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Kandahar fighting killed 1,000: agencies: Taliban barricaded in hospital
KABUL, Dec 11: About 1,000 bodies, the victims of fighting between Taliban and opposition forces, are believed to be lying around Kandahar airport, humanitarian sources in Kabul said on Tuesday, citing... 
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Another defence scam rocks Vajpayee govt: Over-priced caskets for Kargil dead
NEW DELHI, Dec 11 Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s coalition government was facing a fresh threat on Tuesday over a new defence scandal after caskets meant to carry the remains...
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Goals are yet to be achieved: Rumsfeld
WASHINGTON, Dec 11: Three months after the Sept 11 terrorist strikes on the United States, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday US forces had yet to achieve their goals...
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India looking for big deals
NEW DELHI, Dec 11: India and Afghanistan’s interim administration on Tuesday intensified talks over cooperation, with New Delhi pledging support to the reconstruction of the war-ravaged nation, officials said....
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Way cleared for EU-wide arrest warrant
ROME, Dec 11: Italy caved into massive pressure from its European Union partners on Tuesday and said it would lift its veto on an ambitious EU-wide arrest warrant that has been...
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Corruption cases filed against Hasina
DHAKA, Dec 11: The Bangladesh government filed two corruption charges on Tuesday against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, accusing her of plundering 126 million dollars of state funds while in office,...
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Israel admits PA fighting hardliners
TEL AVIV, Dec 11: Top Israeli officials told US envoy Anthony Zinni during a security meeting on Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority (PA) police had started making real progress in...
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Russia not to send troops: FM
MOSCOW, Dec 11: Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov confirmed on Tuesday that Russia would not be sending its forces into Afghanistan as part of a UN stabilization mission....
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Frustrated MP leaves Labour
LONDON, Dec 11: In a rare setback to Britain’s ruling party, a backbencher in the Commons abandoned it on Monday to join the Liberal Democrats, the political group largely consigned to...
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Showdown averted in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Dec 11: Sri Lanka’s President Chandrika Kumaratunga on Tuesday agreed to shed her key defence portfolio and head off a potentially dangerous standoff with her arch rival, new Prime Minister...
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Asians must show ‘primary loyalty’ to UK: body
LONDON, Dec 11: The police, central and local governments, media and the inward-looking Asian communities have all been blamed for last year’s race riots in northern England by an enquiry committee...
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Thicket of hurdles awaits Kabul govt
NEW DELHI: The ink has hardly dried on the Bonn agreement between non-Taliban Afghan leaders for a 29-member, “broad-based” interim administration led by Hamid Karzai. But it has already run into...
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Hamas, PA collaborate to keep Mideast peace
GAZA CITY: “The Sheikh is doing fine,” says a burly and bearded bodyguard outside the simple home of Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the Hamas movement, “but nobody is allowed...
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Migration is good business all round
LONDON: One of the many hidden consequences of the events of Sept 11 has been to change the nature of the debate in many parts of the world about race, asylum...
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Media’s dilemma of propaganda vs news
UNITED NATIONS: International journalists ponder their role and responsibility in covering conflict, whether in Afghanistan or the Middle East. US media - and television in particular - came in for a...
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Getting at terrorism’s roots
WASHINGTON: The largest gathering of Nobel Peace Prize laureates ever was held in Oslo, Norway this past weekend. The subject of Sept 11 and terrorism was seldom far from their lips...
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