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11.05 pagi: Ejen pengundian PKR, Rodziah Ismail, sahkan nama pengundi dalam kedua-dua versi daftar pengundi di SK Seberang Jaya 2, adalah sama, hanya muka surat yang berbeza.
11.00 pagi: Ramai penyokong BN dan Pakatan di SK Sri Penanti sudah beredar. Hanya tinggal kira-kira 100 penyokong BN dan kira-kira 200 penyokong Pakatan yang masih kelihatan di situ. Anggota polis masih mengawal keadaan di situ.
10.52 pagi Calon Akim, Hanafi Mamat memberitahu Malaysiakini, beliau dalam perjalanan untuk melawat pusat pengundian di Kubang Semang.
Beliau menaruh harapan dan menegaskan, jika kalahpun “mesej kita sudah sampai kepada pengundi dan mereka boleh menilai”. 
10.42 pagi: Ketua Penerangan PKR, Tian Chua sedang berunding dengan pihak polis untuk memberi lebih masa kepada penyokong parti politik beredar.
10.42 pagi: Ketua Polis Pulau Pinang Datuk Ayub Yaakob tiba di tempat kejadian. Selepas berbincang dengan para pegawainya, polis mengarahkan penyokong kedua belah pihak supaya beredar. 
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The High Court has told British intelligence services to hand over relevant files to lawyers representing Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian and one-time UK resident, facing a US military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay. Mohamed is accused of plotting to trigger a radioactive “dirty bomb” on US soil, and could face the death penalty if found guilty.
The British judges set out their findings in a lengthy ruling, which offers a rare insight into the way British and American spooks have co-operated and, sometimes argued with one another, in the post-9/11 era. It sets out Mohamed’s progress through the parts of the US overseas prisoner system which are visible to the UK intelligence services - and highlights his two-year disappearance into the invisible, “dark” detention sector.
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MOSUL, Iraq, Aug. 25 (UPI) — Eleven suspected terrorists have been taken into custody by coalition troops in Iraq, including four allegedly planning to use poison, officials said Monday.
The four men suspected of planning poison attacks were captured Sunday in Beiji, south of Mosul, American Forces Press Service said. The report provided no details about the type of poison or method of attack involved.
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SILIGURI, Aug.24: Days after three children were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast at Shantipara in Siliguri, weeks after the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) raided a flat in Navi Mumbai after tracing the IP address of the persons who sent a threat e-mail minutes before the Ahmedabad blasts, and months after the police in Ghaziabad detained the owner of a cyber cafe from where an email claiming responsibility for the Jaipur blasts was sent, the authorities in Siliguri have not acted promptly.
They are yet to issue the guidelines, which they have already received from the West Bengal government, to the cyber café owners in the sub-division asking them to keep a detailed identity record of the customers and keep a close vigil on the activities of the customers while surfing the Internet. While a few Internet café owners in the town and its outskirts are keeping records of the […]

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A MAN disarms a robber wielding a sawn-off shotgun.
Another frees a seriously injured driver from his car just moments before it erupts in flames.
A small boy drowns trying to save his older sister floundering in rough seas. A police officer tackles to the ground a man who has doused himself in petrol and threatened to set himself on fire with a lit cigarette.
These are just some of the stories behind this year’s bravery awards, announced today.
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Beijing - Chinese Security forces detained 500 members of the ethnic Uighur minority in the Xinjiang region over the past two weeks, Uighur activists said Monday.
More than 100 people were arrested in the desert town of Kashgar alone, the in-exile Uyghur World Congress said. The organization called on the international community to lodge protests with Beijing.
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LONDON // Britain’s intelligence relationship with the United States is under increasing strain as a result of revelations from the High Court that agents from MI5, the British security service, colluded in the illegal interrogation of a terror suspect held by the Americans.
The terror suspect, Binyam Mohammed, an Ethiopian resident of Britain, claims he was pressured into making a false confession after being subject to torture.
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Canadian military officials are claiming a major victory after blowing up a Taliban command headquarters from which they say insurgents engineered the planting of explosives on the region’s major highway.
“The result of this operation, thus far, has been a huge blow to the enemy’s ability to plant major IEDs (improvised explosive devices) along Highway 1 in Kandahar,” Lieutenant-Colonel Dave Corbould, the commander of the Edmonton-based Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, told reporters on Monday.
More importantly, he said, it has hurt the Taliban’s ability to plan for future operations. “It has thrown them off balance and we will continue to maintain the momentum to keep them off balance,” said Col. Corbould.
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Manila, 25 August (AKI) - The Philippines government is not conducting an “all-out war” in the southern province of Mindanao despite a military offensive against the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front, President Gloria Arroyo said on Monday.
Arroyo gave the assurance in a speech at a groundbreaking ceremony of the Global Gateway Logistics City in Pampanga in the central region of Luzon.
“I say to the Filipinos, to the world, to our Muslim brothers in the south, to the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) through our Kuwaiti friends, there is no all out war,” the President said.
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