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Spreading hate, one prejudice at a time
Hindustan Times
Pastor Terry Jones of the Dove World Outreach Center makes comments to reporters prior to a service... So much was read into the announcement by Pastor Terry Jones that he would burn the Koran on the anniversary of 9/11 that this formerly obscure ...
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Dueling protests over New York mosque
Sydney Morning Herald
Dueling protests have taken place in New York on the ninth anniversary of 9/11 near the site of a controversial proposed mosque two blocks from Ground Zero. About 200 people supporting the right of a Muslim organisation to build the Islamic cultural ...
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Eid-al-Fitr a Somber Affair in Pakistan as Flooding Affects Millions
Voice of America
Photo: AP Celebrations for the holiday Eid-al-Fitr in Pakistan are muted as millions of Pakistanis continue to suffer in the wake of the country's worst flooding. The heavy rains came to Pakistan just before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, ...
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San Bruno search continues, two missing
San Francisco Chronicle
(09-11) 12:09 PDT San Bruno -- At least two people remain missing after the fiery natural gas explosion Thursday that killed four people and left a San Bruno neighborhood in flames. Mayor Jim Ruane told reporters at a news conference this morning that ...
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Fate of US Hiker in Iran Uncertain
Voice of America
Photo: AP Sarah Shourd, right, embraces her mother, Nora Shourd, as they meet at an hotel in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, May 20, 2010. Three Americans jailed in Iran for 10 months hugged and kissed their mothers in an emotional reunion Thursday after the ...
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Bin Laden's capture important for US security: Obama
Hindustan Times
US President Barack Obama has said that capturing terror mastermind Osama bin Laden is still extremely important to national security although it won't "solve all the problems." Nine years after masterminding the 9/11 attacks and evading the US forces, ...
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Denmark raises terror preparedness after hotel blast
Reuters
By Anna Ringstrom COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark raised its terror attack preparedness on Saturday, the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the United States, after a man set off a small explosion in a Copenhagen hotel on Friday. ...
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9/11 memorial ceremony at ground zero simple, poignant
Christian Science Monitor
At the 9/11 memorial ceremony in New York Saturday, family members and others read the names of those who died that day in 2001. It took over three hours as the day grew warmer. Relatives of victims of the 9/11 attacks stop at the reflecting pool ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Up to 10 dead in Iran gas pipeline blast
Sydney Morning Herald
Up to 10 people are feared dead from a gas pipeline blast near Iran's northeastern city of Mashhad and another 16 have suffered burns. "Around nine or 10 people have been reported dead and some 16 of the people working there have been taken to hospital ...
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US expresses concern over changes to Lankan constitution
MSN India
Washington, Sep 11 (PTI) US today expressed concern over the changes to the Sri Lankan constitution that eliminates the term limit for President, saying it undermines the principles of constitutional democracy. "The United States is concerned that this ...
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Musharraf 'to return' to Pakistan
BBC News
By Owen Bennett Jones BBC News The former military ruler of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf has said he is forming a new political party with a view to returning to politics in the country. He said he will be going back to Pakistan before the next elections ...
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Musharraf Plans Return to Pakistan Politics
Voice of America
Photo: AP Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says he is planning to return home and return to politics. In an interview with the BBC broadcast on Friday, Mr. Musharraf, who now lives in London, said he is willing to risk his life in order to ...
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Vladikavkaz car blast not terrorist act - police
RIA Novosti
VLADIKAVKAZ, September 11 (RIA Novosti) - The car blast that rocked the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz on Saturday was not a terrorist act, deputy head of North Ossetia's Ministry of Internal Affairs said. "A grenade has exploded, ...
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China officials in Nepal
Hindustan Times
Amid controversy over Nepal Maoists allegedly seeking Chinese help to bribe lawmakers in the deadlocked prime ministerial poll, a high level delegation from Nepal's northern neighbour landed in Kathmandu on Saturday. The 21-member delegation led by ...
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Pentagon tried to block 9/11 book
Hindustan Times
The US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) tried to block a book giving details of a project which identified the 9/11 plotter well before the hijack of the plane used in the attack, a media report said. According to Fox News, it has obtained a letter in ...
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Karzai marks 9/11 with appeal over civilian deaths
The Associated Press
KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai marked the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the US on Saturday by insisting the origins of the continued Taliban insurgency are not in Afghanistan. Karzai did not mention neighboring ...
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Taliban Says US Should Pull Out of Afghanistan
Voice of America
Photo: AP The Taliban is using the anniversary of the September 11 attacks to say the United States should withdraw from Afghanistan, adding that the US has lost any chance to establish peace. A statement issued Saturday criticized what the Taliban ...
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234000 centenarians listed in registries missing
The Japan Times
By NATSUKO FUKUE The Justice Ministry announced Friday that the existence of 234354 centenarians listed as "alive" in family registries can't be confirmed. The finding was reached after the ministry decided to carry out a nationwide survey on ...
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'Iraq WikiLeak bigger than Afghan leak'
Times of India
NEW YORK: A large number of secret documents relating to the Iraq war will be released in the next anticipated spill by WikiLeaks, many times more than the 90000 documents concerning the Afghan war made public by the online organisation in July. ...
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A chocolate lover's dream
Hindustan Times
It is a chocolate lover's dream. Armenian company Grand Candy on Saturday unveiled the world's largest-ever chocolate bar -- a 25-centimetre-thick slab weighing in at 4410 kilograms and measuring 5.60 metres by 2.75 metres. Armenian company Grand Candy ...
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Is BJP trying to have its cake and eat it too?
Hindustan Times
The BJP's differences over not fully owning up yet another political experiment with a recalcitrant JMM has left it open to criticism that the party is trying to "have the cake as well as eat it". Top leaders like LK Advani, MM Joshi, Sushma Swaraj and ...
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US woman kills husband over porn video
IBNLive.com
New York: A 32-year-old US woman killed her husband after discovering a porn video in their home, police said. Shellyann Henry, a mother of three, stabbed her husband Rudolph Henry with a pair of scissors in their apartment in New York, the 'New York ...
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