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13 killed as blasts rock Thai arsenal
PAK CHONG (Thailand) Oct 25: Thirteen people were killed and at least 60 injured on Thursday when massive explosions tore through a Thai army weapons warehouse, ignited by a truck which... 
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128 still missing in Swiss tunnel blaze
AIROLO (Switzerland) Oct 25: At least 11 people are dead and 128 missing one day after a truck crash sparked an inferno in a road tunnel through the Swiss Alps, officials...
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Ruling party wins in Singapore polls
SINGAPORE, Oct 25: Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party (PAP) won a fresh five-year mandate on Thursday without a vote being cast after it stood unopposed in two-thirds of the seats up...
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Mishra to visit BD
NEW DELHI, Oct 25: India’s National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra will leave for Dhaka on Friday for talks with the newly elected government of Khaleda Zia, amid growing concern here for...
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UN asks Jakarta to probe claims police forced refugees onto boat
JAKARTA, Oct 25: A senior UN official Thursday urged Indonesia to investigate claims that police forced asylum-seekers onto a boat which sank killing some 350 people, as police said “rogue” officers...
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XP to dwarf memories of 95, says Microsoft
 LONDON, 25 Oct: U.S. software giant Microsoft on Thursday officially launched Windows XP, the latest version of its flagship product, vowing it would be twice as big as Windows 95 amid...
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3 bodies pulled from Kursk
MOSCOW, Oct 25: Russian investigators recovered the bodies of three members of the doomed Kursk’s 118-man crew on Thursday after making their way inside the submarine for the first time since...
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Uzbekistan opens border for Afghans
TASHKENT, Oct 25: Uzbekistan has agreed to open its border with Afghanistan for the first time in three years to let the United Nations deliver emergency aid to hundreds of thousands...
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70pc of Kandahar, Herat populace have fled, says UN
CHAMAN, Oct 25: Afghan refugees reaching Chaman are recounting horrific experiences as they flee the mounting conflict between US warplanes and the Taliban....
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US senate passes bill to give police more powers
WASHINGTON, Oct 25: The US Senate passed an anti-terrorism bill on Thursday giving the government expanded police and surveillance powers in response to the Sept 11 terror strikes on the United...
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Anthrax surfaces at State Dept
WASHINGTON, Oct 25: A new case of anthrax surfaced in the United States and another was suspected on Thursday as scientists gleaned new insight into the particularly lethal sample of the...
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US pressure forces Israel to quit town
TEL AVIV, Oct 25: Israeli forces withdrew from a besieged West Bank village on Thursday as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, facing intense US pressure, called a high-level meeting to consider a...
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Washington’s campaign faces rough going
PARIS, Oct 25: The United States says its war on terrorism is proceeding as planned, but nearly three weeks into its military offensive in Afghanistan it is running up against tough...
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Clinton gets suspicious vials in mail
WASHINGTON, Oct 25: Former US president Bill Clinton received vials in the mail tainted by salmonella, but authorities said on Thursday they saw no connection to a string of anthrax attacks...
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Shah’s second wife dies in Paris
 PARIS, Oct 25: The second wife of the late Shah of Iran, Soraya, has died in Paris, police said on Thursday....
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S. Asia on short fuse over Afghanistan
NEW DELHI: Barely a week after US Secretary of State Colin Powell visited New Delhi and Islamabad to counsel restraint upon the leaders of Pakistan and India, the South Asian rivals...
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Bush reluctant to put pressure on Israel
WASHINGTON: Shimon Peres had been in Condoleezza Rice’s office for about 15 minutes, mournfully explaining to the national security adviser the latest downward twist in the news from his country, when...
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Al Jazeera deserves respect
LOS ANGELES: The Western monopoly on global news production has met its first serious challenge from a Third World source. The improbable upstart is Al Jazeera, a 24-hour Arabic language satellite...
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Islamic values to be taught in Germany’s schools
BERLIN: Germany’s education officials are increasingly concerned about how best to prevent alienation of the country’s three million Muslims. The voices calling for Islam to be offered alongside the Protestant and...
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US opposing another treaty
LONDON: While the US wrestles with the reality - and the imagined horror - of biological terror, Washington’s refusal to agree to a system to monitor compliance with the Biological Weapons...
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