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Israel mulls response to Gaza rocket attack |
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JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet defense officials on
Wednesday morning to weigh Israel’s response to a Palestinian
rocket attack, amid growing calls for tough military action.
Olmert will meet in his Jerusalem office with
Defense Minister Amir Peretz and the army’s top brass “to
discuss Israel’s reaction to the Hamas attack,” a senior
government official told AFP.
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Seoul to naturalize foreign workers
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SEOUL: South Korea said Wednesday it will grant skilled foreign
manual workers permanent residency to ease a chronic labor shortage
in small- and medium-sized industries.
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Ecuador political crisis worsens
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Ecuador sank into political crisis Tuesday in a power struggle over
its president’s reform program, as demonstrators hit the streets
and dissenting opposition deputies fled abroad from charges of
treason.
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Russia set to pay last respects to Yeltsin
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Russians on Wednesday bid a final farewell to Boris Yeltsin with a
national day of mourning for the funeral of the man who brought down
the Soviet Union and forced Russia through painful democratic
reform.
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US army slammed for faking ‘war heroes’
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A PAIR of high-profile US army figures accused the military of
spreading outright lies and manipulating their stories for a
hero-starved public, during testimony before Congress Tuesday.
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INBRIEF
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JAKARTA: Thousands of police and soldiers patrolled Indonesia’s
eastern Ambon Island Wednesday amid heavy security marking a key
pro-independence rebel anniversary.
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