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Thousands of Muslims flee Lanka fighting
COLOMBO, Aug 4: Norway launched high-level talks on Friday in a bid to pull Sri Lanka back from all-out war as thousands of Muslims fled the bloodiest fighting in four years that has claimed nearly 170 lives.... 
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No changes to be made in N-deal: US assurance to India
KOLKATA, Aug 4: The United States assured India on Friday that the final legislation to approve a landmark nuclear pact would stick to a draft agreed by the two countries and not include any deal breakers....
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Israel exodus leaves old and poor to face rockets
KIRYAT SHMONA (Israel), Aug 4: As the rockets rain down on northern Israel, tens of thousands of terrified Israelis have fled to the south, leaving mainly the old, weak or those too poor to get out....
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Prosecutor terms US troops war criminals
TIKRIT, Aug 4: A military prosecutor branded four US soldiers who have been accused of murdering Iraqi prisoners ‘war criminals’ on Friday and demanded they face court martial....
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Bridge bombing paralyses Lebanon’s aid pipeline
BEIRUT, Aug 4: Israel’s bombing of key highway bridges in northern Lebanon and strikes at a Hezbollah stronghold in south Beirut paralysed United Nations aid convoys on Friday, but other aid continued to arrive by air and sea....
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Blair delays holiday to resolve ME crisis
LONDON, Aug 4: British Prime Minister Tony Blair delayed his summer holiday on Friday to work on a United Nations resolution to resolve the Middle East crisis, emphasising that the next two days were ‘crucial’....
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US slaps sanctions on Russian, Indian firms
WASHINGTON, Aug 4: The United States has imposed sanctions against seven companies from North Korea, Russia, India and Cuba for their alleged arms dealings with Iran, a State Department official said on Friday....
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Plan ready to defeat terrorism, says Karzai
KABUL, Aug 4: Afghanistan’s government is taking steps to end a Taliban-linked resistance that will ‘finally earn security’ for the country, President Hamid Karzai said on Friday, a day after a series of deadly attacks....
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Sect leader executed in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 4: Malaysia on Friday executed the leader of an Islamic sect found guilty of trying to overthrow the country’s king and the government under former premier Mahathir Mohamad....
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Indian PM’s gifts stolen
NEW DELHI, Aug 4: Air India is looking for thieves who stole gifts received by the Indian prime minister during a trip abroad, an official said Friday....
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Pro-Hezb march disallowed
RIYADH, Aug 4: Saudi police on Thursday barred a group of about 1000 people from staging a march in support of Hezbollah in the eastern town of Qatif....
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Blair’s commitment is to the market
LONDON: So now we know. The purpose of intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan was not regime change, Tony Blair explained in Los Angeles on Monday, but ‘values change’....
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Lanka war likely to intensify
COLOMBO: As Sri Lanka slides deeper into a new chapter of a two-decade civil war, fresh peace talks are a distant prospect until either the Tamil Tiger rebels or the military gain the upper hand, analysts say....
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Hezbollah will cause tremors in ME
TYRE: Unlike good children, Israel’s drones are heard but not seen. Officially called unmanned aerial vehicles, these ‘eyes in the sky’ circle south Lebanon day and night....
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Castro’s legacy: the other side
LOS ANGELES: News that Fidel Castro may be dead or dying has elicited a variety of sentiments, including an odd grief tinged with an even odder respect....
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Trying to make sense of the war
BEIRUT: “Is there still war outside?” wondered a six-year-old boy with dark shadows under his eyes, one of 1,700 people hiding from Israeli bombardments on the asphyxiating third, fourth and even...
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