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US accuses Iran of arming Iraq fighters
WASHINGTON, Aug 23: A senior US military official alleged on Wednesday there is ‘clear evidence’ that Iran is funding, training and arming Shia militants to destabilise Iraq.... 
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Dutch arrest 12 on India-bound plane
AMSTERDAM, Aug 23: Dutch police arrested 12 passengers behaving suspiciously on a US Northwest Airlines plane bound for India that was forced to turn back to Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on Wednesday....
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Woman’s death: an act of sati?
NEW DELHI, Aug 23: An Indian woman threw herself on her husband’s funeral pyre, killing herself in line with an old Hindu custom that persists in rural pockets of India despite...
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Ethnic slur: Bush to help senator
WASHINGTON, Aug 23: US President George Bush plans to raise money for a Republican lawmaker who recently drew fire for using what some have charged is an ethnic slur against a volunteer of Indian descent....
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Syria warns UN of closing border
HELSINKI, Aug 23: Syria threatened to close its border with Lebanon if an international UN force were deployed along the border, Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja said on Wednesday after talks with his Syrian counterpart....
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China, Russia slate Mars flight for 2009
BEIJING, Aug 23: China and Russia are planning a joint mission to Mars that will bring back samples to earth and land on one of the red planet’s tiny moons, state media quoted a Chinese scientist as saying on Wednesday....
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Israeli troops shoot at militant
JENIN, Aug 23: An Israeli army undercover unit shot and seriously wounded a senior Palestinian militant leader in the West Bank town of Jenin on Wednesday, witnesses and medics said....
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Palestinian group claims kidnapping of Fox men
GAZA CITY, Aug 23: A previously unknown Palestinian group in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday claimed last week’s kidnapping of two journalists from the US Fox News television network, demanding that...
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LTTE rejects govt’s offer
COLOMBO, Aug 23: Even as fighting ebbed in the north and the east of the country, the Tamil Tiger rebels on Tuesday brushed aside calls by the government for the guerillas to initiate peace....
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US terms Iran reply short of demands
WASHINGTON, Aug 23: The United States said on Wednesday that Iran’s response to a package of incentives offered from world powers fell short of a UN Security Council demand that Tehran abandon enrichment activities....
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US intel on Iran called faulty
WASHINGTON, Aug 23: The US intelligence community is ill-prepared to assess Iran’s nuclear weapons capabilities and its intentions for developing weapons of mass destruction, a congressional report said on Wednesday....
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Fuel protests expose Nepal revolution’s divisions
KATHMANDU: Chanting members of the Maoist student union swarmed onto the streets of Nepal’s capital Saturday to protest fuel price hikes — but had to cut short the demonstration when they ran out of kerosene to fuel their homemade torches....
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Jaffna — the fountainhead of Tamil separatism COLOMBO: Sri Lankan troops and Tigers are locked in fierce fighting over Jaffna, but analysts say the arid peninsula is of little real value to either party except as a symbol....
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Ancient Indian port faces extinction
PATTANAM (India): Pottery shards, beads, Roman copper coins and ancient wine bottles litter the strata beneath this small seaside village in India’s southern Kerala state. The 250 families, mostly agricultural labourers,...
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Fighting keeps tourists away from Sri Lanka
KOGGALA (Sri Lanka): Standing by the razed foundations of his home in Sri Lanka’s southern tip, tsunami survivor Namal Kumara is far removed from fighting in the country’s north between Tamil Tigers and the military....
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One-woman crusade against HR abuses
NEW DELHI: It took Supreme Court lawyer Sonia Raj Sood just one visit to occupied Kashmir to find her true calling in life — to fight atrocities against Kashmiris attributed to India’s security forces....
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Amitabh to play genie in children’s film
MUMBAI: Bollywood star Amitabh Bachchan will play a genie in his first children’s film along the lines of the Arabian Nights fantasies, a newspaper said on Wednesday....
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Lalu, Rabri win a reprieve in SC
NEW DELHI: Railway minister Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi can breathe a sigh of relief with Supreme Court rejecting pleas for cancellation of their bail and clearing them of...
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Refugees’ relocation sought
DHAKA: Bangladesh on Wednesday sought international assistance to help find a new home for thousands of refugees from Myanmar, saying it couldn’t afford to keep them any longer....
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