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- Iran felicitates Tajikistan on National Day
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday expressed felicitations to Tajik President Imomali Rakmon on the country’s National Day. - Iran felicitates Brazil on National Day
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday felicitated his Brazilian counterpart, Luiz Inacia Lula da Silva, on the country’s National Day (September 7). - President Ahmadinejad returns home
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Tehran from Beijing, China, Sunday morning. - President Ahmadinejad ends visit to China
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran left Beijing for home Sunday morning at the end of his day-long visit to China.
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 Boston Herald - By John Tomase FOXBORO - Patriots [team stats] quarterback Tom Brady [stats] went down with a left knee injury midway through the first quarter, setting an ominous tone to the team’s season opener this afternoon at Gillette Stadium. |
BY ERIK BOLAND | erik.boland@newsday.com MIAMI - So imagine what happens when Brett Favre actually feels comfortable with the plays he has at his disposal, or the number of them for that matter. |
 Sports Network - New Orleans, LA (Sports Network) - Reggie Bush's 42-yard touchdown reception in the fourth quarter lifted New Orleans over Tampa Bay, 24-20, in an NFC South clash Sunday at the Superdome. |
Shanghai Daily
- Twin blasts hit Afghan police HQ
TWO suicide bombers detonated explosives inside the headquarters of the main police station in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar today, causing casualties, two sources told Reuters. A senior border police… - Woman locked in cabin in Sweden for 9 years-report
A 58-YEAR-OLD man suspected of keeping a woman locked up in a tiny cabin in southern Sweden for nine years has been ordered by a court to be held in custody, local media reported. The man, who denied all charges,… - Thai PM to explain political situation at UN General Assembly
THAILAND’S embattled Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej said today that he will take the opportunity of attending the United Nations General Assembly later this month to explain to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and… - Ferocious Hurricane Ike threatens Cuba, Gulf
HURRICANE Ike barreled toward Cuba as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm today and was forecast to sweep into the central Gulf of Mexico as a large and powerful storm echoing Hurricane Gustav. Ike’s top…
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- ‘Extremely dangerous’ Ike pounds Caribbean
Hurricane Ike barreled toward Cuba as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm on Sunday and was forecast to sweep into the central Gulf of Mexico as a large and powerful storm echoing Hurricane Gustav. Ike’s top sustained winds reached 135 miles per hour (215 kph), making it an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 on the five-step Saffir - Sarkozy to seek Russian breakthrough on Georgia
French President Nicolas Sarkozy will travel to Moscow on Monday to tell Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to comply with a month-old peace plan for Georgia or risk damaging relations with the European Union. Four weeks after Sarkozy brokered the ceasefire deal between Russia and its smaller neighbour, the West says Moscow has yet to honour half - India jubilant over nuclear trade waiver
NEW DELHI - India’s government and business groups were jubilant Sunday over a hard-won endorsement from nations that supply nuclear material and technology, a decision that paves the way for a landmark civil nuclear energy accord between India and the United States. India has been subject to a nuclear trade ban since it first tested an - Canadian PM calls early election
Canada’s Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper called an early parliamentary election for October 14, in a bid to break a political deadlock after two and a half years at the head of a minority government. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Sunday announced parliamentary elections, after warning for weeks that elections were inevitable to break a