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Of No Party or Clique: A Look at the Debate on 'The Point of No Return'
The Atlantic
None of the very intelligent commentary around Jeffrey Goldberg's "The Point of No Return" can be said to have cheered us up. No one has a neat solution to what almost everyone considers an acutely dangerous problem: Iran's nuclear facilities, ...
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Pakistanis Flee As More Towns Flood
Voice of America
Photo: AP Some 150000 Pakistanis have been forced to move to higher ground as a freshly swollen Indus River submerged more towns and villages in the southern region of the country. Authorities have struggled to strengthen levees and other potential ...
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Iran Shows Off Unmanned, Long-Range Bomber
Voice of America
Photo: AP Iran's military has unveiled a new unmanned aircraft, saying the drone is capable of carrying out long-range missions. Iran's military displayed the drone Sunday at a ceremony attended by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and shown on live ...
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Hamas cancels unity meeting with Fatah
Jerusalem Post
By JPOST.COM STAFF Hamas postponed a meeting with Fatah indefinitely on Sunday, due to the Palestinian Authority's decision to enter direct talks with Israel, Maan News Agency reported. The meeting, which was supposed to be on Saturday night, ...
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Yalu River water level drops below warning level but more rain to fall
Xinhua
BEIJING, Aug. 22 (Xinhua) -- China's flood control authorities said Sunday water levels on the Yalu River in northeast China at the border with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) had dropped below their warning levels. ...
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Xinhua
Acceptance of Indian aid boosts Pak's image: Gilani
Indian Express
Pak PM Gilani noted that both Pakistanis and Indians had collected funds for the flood-affected people. Pakistan, which agreed to accept $5 million Indian aid for flood victims following prod by the US, has claimed that the move has enhanced its ...
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Clinton sparks debate by linking Pak floods with global climate change
Sify
Linking devastating Pakistan floods with global climate change, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the deluge and other extreme weather events in the recent past clearly points towards climate change getting worse. ...
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Dagestan rewards security officers who killed Moscow metro bomb mastermind
RIA Novosti
MAKHACHKALA, August 22 (RIA Novosti) - President of Russia's volatile North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov decided on Sunday to reward security officers who killed the mastermind of the March suicide bombings on the Moscow metro. ...
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Muslim Miss USA against Ground Zero mosque
NDTV.com
PTI, Updated: August 22, 2010 16:08 IST New York: Rima Fakih, the first Muslim to win the Miss USA title, has said that though she supports the constitutional rights on the freedom of religion she doesn't favour building a mosque near Ground Zero. ...
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NDTV.com
Four US soldiers killed in Afghan violence
AFP
KABUL — Four US soldiers were killed on Sunday while fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, NATO said. The four died in three separate incidents, in eastern and southern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. ...
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AFP
Lockerbie bomber: Megrahi's freedom mocks both the victims and justice
Telegraph.co.uk
Kenny MacAskill and Alex Salmond's definition of 'compassion' is an affront to justice, says Alasdair Palmer. By Alasdair Palmer One of the doctors who examined Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi observed ruefully last week that "the longer he has gone ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Oz man 'punches horse in head' in wild brawl
Sify
A brawl in downtown Darwin landed a police officer in hospital after a man allegedly attacked a horse, punching it in the head a number of times. Police have labelled it a "cowardly act" on members who attempted to keep everyone safe, ...
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Moderate earthquake in sea off Greece
Sydney Morning Herald
A moderate earthquake of 5.6 magnitude hit an area in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Greece on Sunday, the US government reported. The epicentre of the tremor, which occurred at 1023 GMT (2023 AEST) was located 152 kilometres west southwest of Patras, ...
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Kan to stay mum on 1910 takeover pact
The Japan Times
The administration of Prime Minister Naoto Kan has decided to refrain from referring the government's view that the 1910 pact authorizing the annexation of the Korean Peninsula was concluded in a valid manner in accordance with international law in ...
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Chinese 'Michelin Baby' Lei Lei, 10 months, weighs the same as a 6-year-old
Daily Mail
By Mail Foreign Service A Chinese baby has become so chubby he now weighs the same as a six-year-old child. Ten-month-old Lei Lei has been nicknamed the 'Michelin Baby' after tipping the scales at a whopping 20kg (3.1 stones). According to his mother, ...
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