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Thousands protest against N-power: Demonstrations across France
TOULOUSE, Oct 20: Thousands of anti-nuclear protesters demonstrated across France on Saturday amid heightened fears of guerilla attacks on the country’s 19 nuclear plants after last month’s attacks on the United... 
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Two Kosovo Albanian moderates shot dead
PRISTINA (Yugoslavia) Oct 20: Unknown attackers shot dead two Kosovo Albanians linked to a moderate local political leader in the province on Friday evening, the UN and the politician’s party said...
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Arabs concerned over media attacks
RIYADH, Oct 20: There is concern, anguish and frustration here over Western media attacks on Saudi Arabia. Saudis are alarmed and think it may harm the 50-year strong, strategic ties between...
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Chinese hostage in Philippines freed
COTABATO (Philippines) Oct 20: Muslim guerrillas freed Chinese hostage Zhang Zhongyi, in exchange for promised “humanitarian assistance,” officials in the Philippines said Saturday....
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Russia to lease four Tu-22s to India for sea reconnaissance
NEW DELHI, Oct 20: India and Russia have agreed on concrete details on forging cooperation between them on military production for which there has been an agreement between the two in...
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US opposes breakup of Afghanistan, says adviser
ASHKABAD, Oct 20: Answering a question by Dawn here, Steven Mann, US presidential advisor on Caspian affairs and Laura Kennedy, Ambassador of USA in Turkmenistan said unanimously, “Thinking of splitting Afghanistan...
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US is not playing great game, says official
ASHKABAD, Oct 20: In response to a question by Dawn during a press conference, Steven Mann, US presidential advisor on Caspian energy affairs, said emphatically that United States is not playing...
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Frenchwoman to take her teddy to space
BAIKONUR (Kazakhstan) Oct 20: French astronaut Claudie Haignere will lift off for the International Space Station on Sunday accompanied by two Russian cosmonauts and her own personal mascot — a teddy...
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Police probe slaying of Arab vendor
LOS ANGELES, Oct 20: Authorities are investigating the slaying of a Syrian-born liquor store owner found shot dead late on Wednesday night in Sylmar....
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Students to get exam results via mobile phone
SINGAPORE, Oct 20: About 13,000 students at a Singapore school will get results of their exams through text messages on their mobile phones....
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Anthrax strains are identical, says Ridge
WASHINGTON, Oct 20: The anthrax strains discovered in Washington, New York and Florida are “indistinguishable” from one another, the US homeland security director said Friday as a New York Post employee...
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White tiger cubs die in Jakarta zoo
JAKARTA, Oct 20: Three white tiger cubs have died at a zoo here, the Jakarta Post reported on Saturday....
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US battle not going as well as planned
WASHINGTON: Two weeks into Washington’s military campaign in Afghanistan, President George W. Bush’s “war” against terrorism does not appear to be going as well as planned....
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UK’s human rights record under fire
GENEVA: The United Nations Human Rights Committee is concerned about the great number of racism claims filed against the British police and rights problems in the British territories in general, but...
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Bush foreign policy first casualty of terrorism war
LOS ANGELES: No matter what happens in the coming weeks and months to Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda, the Taliban or the luckless refugees of Afghanistan, the first casualty of the...
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Afghanistan a trap for unwary outsiders
WASHINGTON: As the Soviets conceded with their 1989 pullout and the British learned a century earlier, Afghanistan is a trap for unwary outsiders. Its very landscape - high mountains and isolated...
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Ecosystem destruction increasing natural disasters
WASHINGTON: The 1990s will go down as the decade of calamities despite being declared the “International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction” by the UN, says a report released here on Thursday....
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African leaders to fight poverty
BRUSSELS: A self-described “core group” of African countries says it is determined to help implement pro-poor policies throughout the continent by establishing a “peer review” system to monitor fiscal expenditures and...
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