Pakistan blast kills 19

A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police station in northwest Pakistan Monday killing at least 19 people, police said, in a new wave of attacks by al Qaeda- and Taliban-linked militants.

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Japanese back PM Kan

Wide margin than powerbroker Ichiro:

Nearly two-thirds of Japanese voters prefer Prime Minister Naoto Kan to powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa as Premier, media polls showed Monday ahead of a September. 14 ruling party leadership race that appears too close to call. The winner of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) leadership election is likely to be prime minister by virtue of the party’s majority in the powerful lower house and will have to cope with a strong yen, fragile economic recovery and deep structural woes.

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Attack on Iran will destroy attacker

Any attack on Iran would lead to the destruction of Israel, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during a visit to the Gulf Arab state of Qatar Sunday. “The US and the Zionist entity will not be able to hit Iran right now. This is a wish. Any Israeli attack against Iran means the elimination of the Zionist entity from the world map,” he told a new conference in Doha. He spoke in Farsi through an Arabic interpreter.

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