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Bush assures Putin of cut in N-arsenal: Differences persist on NMD
WASHINGTON, Nov 14: US President George W. Bush told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday he would cut the US nuclear arsenal by two-thirds over 10 years, as the two leaders... 
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3,000 Palestinians attack police station
NABLUS, Nov 14: Around 3,000 angry Palestinians attacked a police station in the West Bank town of Jenin Wednesday in protest at the arrest of a leader of the military branch...
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Nepal govt assures Maoists of changes to constitution
KATHMANDU, Nov 14: Nepal’s government has said it will consider making changes to the country’s constitution in line with a demand by Maoist, officials said on Wednesday....
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Rally renews demand for statehood declaration
GAZA, Nov 14: Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets on Wednesday to renew calls for an independent state 13 years after their leader, Yasser Arafat, made a symbolic declaration of...
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Skopje tells cops to quit Albanian villages
SKOPJE, Nov 14: Macedonian police forces on Wednesday were ordered to pull out of ethnic Albanian villages where they had been sent on the weekend, angering residents and re-igniting fighting that...
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Six die of burns during Diwali
NEW DELHI, Nov 14: Six people burned to death Wednesday when a shop selling firecrackers caught fire while doing brisk business during the Hindu festival of lights in northern India, a...
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Dawn is worst hour for heart failure: study
ANAHEIM (California), Nov 14: Near the dawn’s early light is the most dangerous hour for women hospitalized with terminal heart failure, while men tend to die then as well as at...
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Pilots knew plane was in trouble two minutes after takeoff: board
NEW YORK, Nov 14: Aviation authorities said an initial analysis of the cockpit voice recorder from the American Airlines crash here showed the pilots knew they were in trouble within two...
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US forces cut off roads in south: Hunt for Osama is on: Rumsfeld
NEW YORK, Nov 14: US special forces cut off the main roads leading into southern Afghanistan on Wednesday to stop people as fleeing Taliban forces tried to melt into the countryside,...
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Unicef suspends Afghan aid after trucks seizure
ISLAMABAD, Nov 14: The UN children’s fund said on Tuesday it was suspending aid convoys to Afghanistan after some trucks and employees were seized by soldiers of the Northern Alliance....
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Egypt rules out sending troops
CAIRO, Nov 14: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday ruled out sending troops to Afghanistan as part of a US-proposed Muslim peacekeeping force, saying he feared they might return to Egypt...
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Afghanistan: a mosaic of tribes
KABUL, Nov 14: Afghanistan’s position at the crossroads of ancient trading and invading routes has turned it into a kaleidoscope of rival cultures and races whose only unifying factor is Islam....
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‘Sonic gun’ to tackle plane hijackers
PARIS, Nov 14: American researchers have developed a gun that can fire “sonic bullets” to incapacitate terrorists who try to hijack passenger aircraft, the British weekly New Scientist says....
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Algerian flood toll may rise to 1,000
ALGIERS, Nov 14: Rescuers feared the death toll from Algeria’s devastating flash floods could rise to 1,000 — nearly twice the current official toll — as emergency teams sifted on Wednesday...
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Beirut warns of response after Palestinian attack
SIDON, Nov 14: The Lebanese army command sternly warned on Wednesday that from now on it would respond to attacks from inside Palestinian camps, hours after a grenade was tossed at...
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Al Jazeera reporter says he was beaten, shot at
DUBAI, Nov 14: An Arab television reporter propelled to fame by the Afghan crisis said on Wednesday he narrowly escaped a US missile strike on his office in Kabul only to...
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No Afghan faction can cry victory
LONDON: The Taliban turned tail and fled so fast they left their dinner still hot on the front line. There was not even time for the eating of words between the...
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Bush, Putin may strike deal on ABM
LONDON: The three-day summit meeting between US President George Bush and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin that got underway in Washington on Tuesday has the makings of a truly historic event, marking...
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Biopiracy threatens world food security
GENEVA: Global food security is under threat from “bio-pirates” who take plants from developing countries, change them slightly then patent the new varieties, according to anti-poverty groups and activists....
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Somalia: terrorist haven or easy target?
MOGADISHU: Its cities shattered by war, its people facing a growing humanitarian crisis while clan-based warlords jockey for position in a proposed new government, Somalia is in many ways Africa’s Afghanistan....
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