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Bush plans to host summit on financial turmoil
CAMP DAVID, Oct 18: President George W. Bush will announce he plans to host a summit of world leaders in the near future to discuss the global response to the financial crisis, a senior administration official said on Saturday.... 
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US considering reviving space-based defence
WASHINGTON, Oct 18: The US Congress has approved $5 million for an independent study of possible space-based missile defences, a potential step toward a system once mocked as “Star Wars”....
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Washington refuses to release Uighurs
WASHINGTON, Oct 18: The Bush administration believes the 17 Chinese Muslim Uighurs detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp should not be released into the United States because they pose a...
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Singer Levi Stubbs dies
DETROIT, Oct 18: Levi Stubbs, lead singer of the Four Tops and one of the most recognizable voices of Motown soul in hits such as “Reach Out I’ll Be There,” has died in Detroit after a long illness....
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Mystery nation confuses Austria with Australia at UN
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 18: Austria narrowly won a coveted seat on the UN Security Council on Friday and diplomats said Vienna was lucky that only one country appeared to have confused the small Alpine nation with Australia....
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British princes in motorbike rally for charity
PORT EDWARD (South Africa), Oct 18: British princes William and Harry set off Saturday on a gruelling 1,610-kilometer motorcycle rally in South Africa to raise money for charity....
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Return of secret Sarkozy diaries sought
PARIS, Oct 18: A former head of French police intelligence demanded on Saturday the return of secret diaries that allegedly contain details about President Nicolas Sarkozy’s private life....
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Sri Lankan delegation to address Indian concerns
COLOMBO, Oct 18: The Sri Lankan government will send a high-powered delegation to New Delhi in an attempt to explain to Indian leaders Sri Lanka’s policy on war and peace, the...
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2 international jewel thieves arrested
PARIS, Oct 18: Monaco police have arrested two alleged members of an international gang of jewel thieves dubbed the “Pink Panthers” that is suspected of heists worth more than $134.7...
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Atom smasher
GENEVA, Oct 18: Damage to the world’s largest atom smasher caused by a bad electrical connection will take much of the planned winter shutdown to repair, but it will be back...
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From the fourth century BC, words our leaders should heed
Let us now praise famous men. And after yet another US presidential candidates’ debate of awesome sterility – not to mention their shameless refusal to tackle the real, bloody issues that...
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Russian army shaken by post-Georgia reform plan
MOSCOW: Russia is launching its most radical army reform in decades after its brief war in Georgia underlined the need for a more agile military than the one designed to fight the Cold War....
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Kosovo state inevitable, says Nobel laureate
Martti Ahtisaari, the former Finnish president awarded the Nobel peace prize for his mediation in Kosovo and a string of other conflicts around the world, said on Friday that Serbia would have no option but to accept the new Balkan state....
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TV debates rarely swing US elections
LONDON: Too much media coverage of the American election for you? It wasn’t always this way. Sometimes the complaints went in the opposite direction. Doing some homework for a speech to...
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Burundi’s albinos flee sorcerers and organ traders
RUYIGI (Burundi): When Richard Ciza was alerted by neighbours last week that a posse was looking for him, he ran and hid for two days in the forest of eastern Burundi....
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