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EU still divided over ME ceasefire call
UN powers speed up peace efforts
The European Union battled yesterday to hammer out differences over calling for an immediate ceasefire in the Middle East, as Israel extended its ground war against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
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Tigers hit Lanka's main naval port
Battle for canal heats up as 4 sailors killed
Tamil Tigers shelled Sri Lanka's main navy base yesterday, killing four sailors and wounding 30, while military warplanes pounded rebel positions as a bloody battle for control of an irrigation canalentered
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Syria puts forces on alert
Assad asks army to prepare for the worst
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told the Syrian military on Monday to raise its readiness, pledging not to abandon support for Lebanese resistance against Israel.
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Lone Communist clinging to power in Americas
Fidel Castro, who temporarily handed power to his brother Raul on Monday, has defied four decades of US attempts to oust him and has held on as the only Communist leader in Latin America.
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Fidel Castro, socialist beacon or ailing despot?
Cuban President Fidel Castro, who handed over power provisionally to his younger brother after undergoing surgery, has thumbed his nose for four decades at the US government just 90 miles (145 km) away
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Kashmiri women lift veil in silent awakening
Twenty-five-year-old Saima Farhad is a Kashmiri woman who has shunned the veil and set out to discuss dating in a region where cinemas showing Bollywood romances are hard to find and beauty parlours scorned.
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Three British troops killed in Afghanistan
Taliban militants killed three British soldiers patrolling in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday in the first fatalities sustained by Nato forces since taking command of the insurgency-wracked region a day
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Pak deluge kills 24
Karachi paralysed
Heavy monsoon rains killed at least 24 people, including 14 children, and injured more than 50 in southern Pakistan, officials and rescue workers said yesterday.
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Meteor shower lights up India
A meteor shower in the skies over western India prompted a hunt for celestial debris Tuesday after witnesses spoke of a "great flash".
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