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PA decides to halt talks unless building freeze reinstated
Jerusalem Post
By HERB KEINON AND KHALED ABU TOAMEH PM appeals to Abbas not to walk away: "The way to reach a historic peace agreement is to sit around the negotiating table, not to leave it." Jerusalem took in stride on Saturday night a Palestinian Authority ...
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Nigerian rebel group says car bombs one-off attack
Reuters
LAGOS Oct 2 (Reuters) - Nigeria's main rebel group said on Saturday car bombs in the capital Abuja were intended as a one-off symbolic strike rather than the start of a campaign of violence. "It was a symbolic and opportunistic attack intended as a ...
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Ecuador president declares victory
Aljazeera.net
As police colonels are investigated over Thursday's unrest, Correa says the outcome was a victory for the government. Rafael Correa, Ecuador's president, has declared victory over renegade police officers he said were part of an attempt to overthrow, ...
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Musharraf rallies supporters in Britain
Economic Times
LONDON: Former Pakistani president rallied supporters Saturday in the British city of , saying he wants to end his exile and begin efforts to return to power in Pakistan, the BBC reported. Musharraf, who ruled the country for nine years, ...
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Two drone strikes kills 14 in NW Pakistan
Xinhua
ISLAMABAD, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- At least 14 people were killed and several others injured Saturday in two separate US drone strikes in North Waziristan tribal area of northwest Pakistan, local sources said, citing security officials. ...
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Brazilians Set to Head to the Polls
Wall Street Journal
By PAULO PRADA SÃO PAULO—Brazilians will begin heading to the polls Sunday morning in a vote widely expected to deliver a third four-year mandate to the leftist Workers Party and catapult the first female candidate ever to the presidency of Latin ...
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Iran Says It Arrested Worm Suspects
New York Times
By WILLIAM YONG TEHRAN — Iran has arrested an unspecified number of "nuclear spies" in connection with a damaging worm that has infected computers in its nuclear program, the intelligence minister, Heydar Moslehi, said Saturday. ...
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Dutch coalition with Wilders near
BBC News
A pact to allow Dutch centre-right parties to form a government with the support of anti-Islamist populist Geert Wilders has cleared another hurdle. The Christian Democrats (CDA) ratified the deal at a meeting on Saturday by 68% in favour, ...
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Mrs Lee Kuan Yew dies at age 89
Channel News Asia
SINGAPORE : Madam Kwa Geok Choo - the wife of Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, and mother of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has died on Saturday. Mrs Lee Kuan Yew, age 89, passed away peacefully at home at 5.40 pm. A statement from the Prime Minister's ...
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Swat Islamic University VC shot dead
Daily Times
By Akhtar Amin PESHAWAR: Dr Muhammad Farooq Khan, a renowned religious scholar and vice chancellor of the newly established Swat Islamic University, was shot dead on Saturday, police said. Mardan District Police Officer (DPO) Waqif Khan told Daily ...
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News Analysis: Meeting Asia, Europe looks east
Xinhua
BRUSSELS, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- European and Asian leaders are set to build on centuries-old trade and economic ties between the two continents when they meet here Monday. Hosting more than a dozen Asian leaders in the heart of Europe, the European Union ...
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Support to colleagues in Lahore
Daily Times
ISLAMABAD: The lawyers of the federal capital observed a complete strike on Saturday to show solidarity with their colleagues who are demanding transfer of a judge in Lahore, to record their protest against the conviction of Dr Afia Siddiqui by a US ...
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Italian protestors call for Berlusconi resignation
AFP
ROME — About 1500 people marched in the Italian capital on Saturday to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, but the turnout was far smaller than at a similar protest last year. Days after the Italian leader survived a ...
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37 die in Mexico mudslides
Hindustan Times
Thirty-seven people have died in mudslides in southern Mexico, authorities said on Friday. The southern mountainous states of Oaxaca and Chiapas have been hit by massive mudslides, triggered by heavy rains over the last few days, burying people and ...
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