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Attack on Iraq is unavoidable: US official’s warning
MUNICH, Feb 4: A senior adviser to United States Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld indicated war with Iraq was likely even if Baghdad backs down and allows inspectors back in to... 
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Indian Muslims protest crackdown on madaris
KOLKATA, Feb 4: Thousands of Muslim protesters marched through Kolkata on Monday over plans by the Marxist government of West Bengal state to regulate madressas following the recent attack outside the...
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Hitler’s secretary recalls final days
BERLIN, Feb 4: Traudl Junge witnessed one of the most dramatic scenes of the 20th century — Adolf Hitler’s final hours in his fortified bunker under Berlin where the dictator committed...
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Bush must identify real dangers: Russia
WASHINGTON, Feb 4: Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said on Monday Russia would help the United States to identify threats like those cited in President George W. Bush’s “axis of evil”...
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Hezbollah fires on Israeli warplanes
TYRE (Lebanon), Feb 4: Lebanon’s radical Hezbollah group said it had opened fire on Monday at Israeli warplanes violating the country’s airspace in the south for the third time in five...
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Powell rules out imminent strike
WASHINGTON, Feb 4: US Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday backed President George Bush’s reference in last week’s State of the Union message to Iran, Iraq and North Korea as...
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Two Singapore schoolgirls suspended for wearing scarves
SINGAPORE, Feb 4: A school in Singapore on Monday suspended two Muslim schoolgirls for wearing headscarves in defiance of a government rule, as criticism of the policy mounted from Malaysia....
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Paris seeks repatriation of nationals from Cuba
PARIS, Feb 4: France’s Justice Minister Marylise Lebranchu has told the American authorities that France is “very concerned” about the fate of French Taliban incarcerated at the Guantanamo, and that it...
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US-EU differences over foreign aid
LONDON: It will be this year’s first international test of commitment by the world’s richest countries towards helping poorer nations. When finance ministers from the G7 wealthiest countries meet in Ottawa...
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BJP using nationalism to win elections
NEW DELHI: With world attention still focused on international terrorism following the Sept 11 attack on the United States, Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is trying to cash in on...
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Afghans selling children for food
SIYA SANG (Afghanistan): Rahim Dad had eight mouths to feed, and the drought had stolen his crops, his oxen and his goats, so he sold the most valuable asset he had...
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Drugs of the future may extend human life
LONDON: Scientists have pinpointed the Methuselah gene - a stretch of DNA that confers healthy old age on men and women - raising the prospect that researchers may one day be...
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Awami League lying low after poll defeat
DHAKA: Awami League (AL) president and the leader of the opposition in parliament Sheikh Hasina does not want to launch any serious agitation against the government before reorganizing the party. ...
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Australia’s inhumane treatment of refugees
WOOMERA (Australia): Landing on Australia’s remote Ashmore Reef in an overcrowded Indonesian fishing boat after days at sea, Iranis Reza and Maryam thought they had found refuge after a tortuous journey...
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Israeli atrocities sowing hatred in Palestinian hearts
RAMALLAH: Ahlam Nasser was sitting in her ambulance here when the first shots were fired, a mixture of tear gas and rubber bullets. Hunched behind the windscreen, she stared ahead as...
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PC users join drive on anthrax
QXFORD, Feb 4: The owners of hundreds of thousands of home computers are being asked to use the idle capacity of their PCs to help develop an effective treatment for the...
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3 caught while trying to enter nuclear plant
GRAVELINES (France), Feb 4: Three Sri Lankan immigrants were found Monday hidden inside a truck carrying radioactive equipment as the lorry was entering a nuclear power plant in northern France, the...
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Titanic survivor turns 90
LONDON, Feb 4: The youngest survivor of the Titanic celebrated her 90th birthday at the weekend, with a party for friends and family and an orchestra to play her favourite tunes,...
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