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Sep 3, 2010

Hamas among intractable issues in Mideast talks

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Masked Palestinian Hamas militants hold a press conference in Gaza City.
To relaunch Middle East peace talks on Thursday, the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their American mediators quietly agreed to push aside the question of Hamas – the Islamic militant group that controls one of the two Palestinian territories and rejects negotiation
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Bihar abduction: Body of havildar Lucas recovered

The bullet-riddled body of kidnapped Bihar Military Police havildar Lucas Tete was recovered on Friday from Lakhisarai as the Maoist deadline for killing three remaining hostages expired with security forces intensifying operations to rescue them.
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YAHOO - Mexico's newest icon: 22-year-old Miss Universe, Sep 03, 2010


AP – Miss Mexico Jimena Navarrete is crowned Miss Universe 2010 by Stefania Fernandez during the Miss Universe …
By OSKAR GARCIA, Associated Press Writer Oskar Garcia, Associated Press Writer – Tue Aug 24, 1:09 pm ET
LAS VEGAS – From flags to Facebook, 22-year-old Jimena Navarrete has quickly made it clear what she plans to promote as the world's newest Miss Universe — her home country of Mexico.
"I want the whole world to know about my country and my people," the Guadalajara native said after beating 82 competitors for global bragging rights at the pageant in Las Vegas.

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Gunman kills 8 in Slovak capital

Gunman kills 8 in Slovak capital

CTK PhotoThe man shared an apartment block with seven victims.
A late morning shooting spree in Bratislava Aug. 30 ended with eight dead, including six Roma and the gunman, but authorities are hesitant to call the incident racial discrimination.
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GUARDIAN News, Sep 03, 2010

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Australian PM hopes of retaining office boosted by pact with independent MP

Australian PM hopes of retaining office boosted by pact with independent MP
Photo: GETTY IMAGES
Tony Abbott in Sydney, Australia
Julia Gillard is the front runner in the battle for independent support
Tony Abbott's Liberal/National coalition emerged as the single largest party in the Australian election but fell three seats short of a majority
Miss Gillard's Labour Party is now just two seats away from sealing an overall majority after election victory after winning support of Tasmanian MP Andrew Wilkie, a day after the announcment of a pact with the Green Party.
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Mistresses and wives clash over trapped Chilean miners

Susana Valenzuela holds a picture of trapped miner Yonni Barrios Rojas

Susana Valenzuela holds a picture of trapped miner Yonni Barrios Rojas
Authorities at Camp Hope have had to deal with a rush of women coming forward claiming to be first in the Chilean miners' affections in order to receive government handouts.
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Israeli and Palestinian leaders agree to work for draft treaty with fortnightly meetings

The leaders of Israel and the Palestinian Authority concluded their first direct talks in nearly two years yesterday by agreeing to meet personally every two weeks in a bid to cement a peace deal in the Middle East within a year

Mr Netanyahu and Mr Abbas will meet on Sep 14 and 15 at a location in the Middle East
Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, and Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, held what was described as a "long and productive discussion" in which they concurred that they would start striving for a draft treaty.
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Elephants 'scared of ants'

Mice are bad enough, according to the myth - but the creature that really fills an elephant with fear is a lot smaller 

Any elephant foolish enough to approach an ant-protected tree is liable to find swarms of the angry insects crawling up its trunk Photo: CORBIS
Ants are getting the better of nature's biggest land beast on the African savannah, scientists have discovered.
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Osteoporosis drug 'doubles cancer risk'

osteoporosis
Doctors often prescribe bisphosphonates as a preventative measure for those who might be at a higher risk of osteoporosis
Those who have taken oral bisphosphonates for five years or more are twice as likely to develop the cancer than those who have not, the analysis of medical records found. Every year almost 8,000 people in Britain are diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus, or gullet cancer, and ...
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Winston Churchill 'ordered assassination of Mussolini to protect compromising letters’

Churchill chose to holiday under a false name only a few miles from the spot Mussolini was seized 

Churchill chose to holiday under a false name only a few miles from the spot Mussolini was seized
Pierre Milza, an expert on fascist Italy, theorizes that the wartime prime minister may have wanted Mussolini dead to prevent the letters, in which Churchill expressed his admiration for his Italian counterpart before the outbreak of the Second World War, coming to light.
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Sep 2, 2010

Hurricane Earl: Obama declares emergency as storm nears east coast

Barack Obama in the Oval Office
Barack Obama has declared an emergency as hurricane Earl approaches North Carolina. Photograph: Pool/Getty Images
States along the eastern coast of the United States were today preparing evacuation plans to be put in to operation if hurricane Earl moves inland instead of glancing the shoreline.
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Dublin gangland boss John Traynor arrested in Netherlands

Investigative journalist Veronica Guerin, who was killed in 1996
Veronica Guerin, who was shot dead shot dead by the pillion passenger on a motorbike as she stopped at traffic lights in Naas, just outside Dublin, in June 1996 Photograph: PA/PA Archive/PA Photos
A convicted Dublin criminal who fled the Irish Republic after the murder of investigative journalist Veronica Guerin by another gangland boss has been arrested in the Netherlands.
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Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi banned from Venice film festival

Juliette Binoche protests at jailing of film director Jafar Panahi at Cannes
'An attack on art' ... Juliette Binoche protests against the imprisonment of Iranian director Jafar Panahi earlier this year. Photograph: Valery Hache/AFP/Getty Images
The Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi has been denied the right to attend this year's Venice international film festival. Due to open the short film section of the festival with The Accordion, his request was refused by officials in Tehran.
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Middle East peace talks - live

Middle East peace talks get underway
Middle East peace talks get underway at the State Department in Washington, with Hillary Clinton flanked by Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas (right). Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP
3.20pm ET: Here's a first look at an article on the peace talks by Chris McGreal that will be appearing in tomorrow's Guardian print edition:For many diplomats though the...
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To Kosovans, Blair is a true hero

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair visits Kosovo.
Nine Kosovo Albanian children named after Tony Blair pose in front of his picture during an official welcoming ceremony in Pristina on 9 July 2010. Photograph: Kushtrim Ternava/EPA
"The king is dead, long live the king" is an expression about monarchy, but it rings true in modern democracy. Some in Britain appear to have forgotten that Tony Blair led their country on the world stage for 10 ....
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Greece: refusing to quit | Helena Smith

Man smoking a cigarette
Man smoking a cigarette. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images
One year and two months ago to this day, I walked into a bar in Athens where, in a haze of smoke and much to my surprise, I was allowed to break the law. A ban on smoking in public places, imposed by the then conservative government, had just come into force.
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