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Israel should quit nearly all occupied land: Olmert
JERUSALEM, Sept 29: Israel should withdraw from nearly all territory captured in the 1967 Middle East war in return for peace with the Palestinians and Syria, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted on Monday as telling a newspaper.... 
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Opposition fails to win any seat in Belarus poll
MINSK, Sept 29: Opposition candidates in Belarus did not win a single parliamentary seat in a weekend election that President Alexander Lukashenko has said he hopes will promote better relations with the West....
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Australians still hold racist views: study
CANBERRA, Sept 29: Australia is a migrant nation, but one-in-10 citizens are “racial supremacists” despite racism generally waning, says a 10-year study....
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BD court rejects bail for Hasina
DHAKA, Sept 29: Hopes of former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina returning home to take the reins of her party ahead of a December election suffered a blow on Monday when the High Court rejected a bail petition....
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Five killed in bomb attack on Lebanese army
TRIPOLI, Sept 29: A car bomb killed four soldiers on an army bus and a civilian passer-by in northern Lebanon on Monday, in the second attack on the army in less than two months, security sources said....
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US Navy surrounds ship seized by Somali pirates
MOGADISHU, Sept 29: US Navy ships on Monday surrounded a ship seized by Somali pirates carrying tanks and other weapons for which they have demanded a 20 million dollar ransom, officials said....
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Hekmatyar claims responsibility for killing of French troops
KABUL, Sept 29: Afghan resistance leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has claimed responsibility in a video message for an August ambush that killed 10 French soldiers, an Afghan news agency reported on Monday, saying it had seen the footage....
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Gates calls for balanced US military to fight ‘rogue’ states
WASHINGTON, Sep 29: Defeating the enemies of tomorrow from rogue nations to terror networks will require a balanced and nimble US military that can coax or confound an adversary as well...
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India to buy 347 Russian T-90 tanks
NEW DELHI: India confirmed on Monday it will purchase 347 T-90 battle tanks from Russia and said it will consider a demand from Moscow that it pay an additional US$1.2...
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Blast kills four Indian soldiers
RAIPUR (India): Four paramilitary soldiers were killed on Monday in an attack in the insurgency-racked central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, police said, ahead of a visit by the country’s president....
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Lack of funds threatens IAEA, says ElBaradei
VIENNA, Sept 29: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief urged 145 member states on Monday to get to grips with an IAEA funding crisis undermining its ability to prevent nuclear proliferation threats....
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Institute set up to prevent nuclear theft, terrorism
VIENNA, Sept 29: A new organisation was unveiled here on Monday aimed at promoting nuclear security around the globe so as to prevent terrorists from getting the bomb....
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Fire injures four in UK children’s hospital
LONDON: A fire broke out early on Monday in one of Britain’s biggest children’s hospitals, injuring four firefighters and forcing the hospital’s cardiac wing to evacuate....
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52 Somali migrants die off Yemen coast
SANAA: Fifty-two Somalis died off the coast of Yemen after the ship smuggling them broke down and they were left adrift for 18 days without food or water, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said on Sunday....
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Indonesia poll to pit president against predecessor
JAKARTA: For most of his four years in power, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a respected reformer, looked like a shoo-in for re-election, comfortably ahead of his rival, former president Megawati Sukarnoputri....
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Golan brides know there is no going back
QUNEITRA (Golan Heights): Arina Safadi, wearing a sumptuous white wedding dress, walked past barbed wire in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights so she could join her future husband on the Syrian side....
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MI6 seeks intelligence recruits on Facebook
LONDON: MI6 is using the social networking site Facebook to recruit the next generation of spies....
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Captain Siddiqui: ‘master’ of Somalia’s changing waters
ON BOARD THE GOLINA (Indian Ocean): Seventeen years of bloodshed and destruction, capped by the emergence of religious extremism, have earned Somalia’s capital Mogadishu the dubious moniker of “Baghdad by the sea”....
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Canadian Liberals ‘in big trouble’
OTTAWA: The once dominant Liberal Party, which has ruled Canada longer than any other, is now in such trouble that it faces both a big defeat in the Oct 14 election and questions about its long-term future....
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The camera never lies, but photographers can
LONDON: Federico Borrell Garcia, a young Republican militiaman in the Spanish civil war, died, it now seems certain, on September 5, 1936, shot by Francoist rebels on a hillside in Cerro Muriano near Cordoba....
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