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• Chelsea's Drogba won't risk an early return

  - 2008-09-03

  LONDON AFP — Chelsea striker Didier Drogba insists he won't rush back from the knee injury which has forced him to miss the start of the season. The 30-year-old has been sidelined with the problem since the club's pre-season tour to Asia and Russia. The Ivory Coast star...

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• Greece says to invest 2.1 bln euros to upgrade telecom network

  - 2008-09-03

  ATHENS AFP — Greece wants to invest in a new fibre optic network that will drastically upgrade its broadband and cable television capabilities, the Greek economy and telecoms ministers said on Wednesday. "We have decided to invest as a country in a modern fibre optic network that will change...

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• Al-Arabiya bureau chief says told to leave Iran

  - 2008-09-02

  TEHRAN AFP — The head of the Tehran bureau of pan-Arab television station Al-Arabiya said on Tuesday that Iranian officials have demanded his departure from the country. "In a telephone call with the foreign press bureau of the Iranian culture ministry I was informed of my definitive exit from...

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• Republicans launch bid to send McCain to White House

  - 2008-09-02

  ST PAUL, Minnesota AFP — Republicans belatedly launch their effort Tuesday to showcase John McCain to millions of American voters, after first trying to quell a storm over his shock running mate pick Sarah Palin. The Republican National Convention here will spotlight McCain's heroic biography as a Vietnam war...

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• Jet with burst tire lands safely in Los Angeles

  - 2008-09-02

  LOS ANGELES AFP — An American Airlines jet landed safely here Tuesday after being forced to return to Los Angeles International Airport following a burst tire on take-off, television images showed. The Toronto-bound American Airlines flight 1586, a Boeing 737 carrying 136 people, appeared to touch down smoothly just...

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• Police arrest 300 in anti-Republican rallies

  - 2008-09-02

  ST PAUL, Minnesota AFP — Police used tear gas and chemical sprays to disperse hundreds of defiant protestors marching against President George W. Bush's policies outside the Republican convention site. Several arrests were made, bringing to nearly 300 the number of people held in two days of clashes outside...

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• Doping scandal puts pressure on Japanese chief

  - 2008-09-02

  TOKYO AFP — The legendary head of Japan's sumo association came under intense pressure to resign Wednesday after two Russian wrestlers, one belonging to his stable, tested positive for marijuana. The scandal rocked the centuries-old sport just weeks after the sumo authority took the unprecedented step of expelling another...

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• 20 die in South African blazes

  - 2008-09-01

  JOHANNESBURG AFP — Runaway fires driven by strong winds across South Africa at the weekend killed at least 20 people, including two children, media reported Monday. An 18-year-old boy, eight-year-old girl and 11-year-old boy burnt to death, with five others hospitalised, in the Eastern Cape province after fire engulfed...

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• One dead, dozens injured as protesters clash in Bangkok: officials

  - 2008-09-01

  BANGKOK AFP — Thai police called in army reinforcements early Tuesday as violent clashes between protesters in Bangkok left one person dead and dozens injured, officials and local media said. There were reports of gunshots being fired as thousands of baton-wielding pro- and anti-government protesters clashed in the capital...

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• Republican convention in the eye of a storm

  - 2008-09-01

  ST PAUL, Minnesota AFP — A subdued Republican convention opened, blown off course by Hurricane Gustav and revelations that the teenage daughter of vice presidential pick Sarah Palin is pregnant. With the nation preoccupied by the hurricane hammering Louisiana three years after the catastrophe wrought by Katrina, the Republicans...

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