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Afghan prisoners accuse US troops of excesses
WASHINGTON, Feb 11: Afghan men who were misidentified by US military forces as Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters said they were beaten during their capture and imprisonment at a US base...
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Jordanian-American sentenced to death
 AMMAN, Feb 11: Jordanian-American Raed Hijazi was sentenced to death on Monday in Jordan for conspiring to plot “terrorist” attacks on US and Jewish tourists but acquitted of links to Osama...
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Cell phones lower kids’ brain activity: experts
OSLO, Feb 11: Just a few minutes’ chatting on a mobile phone reduces the brain functions of children for almost an hour, according to new Spanish test results quoted in Norwegian...
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Australians to have dual citizenship
CANBERRA, Feb 11: All Australians will be allowed dual citizenship under changes set to go to parliament this week to cater for growing numbers who live overseas....
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US picks ex-general to lead Iraq: paper
DUBAI, Feb 11: Former Iraqi army chief of staff General Nizar Khazraji has been picked by the United States to run Iraq after the overthrow of President Saddam Hussein, a newspaper...
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Mbeki escapes unhurt in accident
JOHANNESBURG, Feb 11: South African President Thabo Mbeki’s official car was involved in an accident on Monday, but the head of state was unhurt and went on to work at the...
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11 Maoists killed in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Feb 11: At least 11 Maoist rebels were killed in clashes with security forces in Nepal, the defence ministry said on Monday, as Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba declared there...
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$6.5m stolen at Heathrow airport
LONDON, Feb 11: Robbers escaped with 6.5 million dollars worth of currencies in a raid at London’s Heathrow Airport early on Monday after an inbound flight from Bahrain, police said....
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Good-luck trees and astrology
NEW DELHI, Feb 11: Citizens in western India looking for good fortune are seeking advice from astrologers to find lucky trees for their gardens, a news report said Monday....
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Kidney for a home
BELGRADE, Feb 11: Having three functional kidneys could help a poor Serbian factory worker to finally get a home of his own, presuming he finds a buyer for his surplus organ,...
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German philosopher turns 102
HEIDELBERG, Feb 11: German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer celebrated on Monday his 102nd birthday in frail but good health and mentally alert. The name of Gadamer, born Feb 11, 1900, is often...
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India’s criminal calendar
NEW DELHI, Feb 11: Police in the northern Indian city of Gorakhpur have elevated wanted criminals to calendar models in order to bring them to justice, reports said on Monday....
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Russia killed civilians before attacking Chechnya: Maskhadov
MOSCOW, Feb 11: Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov said on Monday that evidence should soon emerge that Russian secret services staged a wave of deadly apartment bombings to start the war...
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Arafat: a phoenix ready to rise again
RAMALLAH: About the time Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon began his fourth White House powwow in a year, Yasser Arafat was tucking into a bowl of vegetable soup at his headquarters...
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Washington’s atrocities in Afghanistan
URUZGAN (Afghanistan): Afghan villagers who were misidentified by US military forces as Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters said they were beaten and kicked during their capture and subsequent imprisonment in what...
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Hi-tech checks for CV liars
LONDON: The days of embellishing your curriculum vitae with exaggerated qualifications, impressive job titles and unlikely tales of outlandish foreign adventures could soon be over....
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Milosevic trial: a warning to dictators
THE HAGUE: Soon after 9:30am on Tuesday, a thick-set man with a distinctive brushed-back grey quiff will enter Court No 1 in The Hague, flanked by two blue-uniformed United Nations guards....
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Common ground for China-US ties elusive
BEIJING: The visit by a US president to China right in the beginning of the Year of the Horse should be seen as an auspicious sign for the country in the...
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Internal dissent in Israel
LONDON: Salim Shawamreh’s house in Anata, a couple of miles east of Al Quds, has been demolished by the Israeli authorities three times, on a series of bureaucratic pretexts. Jeff Halper,...
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Bush govt planting seeds of its own undoing
WASHINGTON: Five months after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, President George W. Bush appears more determined than ever to forge a new world order based on unrivalled...
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