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Lava engulfs Congo town: thousands flee: Rwanda city in danger
GOMA (Congo), Jan 18: A river of molten rock poured from a volcano in Congo on Friday, a day after it erupted, killing dozens, swallowing buildings and forcing hundreds of thousands... 
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Bush at odds with Riyadh over bases
WASHINGTON, Jan 18: US President George W. Bush wants to keep the US military presence in Saudi Arabia despite reported grumblings from the Saudis that the United States has overstayed its...
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India, US to share military intelligence
NEW DELHI, Jan 18: India and the United States on Thursday concluded an agreement to set up military cooperation between the two which among other things provides for the sharing of...
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Ecevit challenges West view of Islam
WASHINGTON, Jan 18: Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit has challenged and repudiated the view that democracy and secularism cannot exist in an Islamic society and cited his country’s own example to...
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Cheney spoke to Indians about Enron: White House
WASHINGTON, Jan 18: The White House disclosed on Friday that Vice President Dick Cheney spoke to Indian government officials last year about Enron investment in a $2.9 billion power project, but...
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Palestinians protest arrest of PFLP chief
GAZA CITY, Jan 18: Hundreds of people demonstrated across the Palestinian territories on Friday in protest at the Palestinian Authority’s arrest of radical leader Ahmed Saadat....
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Jewellery worth 500,000 euros stolen
PARIS, Jan 18: Three masked men rammed their car into a jewellery shop in Paris on Thursday and made off with jewels worth an estimated 500,000 euros, police said....
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9 Afghan hijackers jailed in Britain
LONDON, Jan 18: Nine Afghan men who hijacked a plane from Afghanistan and forcing the pilot to fly it to London in February 2000 have been jailed. Two of the main...
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US radical Olson jailed for 20 years
LOS ANGELES, Jan 18: Former US radical Sara Jane Olson was Friday sentenced to at least 20 years in jail for attempting to blow up two police cars 26 years ago,...
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US experts seek ban on cloning
WASHINGTON, Jan 18: Experiments to make cloned human babies are much too dangerous to try now and should be legally banned, with “substantial penalties” to those who disobey, scientists who advise...
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Bosnia hands over six Arabs to US embassy
SARAJEVO, Jan 18: Bosnian authorities handed over to the US embassy on Friday six Arabs who had been detained in the country on suspicion of involvement in terrorism but whose release...
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Five Russian soldiers killed
MOSCOW, Jan 18: Five Russian soldiers were killed and 13 wounded on Friday when an explosive device went off beside the truck they were travelling in in Makhachkala, capital of the...
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Pakistani sparks alarm on plane
ANKARA, Jan 18: A Turkish Airlines plane heading to New York returned to Istanbul on Friday because of suspicions over a Pakistani passenger, Anatolia new agency reported....
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Palestinians victims of Israeli revenge
RAFAH REFUGEE CAMP (Gaza Strip): At first it seemed that the roughly 600 Palestinian refugees left homeless in the cold and rain by Israeli bulldozers were victims of revenge. But it...
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US overstays welcome in Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON - Saudi Arabia’s rulers are increasingly uncomfortable with the US military presence in their country and may soon ask that it end, according to several Saudi sources. Such a decision...
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Clouds obscure Korean peace
LOS ANGELES: As South Korean President Kim Dae Jung nears the end of his term in office, a rare opportunity for progress toward meaningful peace on the Korean peninsula may be...
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‘Jaipur foot’ brings happiness to Afghan amputees
LONDON: As aid pours into Afghanistan, a special consignment from India is probably bringing more happiness to Kabul than the rest of the world’s cargo combined. Low-tech, cheap and rubbery it...
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Animals teach how to stay healthy
LONDON: The field researcher watching a couple of chimpanzees in Gombe national park in Tanzania noticed something odd. One of them, known as Hugo, had left the path and started picking...
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Gaps in human intelligence
WASHINGTON: The complicated phase of rounding up Al Qaeda leaders and eliminating pockets of resistance has illustrated gaps and limitations in the US antiterror arsenal. It underscores how even the most...
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Thailand’s monastries support poor
BANGKOK: “It was my own choice when I was twelve,” 17-year-old Nehn Aud recalled of his becoming a novice monk in Thailand. “But only because I couldn’t think of any other...
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