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Captured Palestinian officials to be tried
Says Peres
Israel's Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said Sunday that his country would prosecute Palestinian government officials captured in connection with the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier.
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Caught in The Middle
Muslims mull action over Lankan conflict
As violence rages between Sri Lanka's government and ethnic Tamil Tiger rebels, the island's Muslim minority says it is caught in the middle, and there is talk of an armed "Jihad" group emerging if war
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20 militants killed in Afghanistan
American dies as chopper crashes
US soldiers battled insurgents who ambushed a military convoy in southern Afghanistan, killing up to 20 militants, the coalition said yesterday.
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Iraqi Shias divided over amnesty to insurgents
2 GIs, 9 Iraqis killed in attacks, bombing
Iraq's dominant Shia leaders appeared divided yesterday over Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's much-touted national reconciliation plan that aims to curb violence by offering amnesty to rebels.
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Mistrust of Muslims on the rise in Britain
MI5 spying on 8,000 al-Qaeda ‘sympathisers’
In a picture recently published in British newspapers, a Muslim woman wears an England flag headscarf as she cheers on the England football team.
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N Korea warns of nuke war if attacked
North Korea will respond to a pre-emptive US military attack with an "annihilating strike and a nuclear war," the state-run media said yesterday, heightening its antagonistic rhetoric.
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Bombing of Iran would fail
US military warns admn
Senior military officers have warned the US administration that bombing raids against Iran would likely fail to destroy the country's nuclear programme due to a lack of reliable intelligence, the NewYorker
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Nepali Maoists asked to stop extortion
Nepal's Maoist leader said yesterday that rebel cadres should stop extortion, but that "voluntary donation schemes" such as collecting money from businesses to feed troops would continue.
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Britons tired of cruel, vulgar US: Poll
People in Britain view the United States as a vulgar, crime-ridden society obsessed with money and led by an incompetent president whose Iraq policy is failing, according to a newspaper poll published
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Rains flood homes, rail lines in Mumbai
Monsoon rains flooded homes, submerged rail lines and forced hundreds of thousands of people to wade through muddy streets in India's financial capital yesterday.
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