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Turkey’s Kurdish rebels declare ceasefire

ANKARA (AFP) — Turkey’s rebel Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on Saturday ordered a unilateral ceasefire effective October 1 in operations against the Turkish military. “The only path to resolve the region’s problems is through democratic dialogue, and to give life to a democratic and modern system that respects national or …

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Children face perils of bomblets in Lebanon

NABATIYAH  — From a hospital bed, 14-year-old Hassan tells how half his foot was blasted away by one of the million bomblets that Israel rained on south Lebanon during its war with Hizbollah. “I ran across a small object hidden in the vegetation,” the teenager says from his bed in …

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