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LAS VEGAS, Sun Aug 10, (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - US presidential candidate John McCain on Saturday again accused his opponent Barack Obama of defeatism and said the Democratic senator from Illinois did not have what it took to be the country's commander in chief. "Both candidates in this election pledge to end this war and bring our troops home. The great difference is that I intend to win it first," the Republican senator from Arizona told the national convention of Disabled American Veterans. |
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ERGNETI, Georgia, Sun Aug 10,(bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Georgia withdrew its forces from breakaway South Ossetia region on Sunday after three days of fighting but Russia has sent more troops into the enclave, the Georgian government said. The Russian army said Georgian forces were still in South Osettia, Russian media reported. |
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ALGIERS, Sun Aug 10, (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - A suicide car bombing killed eight people east of Algiers late on Saturday in the second such attack this month, OPEC member Algeria's official APS news agency reported on Sunday. The blast, which also wounded 19 people, happened at about 10 p.m. (2100 GMT) in the coastal town of Zemmouri el Bahri 45 km east of the Algerian capital, the agency reported an Interior Ministry source as saying. |
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HARARE, Sun Aug 10, (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe arrived at a Harare hotel on Sunday for expected talks with the opposition amid growing signs a power-sharing deal to end a post-election crisis was imminent. South African President Thabo Mbeki, who has been mediating in the talks, was at the hotel. Opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur Mutambara, leader of a breakaway MDC faction, were expected there as well. |
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HARARE, Sun Aug 10, (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - The leader of one of Zimbabwe's opposition factions said on Sunday they were close to a power-sharing deal with President Robert Mugabe's party to end a political crisis. Talks began last month in the aftermath of Mugabe's re-election unopposed in June in a poll condemned around the world and boycotted by Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the main opposition faction, because of attacks on its supporters. |
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MANILA, Sun Aug 10, (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - The Philippine military shelled Muslim rebels holed up in Catholic farmlands in the south on Sunday, raising tensions on the eve of elections in the region. The government had given around 800 Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) guerrillas a 24-hour deadline on Thursday to leave the villages in North Cotabato province but most had stayed. |
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BEIJING, Sun Aug 10, (bdnews24/Reuters) - US President George W Bush on Sunday worshipped at a Beijing church as part of his effort to press for wider religious freedom in China and met the country's Communist leaders for what he promised would be "candid" talks. Bush, in China for the Olympic Games, met Chinese President Hu Jintao for private talks the US president has repeatedly said he uses to talk frankly about human rights as well as freedom of speech and religion in China. |
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BEIJING, Sun Aug 10, (bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Suspected Muslim separatists and suicide bombers launched a dozen attacks in west China on Sunday, killing eight people in the blasts and a subsequent shootout with police in renewed violence two days into the Olympics. It was the second attack in restive Xinjiang in a week after 16 police were killed at a border post on Monday. |
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ISLAMABAD, Sun Aug 10,(bdnews24.com/Reuters) - Pressure is mounting on Pakistan's beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf from his own allies to step down before the ruling coalition tries to impeach him this month, officials said on Sunday. Pakistan has been in political turmoil since early last year. The United States and its allies fear a prolonged political and constitutional crisis will lead to instability in the nuclear-armed state and partner of Washington in its war on terror, and uncertainty has unsettled markets and investors. |
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UNITED NATIONS, Sun Aug 10,(bdnews24.com/Reuters) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is alarmed by intensified fighting in Georgia and worried about the violence spreading, his office said on Saturday evening. Ban urged an immediate end to hostilities and a peaceful solution to the conflict, it said in a statement. |
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Reuters, Hyderabad, India, - Heavy monsoon rains brought down homes and swamped parts of southern India, killing at least 40 people over the weekend, officials said on Sunday. The rains triggered flooding in Andhra Pradesh and swamped its capital Hyderabad where 14 people were killed, mostly crushed under the roofs of their homes. Two people were electrocuted by uprooted power lines. |
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