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Israel okays West Bank pullout
Troops move to clear remaining Gaza settlements
The Israeli cabinet gave the final green light yesterday for the evacuation of four small settlements in the northern West Bank as well as for the last three Jewish communities in Gaza, officials said.

UK cops foiled gas attack on parliament
Threat level secretly lowered
British police believe they have foiled a nerve gas attack by the al-Qaeda terrorist network on the British parliament, the Sunday Times reported.

Manmohan asks Naxals to give up arms, contest polls
Asserting that no society could pardon killing of innocent people, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday urged Maoists to give up arms and propagate their cause by fighting elections.

4 US soldiers killed in Afghan attack
Four US soldiers were killed and three others wounded in a bomb blast in southern Afghanistan yesterday, the US military said.

Police who tailed Brazilian didn't think he was a threat
Police who followed an innocent Brazilian shot dead on suspicion of being a suicide bomber did not believe he was an immediate threat, The Observer newspaper reported yesterday.

Iran's new president says 'no' to liberalism
Iran's new hardline President Mahmood Ahmadinejad presented his proposed cabinet to parliament yesterday, lashing out at the West and liberalism and vowing a culture that "promotes virtue and prohibits

Pope to Muslims
Help defeat terrorism
Pope Benedict, in his first major address to Muslim leaders, said on Saturday they had a duty to help defeat terrorism and turn back the "wave of cruel fanaticism" that falsely uses religion to instigate

Bush defends cost of Iraq war
US President George W. Bush, besieged at his ranch by relatives of US soldiers killed in Iraq, launched a five-day campaign on Saturday to defend the war to an increasingly sceptical US public.