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US sends advanced radar to Israel
JERUSALEM, Sept 28: The US has provided Israel with an advanced radar system that will give it early warning in case of an Iranian missile attack, Israeli defence officials said on... 
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Baghdad blasts claim 29 lives
BAGHDAD, Sept 28: At least 29 people were killed in a spate of bombings in Baghdad on Sunday, including three attacks which struck as Iraqis marked the end of the daily Ramadan fast, security officials said....
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UAE visa renewal backlog hits thousands
DUBAI, Sept 28: Thousands of people, mostly Filipinos, are awaiting renewal of their visas for the United Arab Emirates on the Iranian island of Kish or the Omani town of Buraimi, Dubai newspapers reported on Sunday....
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Egypt editor jailed over Mubarak health rumours
CAIRO, Sept 28: An appeals court on Sunday ordered outspoken Egyptian editor Ibrahim Eissa to be jailed for two months for writing rumours about President Hosni Mubarak’s health, a judicial source said....
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US troops to hand over control of Babil
HILLA (Iraq), Sept 28: Iraqi security forces will take control of the province of Babil within a month, the provincial governor said on Sunday, but warned that armed groups still roam the region....
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Iran atomic agency chief cancels trip to IAEA meeting
TEHRAN, Sept 28: The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organisation Gholamreza Aghazadeh will not take part in the UN nuclear watchdog’s annual assembly opening on Monday, the ISNA news agency reported on Sunday....
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Israel behind Syria blast: Arab press
AMMAN, Sept 28: Israel’s Mossad spy agency was behind a deadly car bomb attack in Damascus on Saturday which killed 17 people, according to a columnist in the Jordanian semi-official daily Al-Dustur....
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Korea’s ‘root of life’ has ever-growing fan club
GEUMSAN (South Korea): Hard training and dedication brought South Korean athletes a record 13 gold medals in this summer’s Beijing Olympics, but some may have had a secret weapon Korean ginseng....
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Paul Newman carved out a class of his own
HOLLYWOOD: Paul Newman, that pure and concentrated essence of classic movie stardom, reinvented himself a couple of times in the span of his long career, until he ended up playing the...
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$700bn won’t save US from a slump
NEW YORK: There is a simple reason why US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s $700bn bail-out package has been so hard to sell to politicians and the American people: it won’t really work....
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Why West thinks it is time to talk to Taliban
KABUL: For the past few months an incongruous figure has passed through the airports of the Middle East and Europe: a senior Afghan cleric who defected from the Taliban....
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