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Reconstruction of Afghanistan to cost $15bn
MANILA, Jan 13: At least 15 billion dollars will be needed to rebuild war-torn Afghanistan in the first 10 years under plans that stress policy reforms and self reliance, say officials... 
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Israel loses $3.2bn due to intifada: bank
AL QUDS, Jan 13: The Palestinian intifada, or uprising, has cost the recession-hit Israeli economy 3.2 billion dollars, equivalent to economic growth of four percentage points, the Bank of Israel said...
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Chilling plot details stun Singapore
SINGAPORE, Jan 13: The surveillance of the target is detailed — the route of the bus carrying US military personnel, where the troops would be dropped off, where the explosives could...
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‘Golf assassination’ plan
SYDNEY, Jan 13: A video released on Sunday allegedly showed Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network training terrorists for a mass assassination of world leaders at a golf tournament....
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Singapore, Japan sign free trade accord
SINGAPORE, Jan 13: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his Singaporean counterpart Goh Chok Tong on Sunday signed a free trade agreement (FTA), the first ever for the world’s second biggest...
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Arafat tells Palestinians to stay ‘steadfast’
BEIRUT, Jan 13: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat called on Sunday on Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon to remain “steadfast” and vowed that all of them will return home to Palestine “very...
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Russians celebrate New Year
MOSCOW, Jan 13: With the fir tree still intact and traditional salads upon the table, Russians will toast the New Year once again on January 14, obedient to the Julian calendar...
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Cyrus Vance dies at 84
WASHINGTON, Jan 13: Former US secretary of state Cyrus Vance, who resigned two decades ago over the government’s aborted attempt to rescue American hostages in Iran, died on Saturday at the...
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Political conflict over Al Quds
BEIRUT: “A provocative act by a group of lunatics” such were the words used by UNESCO’S special envoy to Al Quds the French-American Oleg Grabar to describe the symbolic placing a...
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US treatment of POWs offends code of justice
LONDON: Imagine the scene. A group of alleged Irish terrorists is seized and handed over to the British Government by a third country. They are held without access to any lawyers....
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Swaziland’s state-of-art solar panels in schools
MBABANE (Swaziland): Not in her wildest dreams had head teacher Busi Lukhele imagined that the dark corridors of her rundown and shunned primary school in the remote Swazi village of Mphaphathi...
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Disputed election can’t rile Zambians
LUSAKA: The new information minister is a confessed drug trafficker. While nearly three-quarters of the population earns less than a $1 a day, the new foreign minister was cleared of involvement...
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Exposing refugees to torture
OTTAWA: The Supreme Court of Canada has concluded that refugees may be deported to their home countries, even if they face torture upon return, if they are deemed to pose a...
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Malaysia’s security concerns
PENANG (Malaysia): Walking along the narrow streets here, lined with road-side stalls catering to teeming crowds tucking into their favourite spicy dishes, it is difficult to guess that suspected terrorists could...
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Afghanistan’s politics of native tongues
KABUL: Officer Mohammad Aref spends his days directing swarms of traffic around one of Kabul’s busiest intersections, where old cars spew exhaust and lurch between pedestrians. But he is thrilled to...
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Prince Harry
LONDON, Jan 13: Prince Harry, the second son of Prince Charles, has undergone rehabilitation in a London clinic after regularly smoking cannabis and drinking alcohol, the British Sunday tabloid News of...
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