RESIGNATION: The deputy prime minister charged with negotiating with the demonstrators quit after police fired teargas at them yesterday, injuring 116 people
Anti-government protesters trapped hundreds of Thai lawmakers and senators inside the parliament building yesterday, a minister said, forcing the prime minister to scale a fence to escape the mob.

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Police yesterday investigated the residence of a lawmaker in central Pakistan where an overnight suicide bombing killed at least 20 people and wounded 60 others, officials and media reports said.

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LONG-TERM SOLUTION: US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said an effort must be made to determine who wants to be part of the country’s future and who does not
US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Monday endorsed efforts to reach out to members of the Taliban or other militants in Afghanistan who may be considered reconcilable, much like what has happened in Iraq.

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China confirmed yesterday it had curtailed military exchanges with the US over a proposed US arms package to Taiwan, saying the plan was a threat to peace in the region.

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Rescuers rushed tents, food and water to villagers in Tibet yesterday after an earthquake and scores of aftershocks rattled the capital and surrounding areas, killing at least 10 people and collapsing hundreds of houses.

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Up to 40 passengers and crew were injured, some suffering broken bones and cuts, when a Qantas jetliner suddenly changed altitude yesterday, Australian police and the airline said.

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POTENTIAL BUYERS: Iran said that it plans to buy advanced S-300 anti-aircraft missiles from Russia that could target aircraft sent to destroy its nuclear facilities
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert came to Moscow on Monday aiming to focus on Russian arms sales to Israel’s enemies at meetings Russia hopes will bolster its image as a Middle East peacemaker.

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MILITANTS: The Yemeni president did not give the number of people that were arrested or detail his allegation that the cell was linked to Israeli intelligence
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced on Monday the dismantling of a “terrorist cell” which he said was linked to Israeli intelligence services.

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The philosopher Immanuel Kant believed that telling lies was always morally wrong. But is it possible to live without telling a single lie for a whole year? That is the task that Cathal Morrow has set himself and he will let us know next year if it is possible, when he has finished his book on the experiment, to be called The Complete Kant.

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The son of a former French president, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and a tycoon with ties to Arizona’s jet set were among the headliners as 42 defendants went on trial in Paris, accused in a worldwide web of trafficked arms to Angola, money laundering and kickbacks.

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P5+1: Western countries hit out at Iran at a meeting in Vienna last month over its refusal to disprove weapons allegations work and for pursuing uranium enrichment
Iran’s nuclear negotiator Said Jalili sent a protest to EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Monday over the West’s attitude to his country’s atomic program, a senior Iranian official said.

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SECRECY: The vice presidential candidate continued to reject a legislative inquiry, but her husband Todd has agreed to answer written questions from investigators
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin says she’s an open book regarding an abuse-of-power investigation. Apparently her staff doesn’t feel the same way.

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Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain, unleashing a series of vicious attacks on his Democratic rival Senator Barack Obama, called his presidential opponent a liar as he ratcheted up the campaign’s hostile tone on the eve of the second presidential debate yesterday.

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Evel Knievel never denied his scrapes with the law — the late motorcycle daredevil often reveled in them. But even he objected to a 1970s FBI investigation of whether he was involved in a string of beatings.

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A bus driver with a string of motor vehicle offenses and a history of substance abuse was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol on Monday after his casino-bound charter bus ran into a ditch, killing eight people.

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Conservationists have taken the first detailed look at the world’s mammals in more than a decade, and the news isn’t good.

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