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Israel calls off West Bank pullout
AL QUDS, Oct 27: Israel said on Saturday it was postponing indefinitely a scheduled withdrawal of its troops from Bethlehem and a neighbouring Palestinian town because of continuing violence.... 
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Albanian group claims attack
SKOPJE, Oct 27: The Albanian National Army (ANA), a shadowy organisation which says it is fighting for a Greater Albania in the strife-torn southern Balkans, has claimed responsibility for an attack...
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Montenegro plans vote on referendum: Talks with Yugoslavia fail
BELGRADE, Oct 26: The president of Montenegro and his Yugoslav counterpart agreed on Friday that a referendum should be held on independence for the tiny republic, after talks on its future...
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Jakarta searching for hijacked boat
JAKARTA, Oct 27: Navy search efforts for a missing Indonesian boat seized by some 170 illegal Middle Eastern immigrants and forced to sail to Australia were fruitless for a third day...
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5 Abu Sayyaf members killed in Philippines
ZAMBOANGA (Philippines) Oct 27: Five members of the Abu Sayyaf Muslim kidnapping group were killed and two soldiers wounded in clashes in the southern Philippines island of Jolo on Saturday, the...
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Poll campaign in Lanka
COLOMBO, Oct 27: Campaigning kicked off on Saturday for parliamentary elections in war-torn Sri Lanka that are expected to be violent and accompanied by widespread accusations of ballot stuffing....
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Jiang’s heir apparent steps forward
MOSCOW, Oct 27: China’s heir apparent Hu Jintao, the little known vice president being groomed to take over as leader from Jiang Zemin next year, stepped onto the world stage on...
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Man tried in Palme case says ‘I killed him’
STOCKHOLM, Oct 27: The man convicted and later acquitted of the 1986 murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, Christer Pettersson, confessed Saturday to the fatal shooting in a letter written...
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State Dept halts mail for diplomats abroad
WASHINGTON, Oct 27: The US State Department has halted its mail service to foreign diplomatic posts, and is screening its buildings for anthrax after a man handling its post was infected...
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Investigators play down Osama link: Anthrax attacks
WASHINGTON, Oct 27: Top investigators believe that the anthrax attacks on Washington, New York and Florida that have held America in thrall for the past fortnight are likely to be the...
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Curfew in Indian town: 7 Muslims die
MUMBAI, Oct 27: A western Indian town was tense on Saturday a day after police fired on a crowd of Muslims when a campaign for a boycott of US and British...
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Toxin levels at WTC very high: agency
NEW YORK, Oct 27: Toxic chemicals and metals are being released from fires and rubble in the ruins of the World Trade Center at levels sometimes exceeding US government safety standards,...
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Riyadh trapped between US criticism and public unease
RIYADH, Oct 27: Saudi Arabia is snared between sharp US criticism for allegedly not doing enough in the US-led campaign against global terrorism and a public at home that does not...
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NGO asks US to stop dropping of landmines
GENEVA, Oct 27: The International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) on Saturday urged the United States to halt the dropping of landmines in its military campaign against Afghanistan, and called on...
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US copter went to save Haq, say officials
KABUL, Oct 27: The Taliban said on Saturday they were searching for a man believed to be an American who had been travelling with executed opposition commander Abdul Haq....
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Illusions of a quick US victory dashed
SALANG PASS (Afghanistan): Any illusion that this would be a quick war in Afghanistan is being dashed by events on the ground this week. There are signs here - and in...
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Afghanistan: tough task for UN
WASHINGTON: Simply handing off all or parts of Afghanistanto the UN once the bombing stops would be a terrible idea. The nation-building ability of the UN rests on certain conditions being...
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Arab anger to nullify support for coalition
DAMASCUS: It is not any more the anti-terror battle scenes of the rough mountains in Afghanistan the Arab world is watching but rather Israel’s assaults on Palestinians in the occupied territories...
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Neo-Nazis behind anthrax: writer
SANTIAGO: Neo-Nazi groups in the US may be behind the anthrax-by-mail attacks occurred in recent weeks in that country, said Chilean journalist Razl Sohr, expert in defence issues and international policy....
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Bush-Putin Star Wars agreement went unnoticed
LONDON: The silky, clown-like suits sported at photocalls by George Bush and Vladimir Putin at last weekend’s Shanghai summit of Asian and Pacific nations were misleading. Behind the scenes, the US...
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