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Argentine president, senate chief resign
BUENOS AIRES, Dec 31: Argentina will ring in the New Year in a power vacuum after the week-old president unexpectedly resigned amid widening political and economic turmoil.... 
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Year-end review: Sept 11 brought sea-change
LONDON, Dec 31: 2001 was the year when a single date — Sept 11 — seared itself into the collective consciousness and came to represent, for many, a sea-change in world...
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New strategy under study: US senator says Osama is alive
WASHINGTON, Dec 31: The head of the US Senate’s select committee on intelligence said on Sunday that fresh intelligence showed “high probabilities” that Osama bin Laden was still alive. He said...
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Moscow claims killing 73 Chechens
MOSCOW, Dec 31: Russian forces in Chechnya killed 73 guerillas, including a leading field commander and took 20 others prisoner in a large-scale operation, a Kremlin spokesman said on Monday....
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48 family members killed in SA accident
GROBLERSDAL (South Africa), Dec 31: Forty-eight members of a South African family were killed and 33 were seriously injured in a truck accident here, pushing the death toll on the country’s...
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Mehta dies in police custody
MUMBAI, Dec 31: Harshad “Big Bull” Mehta, the alleged kingpin behind one of India’s largest stock market scams, died on Monday of a heart attack while in police custody, police officials...
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Islamic code issue held up Afghan deal
KABUL, Dec 31: The issue of adherence to the Islamic code held up the expected signing of a deal on deploying foreign peacekeepers in Afghanistan, an interior ministry official said....
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Pakistan wins praise; India gets flak
ISLAMABAD: As India and Pakistan continued shelling each other on Sunday, and world leaders pleaded with the two nuclear powers to halt their military buildup, both nations found themselves in unfamiliar...
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Afghan leaders proving they can cooperate
KABUL: They sat on a couch in the Ministry of Martyrs and Disabled, four civil servants from Afghanistan’s main ethnic groups: a Pakhtoon, a Tajik, a Hazara and an Uzbek. They...
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Ferreting out US’s elusive enemies
WASHINGTON: Were there ever other international manhunts such as the United States is currently staging for Osama bin Laden? Well, yes. As a matter of fact, at least three come to...
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Cleanliness is in the genes
LONDON: It is a battle that transcends the ages. For generations, parents, grandparents and teachers have been trying to persuade, bribe and punish children into washing behind their ears. Now, it...
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Chronicling global peace
LOS ANGELES: A decade ago it seemed a neat idea to chronicle, at the Yuletide season, the progress of peace on earth. In 1991, it was a mixed bag. Iraq beaten...
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Euro: for better or worse
PARIS: Much ballyhooed in recent months, the Euro will become a daily fact of life Tuesday for 300 million Europeans who will at last take delivery of their new currency, and...
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Tests still ahead for cooperation on terrorism
WASHINGTON: In the three months since President Bush insisted that countries around the globe choose sides in the war on terrorism, several nations closely connected with terrorist violence have taken tentative...
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