Rights Council, saying its actions in Rwanda and Corsica should stop it criticising any other state’s rights record....
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Al Jazeera airs video of abducted journalists
CAIRO, Sept 17: Al-Jazeera TV network has aired a short video clip showing two journalists, a Canadian and an Australian, who have been abducted and held hostage by Somali extremists for nearly a month....
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Livni wins vote to replace Olmert
TEL AVIV, Sept 17: Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni won a decisive victory on Wednesday in an unprecedented Kadima party vote to replace Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, according to exit polls....
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Bolivia govt, opposition agree to hold talks
LA PAZ, Sept 17: President Evo Morales and Bolivia’s opposition governors were set on Wednesday to start negotiating an end to a violent political crisis that has left at least 18 people dead....
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China toxic milk affects 6,000 babies
BEIJING, Sept 17: China said on Wednesday a third infant had died after drinking contaminated milk and the number of the sick had leapt to many thousands, while an official said the health threat was concealed for at least a month....
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Darfur rebels, govt locked in heavy fighting
KHARTOUM, Sept 17: Darfur rebels on Wednesday accused the Sudanese government of launching heavy attacks in north Darfur, the latest in a series of violence in Sudan’s war-torn western region....
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Double trouble for Nepal’s tigers
CONSERVATIONISTS in Nepal say efforts to save the nation’s dwindling tiger population are facing a twin attack....
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Mt Everest lessened by extreme stunts
LONDON: Now look, my purpose is not to mock Steve Colligan, an “extreme unicyclist” from Salford, north-west England, who later this month sets off to ride a unicycle across the Tibetan plateau from Lhasa to Kathmandu via Everest base camp....
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Maldives to hold first multi-party elections
MALE: The Maldives will hold its first-ever multi-party presidential poll on Oct 8, the Indian Ocean island nation’s electoral commission said....
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Bangladesh’s first surfer looks to create waves
COX’S BAZAR: With his fluorescent board shorts and muscular body, Jafar Alam does not look like a typical Bangladeshi....
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Indian anti-terror plan faces challenges
NEW DELHI: A spate of bombings in India has fuelled calls for stronger counter-terrorist measures, but duplicating US or British-style strategies is a tough task for such a vast, socially complex country....
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