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| October 9, 2001 | Tuesday | Rajab 21, 1422 |
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118 killed in plane collision at Milan
MILAN, Oct 8: At least 118 people were killed at Milan’s Linate airport on Monday in a runway collision between a Scandinavian Airlines SAS jet preparing for take-off and a small... 
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187 refugees rescued from sinking boat
SYDNEY, Oct 8: An Australian warship picked up 187 asylum seekers from a sinking Indonesian boat intercepted about 1,500 kilometres off western Australia on Monday, Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said....
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Pakistani, eight others die after UN copter downed
TBILISI, Oct 8: Nine people, including five UN observers and their interpreter, died on Monday when rebels shot down a helicopter in Georgia’s breakaway republic of Abkhazia, a senior Abkhazian official...
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Plane crash: kin slam ‘cover-up’
SOCHI, Oct 8: Distraught families of the victims of the Black Sea plane crash accused the Russian authorities on Monday of trying to cover up the causes of a mid-air explosion...
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Man saved after being ‘dead’ for 40 minutes
CAMBRIDGE, Oct 8: A surgeon at a hospital in the English city of Cambridge succeeded in bringing back a man from the dead after his heart had stopped for 40 minutes....
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Another anthrax case in Florida
TALLAHASSEE, Oct 8: A co-worker of the Florida man who died of anthrax last week has tested positive for the extremely rare disease that experts say could be used as a...
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Syria elected to UN Security Council
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 8: Syria, running unopposed, was elected on Monday to a non-permanent UN Security Council seat for 2002-2003....
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Saudi plane makes emergency landing
ROME, Oct 8: A Saudi Airlines passenger jet made an emergency landing at Rome’s main airport early on Monday after being warned a bomb might be on board, but a subsequent...
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Wisdom behind US response questioned
LONDON: On the day the twin towers crumbled, some said that a reflex counter-attack would come within hours. It did not. In the event, fully 26 days of intensive international pressure...
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Ambivalence in Arab world over strikes
ABHA (Saudi Arabia): The US-led bombardments underway in Afghanistan were met with ambivalence in the Arab world, which wrestled on Sunday night over whether the military action was a proper response...
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High-tech sticks and low-tech carrots
WASHINGTON: The United States launched a new kind of war in the skies over Afghanistan on Sunday: one that combined precision missiles and airdrops of food - high-tech sticks and low-tech...
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Discoveries put cancer under pressure
PARIS: Discoveries into the molecular mechanics of the cell, which were rewarded with the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday, have opened up a new front in the fight against cancer....
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Bush & Omar: poles apart
WASHINGTON: Rarely in history have President George W. Bush and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar whose destinies collided in battle on Sunday started their journey toward each other from so far...
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