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US envoy shunning Northern Alliance
ISLAMABAD, Nov 17: Cracks in the relationship between Washington and the Afghan opposition alliance appeared to be widening on Saturday as US special envoy James Dobbins steered clear of Kabul during... 
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Russia counsels caution over peacekeepers
MOSCOW, Nov 17: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov called on the international community on Saturday not to rush into sending peacekeeping forces to Afghanistan, Interfax news agency reported on Saturday....
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Alliance inpeding political process: Zahir Shah’s complaint
ROME, Nov 17: Senior associates of former Afghan king Mohammed Zahir Shah on Saturday said the Northern Alliance was slowing down political efforts to piece together an ethnically diverse replacement for...
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Web terrorists are future threat: official
WASHINGTON, Nov 17: The United States faces a new age of terrorism, in which “Internet-savvy” extremists will target its critical computer-driven infrastructures from afar, a senior US official warned on Friday....
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Are Americans getting the full picture from TV news?
CHICAGO, Nov 17: Jingoistic, sugar-coated, one-sided — those are just some of the criticisms levelled at US television networks’ coverage of the conflict in Afghanistan in recent days — and not...
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Anti-anthrax machine made, claim scientists
BEIJING, Nov 17: Chinese scientists say they have developed a device capable of producing powerful electron beams that can destroy the potentially deadly anthrax bacteria in sealed mail....
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Security around Capitol tightened
WASHINGTON, Nov 17: For the first time since the 1968 riots sparked by the assassination of civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr, National Guard troops on Friday night began...
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New DNA testing system
TUZLA (Bosnia), Nov 17: A new DNA-testing system was tried for the first time here on Friday, helping identify two teenagers killed during the country’s 1992-95 war....
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Candidate shot dead in Lanka
COLOMBO, Nov 17: Gunmen shot dead on Saturday a Sri Lankan opposition candidate campaigning for the country’s parliamentary elections next month, police said....
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W. Bengal seeks own law on terrorism
KOLKATA, Nov 17: The communist government of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal said Saturday it will introduce its own bill to fight terrorism as the federal government struggled to...
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US groups flay decision to set up mly courts
NEW YORK, Nov 17: American civil libertarians, human rights groups and legal experts have castigated President Bush’s decision to use secret military tribunals to try suspected terrorists (not US citizens) in...
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10 kids die in Assam: Vitamin A overdose
GUWAHATI, Nov 17: Five more children died on Saturday in the northeast Indian state of Assam allegedly after receiving overdoses of vitamin-A under a UNICEF-backed anti-blindness drive, a state official said....
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Anti-globalization demos dog G20 moot
OTTAWA, Nov 17: Several groups of anti-globalization protesters took to the streets Saturday in Ottawa, where global finance ministers were meeting, a day after a small group of activists shattered store...
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Vulture downs plane
KATHMANDU, Nov 17: A Twin Otter aircraft loaded with emergency food supplies crashed in remote western Nepal after it was struck by a vulture on Saturday morning, an airport official said....
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First black African wins Miss World contest
 SUN CITY (South Africa), Nov 17: Agbani Darego of Nigeria won the 2001 Miss World contest on Friday at the Sun City resort in South Africa, saying the joy of victory...
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Dead Sea Scrolls published in full
NEW YORK, Nov 16: The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered with great fanfare in the late 1940s, have finally been published in their entirety, after decades of toil, controversy and scandal....
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Educated class best hope for Afghanistan
LONDON: For Afghans, only the formation of a stable, democratic government can justify the US air strikes and current instability. And the possibility of creating such a government rests not in...
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New challenge for Middle East peace
AL QUDS: Do Israelis and Palestinians really want to make peace with each other? That question is being brought to the fore painfully for both sides by the return to politics...
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Bush’s secret court: legal system under a veil
LOS ANGELES: There was a time when soldiers in war would be summarily executed after ‘drumhead’ trials. These were modest affairs, often occurring on a battlefield with a commander using an...
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Washington-Moscow big power politics gets personal
CRAWFORD (USA): It was an unusual image in the history of Moscow-Washington ties, even given that Khrushchev thing with his shoe. There was George W. Bush, in faded jeans, driving his...
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