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US to deport men from countries with Al Qaeda cells
WASHINGTON, Jan 8: US. authorities are preparing to search for thousands of men in the United States from countries with active Al Qaeda cells who have ignored orders to leave the... 
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US leans toward Israeli version of arms seizure
WASHINGTON, Jan 8: The United States on Tuesday leaned toward accepting Israeli allegations that Palestinian officials had been involved in trying to smuggle 50 tonnes of weapons seized last week and...
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3 Taliban ministers surrender
KANDAHAR, Jan 8: Three former Taliban ministers have surrendered to Afghan authorities in Kandahar province, a spokesman for provincial governor Haji Gul Agha said on Tuesday....
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Rain brings relief to Australian firemen
SYDNEY, Jan 8: The two weeks’ old bushfires in the most populous Australian state of New South Wales, that had almost reached Sydney fringes a few days ago, are still burning....
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US forum deplores Advani’s visit
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 8: The Pakistan American Democratic Forum (PADF) on Tuesday denounced the visit of Indian Home Minister, L.K Advani to the United States....
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Hamas man injured in arrest bid by police
GAZA STRIP, Jan 8: A member of the radical Islamic movement Hamas was shot and slightly wounded while trying to escape arrest by Palestinian security officials in Gaza City on Tuesday,...
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Nazir Ali tipped for top Anglican post
 LONDON, Jan 8: Pakistan-born Rt Rev Michael Nazir Ali is among the leading candidates to replace George Carey as archbishop of Canterbury, who on Tuesday announced he was retiring as leader...
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Al Qaeda still poorly understood: US envoy
KABUL, Jan 8: The United States is still in the dark over the inner workings of Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda network, US presidential envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad admitted on Tuesday....
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Radioactivity on Swedish vessel
STOCKHOLM, Jan 8: At least one person has been exposed to high levels of radiation and dozens of others may have been put at risk by a leaking iridium shipment from...
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Iraq asks Iran to return its planes
BAGHDAD, Jan 8: Iraq’s foreign minister is to visit Tehran to discuss the return of Iraqi aircraft grounded in Iran since the Gulf War, a local newspaper said on Tuesday....
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Is S. Asia headed for a nuclear conflict?
NEW DELHI: With prospect of a nuclear war poised for the first time at the doorstep of India and Pakistan, concerned ordinary citizens are speaking out passionately on a subject that...
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Israel further suffocates Palestinians
KALANDIYA CHECKPOINT (West Bank): Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is confined by Israel to the tiny self-rule enclave of Ramallah. Yet he makes Palestinian statehood sound like it is just around the...
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Radically different car of the future
DETROIT: It has the chassis of a skateboard and a control system used by the Jetsons. And if it works, it would be the first major change in car design and...
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Poverty hits Indonesian children most
BEKASI (Indonesia): On a chilly Monday morning, 11-year-old Sudarsono is busy scavenging for any type of garbage he can sell and make some money. As he picks up a dirty plastic...
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Iran: realization of a dream of women’s freedom
LONDON: I believe we all have a responsibility for other people in other lands and I want to see developing countries get a fair share of the global cake, while retaining...
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50 die in bus crash in Nigeria
KANO (Nigeria), Jan 8: Fifty people, most of them members of a wedding party, have died after a horrific head-on collision between two buses in northern Nigeria, officials said on Tuesday....
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Burundi troops to quit Congo
KINSHASA, Jan 8: Burundi has agreed to pull its troops out of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where it helped fight a three-year war involving half a dozen nations, a...
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Ottoman fort near Makkah demolished
RIYADH, Jan 8: Saudi authorities have demolished an Ottoman fortress on a hill overlooking the Grand Mosque in Makkah to make way for a major housing project, a Saudi source said...
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