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| December 24, 2001 | Monday | Shawwal 8, 1422 |
New Argentine president stops debt payments
 BUENOS AIRES, Dec 23: Argentina on Sunday swore in an interim president who immediately suspended payments on crippling public debt to alleviate the poverty behind bloody riots that toppled the previous...
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Peres floats plan for statehood: Palestinians reject proposal
TEL AVIV, Dec 23: Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres has drafted an interim peace plan for a Palestinian state and presented the proposal to Palestinian leaders, Israel’s biggest newspaper reported on...
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BD head of state breaks protocol to meet Azad
DHAKA, Dec 23: Bangladesh President A.Q.M. Badruddoza Chowdhury, also a top physician of the country, in an unusual move broke the normal protocol and paid a courtesy call on the ailing...
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Jordan ready to fly Arafat to Bethlehem
AMMAN, Dec 23: Jordan is prepared to send a helicopter to fly Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to attend a Christmas mass in Bethlehem on Monday after the Israelis banned him from...
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Protest in Dhaka for release of journalist
DHAKA, Dec 23: Some 1,000 people took to the streets of Dhaka on Sunday to demand the release of a Bangladeshi journalist held for suspected treason....
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Religious web sites popular in US: study
WASHINGTON, Dec 23: God trumps money online, a study released on Sunday found, as more adult Americans use the Internet for religious purposes than for gambling, banking or trading stocks....
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Lanka seeks India’s ‘role’ in resolving Tamil issue
NEW DELHI, Dec 23: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said here on Sunday he was urging India to play its “crucial role” in bringing peace to the island, where the...
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Four killed in Nepal violence
KATHMANDU, Dec 23: Three Nepalese army soldiers and one Maoist activist were killed on Sunday when their truck went over a mine planted by suspected Maoists....
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FBI questions former Taliban minister
KANDAHAR, Dec 23: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is questioning ex-Taliban deputy defence minister Mullah Mohamad Fazil as it seeks Taliban head Mullah Mohammad Omar, a spokesman for the Kandahar...
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US Talib met Osama, claims weekly
NEW YORK, Dec 23: John Walker Lindh, the 20-year-old Californian who fought for the Taliban in Afghanistan, at one point lived in a secret camp where he attended a small meeting...
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Baghdad signs oil deal with Amman
BAGHDAD, Dec 23: Iraq and Jordan on Sunday renewed an annual oil agreement worth 700 million dollars under which Baghdad will supply the kingdom with its crude oil and by-products needs...
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Giuliani fears another calamity
LONDON, Dec 23: Outgoing New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said in an interview broadcast on Sunday he expects another attack on the city....
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Named ‘Person of the Year’
NEW YORK, Dec 23: Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, whose composure and compassion rallied New York and America after the Sep. 11 attacks, was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year on Sunday....
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India’s Chinese language paper shuts down
NEW DELHI, Dec 23: India’s only Chinese language paper, the Chinese Journal of India, has shut down, news reports said Sunday....
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US agents kept eye on Osama: paper
WASHINGTON, Dec 22: For four years prior to the Sept 11 terrorist attacks, the US Central Intelligence Agency paid a team of some 15 Afghan agents to regularly track Osama bin...
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FBI was warned of Sept 11 attacks: daily
WASHINGTON, Dec 23: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation was repeatedly warned about a month prior to the Sept 11 attacks that a fuel-laden airplane could be used as a bomb,...
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Russia reminds US of promise
MOSCOW, Dec 23: Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said on Saturday he was counting on the United States to stick to a promise to withdraw its forces from Central Asia once...
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Everything ‘changed forever’: poll
WASHINGTON, Dec 23: Most Americans think Sept 11 made 2001 a watershed in their country’s history but that the devastating attacks left the United States stronger, not weaker, according to a...
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Extending central authority’s writ key to Karzai’s success
KABUL, Dec 23: Of all the challenges facing Afghanistan’s new leader Hamid Karzai, extending his authority over a fractured country in the hands of warlords is one that will prove the...
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Legendary French diver dies at 74
ROME, Dec 23: Legendary French diver Jacques Mayol, who inspired the deep sea adventure film “The Big Blue”, was found dead after hanging himself in his Mediterranean home....
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