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6 German warships dock in Djibouti: Anti-terror watch
DJIBOUTI, Jan 27: Six German warships arrived in Djibouti on Sunday where they are to dock following a surveillance mission in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden under the... 
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Iran, Iraq ties warming after years of hostility
 TEHRAN, Jan 27: Iraq’s foreign minister is on a ground-breaking visit to Iran aimed at resolving the fate of thousands of refugees and prisoners of war (PoWs), which has been the...
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New Saudi rules for expats below 40 years
RIYADH, Jan 27: Saudi Arabia has banned foreigners under 40 years of age from working in thousands of shops selling female perfumes, accessories and shoes in the kingdom, a newspaper reported...
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Tareq Aziz visits China, Russia
BEIJING, Jan 27: Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz arrived in China on Sunday, the state-run Xinhua news agency said, after a trip to Russia where he sought support in his...
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UK’s new air control centre takes off
LONDON, Jan 27: Six years later than expected and way over budget, Britain’s new hi-tech air traffic control centre finally began operating on Sunday, but its launch will mean up to...
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Ammunition dump blasts spark chaos in Lagos
LAGOS, Jan 27: A street market fire spread to an army ammunition dump in Lagos on Sunday, sparking a series of heavy explosions that rocked the city and sent residents fleeing...
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Last Russian base in Cuba closed
HAVANA, Jan 27: The last Russian military base in Cuba, a vast electronic listening post south of Havana, was closed down late last year, Cuban Defence Minister Raul Castro announced on...
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Hindu leaders march on Delhi, demand temple
NEW DELHI, Jan 27: Fundamentalist Hindu leaders on Sunday met Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to demand that the government hand over a disputed piece of land in Ayodhya where they...
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Mild quake revisits Gujarat
BHUJ, Jan 27: Bhuj, the epicentre of a devastating earthquake in Indian’s Gujarat state, was revisited by a mild tremor on the first anniversary of the temblor, officials said Sunday....
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Death of key witness pointing fingers at Sharon
BEIRUT: A former Lebanese Christian warlord, Elie Hobeika, whose militia carried out the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian refugees in Beirut in 1982, died instantly along with three bodyguards when a...
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HR groups petition against Israeli army
AL QUDS: Two human rights groups, one Israeli and one Palestinian, have petitioned the High Court here to disallow the so-called targeted assassinations of Palestinian fighters by the army. In a...
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Hunger, vengeance haunt Afghanistan
MASLAKH CAMP (Afghanistan): The old woman rose up out of the dust, her black chaddar unwinding behind her, like an apparition in slow motion, and moved towards the road. “Food,” she...
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Powell, Bush differences over prisoners’ status
WASHINGTON: In an apparent break with the White House, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell has asked President Bush to ensure that international rules of war govern the treatment of 460...
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Muslims at mercy of ordinary Americans
LOS ANGELES: Cabbie-passenger relations in New York have never been perfect, what with midtown traffic and differences over routes and tips....
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Biotech weapons worse than nuclear arsenal
NEW DELHI: Governments concerned about nuclear proliferation should be more worried by the greater potential for mischief that biotechnology holds in military and criminal minds, say members of an international panel...
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US the odd man out of peace in Colombia
BOGOTA (Colombia): Swaying along bumpy roads to Colombian peace talks with Marxist rebels, tour buses packed with foreign diplomats must pass a garish billboard-sized drawing of a US boot crushing Latin...
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