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Afghans cast adrift at sea saved by Iraqis
FAO (Iraq), Oct 29: Eighteen Afghans alleged on Monday they had been thrown out of Kuwait and cast adrift in Gulf waters in the wake of last month’s attacks on the... 
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War will not be over by Christmas, says Afghan opposition
JABAL SERAJ, Oct 29: The United States will not win the war in Afghanistan through airstrikes alone and cannot expect its military campaign to be over by Christmas, a senior anti-Taliban...
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Anthrax scare forces US judges to work outside
WASHINGTON, Oct 29: The anthrax scare forced justices on America’s highest court on Monday to hear legal arguments away from the Supreme Court for the first time since 1935 and closed...
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Double-pregnant Italian awed by ‘God’s gift’
ROME, Oct 29: An Italian woman who will give birth twice within the space of three months has described her incredible ordeal as “a gift from God.”...
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UK Muslims are joining Taliban, say papers
LONDON, Oct 29: The British media has reported that hundreds of Muslims from Britain, some of them from Pakistani origin, have travelled to Afghanistan to fight beside the Taliban....
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Lankan PM escapes bid on life; four killed
COLOMBO, Oct 29: Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister escaped assassination on Monday after his guards intercepted a suicide bomber who blew himself up and killed three other people in Colombo, officials said....
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Gunman kills four in French city
TOURS (France), Oct 29: A railway employee went on a shooting spree on Monday in the central French city of Tours, killing four people and wounding seven others before being shot...
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Taliban claim US using chemical arms
KABUL, Oct 29: The Taliban accused the United States on Monday of using chemical weapons and invited foreign observers to check the claim....
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Media may turn against war
LONDON: British ministers warned in the weeks between Sept 11 and the start of the bombing that there would be a wobble early in the campaign. There would be civilian casualties,...
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Bombing in Ramazan to test Arab support
WASHINGTON: Already under pressure to curtail the air campaign over Afghanistan, the United States is facing a crucial decision in coming weeks that will put its fragile partnerships in the Arab...
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Afghans won’t forgive US
GANIKHEL (Afghanistan): He squatted in the dirt, barefoot, in grimy grey clothes and a golden cap. The noonday sun was fierce but Mezhzakhan was shivering uncontrollably. He had been shivering for...
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Bush as unilateral as before
LOS ANGELES: In the weeks since Sept 11, an erroneous assumption has taken hold, both inside this country and abroad, about the foreign policy of the Bush administration. Let us call...
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Asian-Americans face victimization after Sept 11 attacks
NEW YORK: Jail Singh Chauhan, a pot-bellied and pleasant taxi driver originally from the Indian Punjab, says business has never been as bad as since last month’s terrorist attack here....
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S. Korean trial belies engagement with North
SEOUL: Just last year, when a group of South Koreans returned home from a mid-August trip to Pyongyang - a visit authorized by their own government - seven were arrested at...
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