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The US government has assured Israel that Iran's process of converting nuclear material into a working weapon would take at least a year, according to The New York Times.
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It was the sight of peach juice dripping from the chin of a teenage French female nudist that led a Cambridgeshire public schoolboy to convert to Islam. Thirty-five years later, Timothy Winter – or Sheikh Abdul-Hakim Murad, as he is known to his colleagues – has been named one of the world's most influential Muslims.
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The Battle of Britain is being commemorated by a reading of one of Churchill's most famous speeches and a fly-past at Whitehall.
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(Aug. 19) -- It is one thing for a country to crave sovereignty, and another to get it. Iraqi government officials today welcomed news that the last U.S. combat brigade had left the country, seeing it as a symbolic milestone in Washington's plans for a full withdrawal by the end of next year. There are now fewer than 56,000 American troops left in Iraq, down from a high of 180,000 in November 2007.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Travel on major U.S. airlines fell roughly 1 percent in July with one key measure of revenue growth slowing, according to an industry trade group that also said the sector's finances remain fragile.
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Outlook After the enduring and damaging ructions over the tax status of Lord Ashcroft, the Conservative Party donor, one might have expected David Cameron to think twice before appointing a government adviser likely to prompt a similar row. It was brave of him, then, to ask Sir Philip Green to head a review looking for public spending cuts. The Prime Minister surely cannot have been surprised that his choice has caused some consternation – not least, it is increasingly clear, among Liberal Democrat MPs whose votes he may need in order to push the cuts through Parliament.
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When the film Minority Report was in cinemas in 2002, they called it science fiction. As Tom Cruise's character walks through a shopping mall, he is assailed by talking billboards that recognise him and target him with personalised advertisements. "John Anderton, you could use a Guinness right about now," one calls out.
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As one international agency after another announces that the floods in Pakistan have left millions of people in dire need of aid, Turkish institutions have mobilized to provide post-disaster relief to the nation in the aftermath of the most disastrous floods in the country’s history.
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On Ladies' Day at any modern race meeting, ladettes and their excesses are generally confined to the bars and grandstands. Here yesterday, though, the woman behaving worst was out on the track. Sariska, hot favourite for the day's centrepiece, the Darley Yorkshire Oaks, caused a wholly unwelcome sensation by standing stock-still as the starting gates opened for the Group One contest, refusing point-blank to race.
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Kita, one of the Calgary Zoo's Siberian tigers, is suffering from a serious chest infection, officials say.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - A top US egg producer Thursday expanded its recall to include 380 million chicken eggs that could be contaminated with salmonella bacteria, in one of the largest such recalls in recent history.
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Kita, one of the Calgary Zoo's Siberian tigers, is suffering from a serious chest infection, officials say.
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Pitcher R.A. Dickey has become a rare bright spot in the Mets' season.
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AP - The Army private suspected in one of the largest unauthorized disclosures of classified information in U.S. history has become a hero to many anti-war activists who have joined an international effort to free him.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hip-hop star Wyclef Jean's love for his homeland is not doubted by Haitians in New York -- one of the largest communities outside the Caribbean nation -- but many are wary of his campaign to become Haiti's president.
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India's Shiv Kapur fired six birdies to grab the first round lead in the Czech Open at the Prosper Golf Resort on Thursday.The 28-year-old from New Delhi carded a six-under-par 66 to open up a slim one stroke lead on Ryder Cup hopeful Peter Hanson of Sweden and Argentina's Tano Goya.Kapur made his burst from the second to seventh holes and despite beginning the back nine with two bogeys, birdies on the 16th and 18th helped him set the pace.
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The economic climate is grim and the tricky business of securing a job of any description is becoming even more difficult. Anyone lucky enough to be in even moderately lucrative employment must, surely, be keen to hang on in there.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baseball great Roger Clemens, one of the best pitchers in the sport's history, was indicted on Thursday for lying to the U.S. Congress when he denied using anabolic steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain may cancel one or both of its planned new aircraft carriers to cut costs but there are no plans to scale back the country's nuclear deterrent, a senior Ministry of Defence source said on Thursday.
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(Aug. 19) -- It is one thing for a country to crave sovereignty, and another to get it. Iraqi government officials today welcomed news that the last U.S. combat brigade had left the country, seeing it as a symbolic milestone in Washington's plans for a full withdrawal by the end of next year. There are now fewer than 56,000 American troops left in Iraq, down from a high of 180,000 in November 2007.
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