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Maoists kill 6 more cops in Nepal: Govt postpones move for emergency
KATHMANDU, Nov 25: Maoist rebels killed six policemen in Nepal, police said Sunday, a day after the rebels broke a ceasefire by killing at least 40 security personnel and civilians.... 
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Plane crash kills 24 in new airline tragedy
BIRCHWIL (Switzerland) Nov 25: Twenty-four people died when a Swiss plane crashed near Zurich, police said on Sunday, in a new blow to an airline industry reeling in the aftermath of...
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Singapore succession for Goh in place
SINGAPORE, Nov 25: Singapore’s political succession is now in place as Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong begins his last big mission: restore economic growth before stepping down as chief executive of...
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Britain plans new meningitis vaccine
LONDON, Nov 25: Britain is planning a new national immunisation programme to protect some 1.4 million children from a potentially deadly variety of meningitis, the Sunday Telegraph reported....
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UK in bid to break Turkey-EU deadlock
BRUSSELS, Nov 25: Britain will try on Monday to break a deadlock between Turkey and the European Union which is hampering efforts to build a European rapid reaction force for military...
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US offers India aid to check infiltrators
NEW DELHI, Nov 25: The United States has offered to assist India in checking the infiltration of guerillas from across the Line of Control in Kashmir by giving surveillance equipment, “The...
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Indian cops hold 250 BDs
KOLKATA, Nov 25: Indian police have arrested nearly 250 Bangladeshi Hindu migrants in the past three days for illegally crossing the border....
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US earmarks UK troops for Kandahar: report
LONDON, Nov 25: Allied commanders are finalising plans for British paratroopers to fight alongside American troops in Afghanistan, a Sunday newspaper said in a report which was played down by the...
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US, UK plan for war in Somalia, Sudan & Yemen: report
LONDON, Nov 25: The United States and Britain are planning to extend the war on terrorism to Somalia, Sudan and Yemen as soon as the campaign in Afghanistan is over, The...
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Jets ordered to bomb prisoners in Mazar jail: Foreign Taliban revolt
WASHINGTON, Nov 25: A bloody prison revolt on Sunday by hundreds of mostly foreign fighters captured in Afghanistan caused the first US combat death there when an American adviser was trapped...
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US, Kuwait holding ‘routine exercises’ near Iraq
KUWAIT CITY, Nov 25: US and Kuwaiti troops are preparing for routine joint exercises in the northern Kuwaiti desert near Iraq as part of a continued deterrent to Baghdad, a US...
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Arabs search for way to avert feared ‘clash of civilizations’
CAIRO, Nov 25: Arab intellectuals headed here Sunday for a conference aimed at helping to avert a widely-feared “clash of civilizations” between the West and Islam over the September 11 terror...
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Osama’s Uzbek ally dies in Kabul
TALOQAN (Afghanistan) Nov 25: An Islamic militant leader from Uzbekistan who was a longtime ally of Osama bin Laden was killed in northern Afghanistan, an anti-Taliban commander said on Sunday....
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Dostam appointed governor of Kunduz
KHANABAD, Nov 25: Northern Alliance ethnic Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostam’s forces are three kilometres outside the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, a Tajik commander said on Sunday....
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Rough road ahead for US plans in ME
WASHINGTON: Even after the Bush administration set the date and venue for last week’s long-awaited Middle East policy address by Secretary of State Colin Powell, officials remained unsure whether it would...
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US, EU diverge on next phase of war on terror
BRUSSELS: Where does the US-led war on terrorism go after Afghanistan?...
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US ‘nuts & bolts’ for India
NEW DELHI: Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes will be visiting the United States to continue the discussions he had with the Secretary of State for Defence, Donald Rumsfeld on the nuts...
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The hunt for Osama moves from Kabul to Mogadishu
KABUL: The building is a deserted shell. The mud-brick walls have crumbled. Its roof has been torn off by the massive blast that scattered debris and timbers across the courtyard. A...
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Russia, Nato mull risks, benefits
MOSCOW/BRUSSELS: Moves by Nato and Russia to boost ties to match their common fight against terrorism may face opposition both from some European allies and Moscow’s military, analysts said on Sunday....
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‘Awesome’ leader leads Maoists
KATHMANDU: The shadowy Nepalese leader whose Maoist group ended a truce with the government at the weekend calls himself Prachanda, which loosely translates as “awesome” or “majestically terrible”....
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