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Security Council weighs revised draft on Iran
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 27: The UN Security Council on Saturday weighed a revised draft resolution containing no new sanctions on Iran for its nuclear defiance and merely reaffirming existing ones.... 
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India, Japan call for UN reforms
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 27: India joined Japan on Friday in calling for more determined efforts to reform the United Nations as the two Asian powers pitched for permanent seats in the Security Council....
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Nine killed in clash at Mogadishu airport
MOGADISHU, Sept 27: Islamists fired mortars at Mogadishu airport on Saturday and government troops fired back, leaving nine people dead in the clash, an airport worker and residents said....
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Pirates demand $35m ransom for ship
NAIROBI, Sept 27: Somali pirates demanded a $35 million ransom on Saturday for a Ukrainian ship they had seized which was carrying 33 tanks and other military supplies to Kenya, a maritime official said....
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‘Taliban’ free remaining 30 hostages
HEART: Suspected Taliban militants freed on Saturday 30 Afghan labourers remaining from a group of around 150 kidnapped in western Afghanistan almost a week ago, a deputy provincial governor said....
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Turkish film wins top award in San Sebastian
SAN SEBASTIAN: Turkish director Yesim Ustaoglu’s “Pandora’s Box” Saturday won the Golden Shell award for best film at the San Sebastian film festival....
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Ukrainian ship sinks; 10 missing
SOFIA, Sept 27: A Ukrainian ship sank early on Saturday off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast in bad weather, and 10 crew members are still missing, the Bulgarian transport ministry said....
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Britain holds three on suspicion of terrorism
LONDON: Armed officers arrested three men in London on suspicion of terrorism offences on Saturday, British police said....
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Chinese farmer on trial for faking tiger photo
BEIJING: A farmer accused of faking a photo of an endangered South China tiger went on trial on Saturday in north China, state media reported....
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Personal records stolen from RAF base
LONDON: The personal records of thousands of current and former Royal Air Force staff have been stolen, the British defence ministry confirmed on Friday....
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Chinese woman jailed for smuggling US technology
LOS ANGELES: A Chinese woman was jailed for one year on Friday after pleading guilty to attempting to smuggle sensitive military-grade technology to her homeland, justice officials said....
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Pirates attack another Greek ship
KUALA LUMPUR: Another Greek chemical tanker with 19 crew on board has been hijacked by armed Somali pirates in the notorious Gulf of Aden, a maritime watchdog reported Saturday....
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Stonehenge dig that sees off the druids
Who-are-we questions are being answered as never before. Archaeologists excavating at Stonehenge, for the first time in half a century, are rewriting the map of British prehistory....
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Peru’s president dazzles, frustrates with rhetoric
LIMA: Whenever Peruvian comic Hernan Vidaurre gets in a jam on his improvised show of political satire, he uses a line about President Alan Garcia that always makes listeners laugh....
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Israel cashing in on caviar crisis, but is it kosher?
KIBBUTZ DAN, Israel: Thousands of kilometres from the Caspian Sea, Israel is cashing in on a global caviar crisis, gearing up to export tonnes of the delicate and costly roe from farm-raised sturgeon....
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A tale of two cinema worshippers
LONDON: Let us look for links between Jean-Luc Godard and Martin Scorsese. I can think of two off the cuff: that slow, unsettling tracking shot into a fizzing glass of Alka-Seltzer...
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