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US backed Al Qaeda in Kosovo: Milosevic: Chinese embassy bombing termed deliberate
THE HAGUE, Feb 15: Slobodan Milosevic told his war crimes trial on Friday “genocidal” U.S. forces had been the unwitting ally of Osama bin Laden in Kosovo, and demanded Bill Clinton... 
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Palestinians stone Arafat’s offices
RAMALLAH, Feb 15: Hundreds of angry Palestinians hurled stones on Friday at the offices here of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, demanding an end to “repression” and the release of prisoners....
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Bush plan angers allies, Democrats: Kyoto alternative unveiled
WASHINGTON, Feb 15: US President George W. Bush unveiled an alternative to the Kyoto climate change treaty he spurned last year, to the dismay of environmentalists who saw the plan as...
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Queen Mother leads Margaret’s funeral
 LONDON, Feb 15: Members of the British royal family have paid their last respects to Princess Margaret, the younger sister of Queen Elizabeth, who died last Saturday at the age of...
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US Congress launches probe into Sept 11 intelligence failure
WASHINGTON, Feb 15: The US Congress on Thursday launched a probe into intelligence failures that led to the Sept 11 terror attacks as allied troops in Afghanistan remained on high alert...
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Football fans turn violent in Kabul
 KABUL, Feb 15: Between 15 and 20 Afghans and three foreign troops were injured on Friday as angry mobs brawled outside Kabul’s football stadium during a match between Kabul United and...
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Pride of Israeli army blown up
TEL AVIV, Feb 15: The Merkava tank developed and built in Israel is one of the most modern tanks in the world....
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Iraq trip lands Haider into trouble
VIENNA, Feb 15: Austrian far-right strongman Joerg Haider could face jail after taking medical equipment to sanctions-hit Iraq during his visit this week, a government spokeswoman said Friday....
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Two die during underwater wedding
BANGKOK, Feb 15: A Thai man and a woman, both in their fifties, died at a mass underwater wedding held in Thailand’s southern Trang province on Valentine’s Day, local newspapers reported...
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Israelis fire at journalist’s car
PARIS, Feb 15: In a letter sent to the Israeli Chief of Staff, Shaul Moffaz, Reporters Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders - RSF) protested the Israeli’s army shooting at the car...
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UK aides resign after bid to ‘bury bad news’
LONDON, Feb 15: Two British government advisers resigned on Friday, Prime Minister Tony Blair’s office said, after their private feud boiled over into a public row over claims that one of...
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100 aliens held in Bangkok
BANGKOK, Feb 15: Thai immigration police said on Friday they had rounded up some 100 illegal immigrants from South Asian nations in a pre-dawn raid on Bangkok’s Little India....
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Bush stance on Iran jolts moderates
ISTANBUL: US claims that Iran is part of an “axis of evil” supporting international terrorism have damaged the country’s fledgling democratic reform movement and ignore the complex battle reformers are waging...
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Rebels balk as US targets Saddam
TEHRAN: The Bush administration is accelerating development of plans to topple Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. But the leader of one of the few credible armed Iraqi opposition groups says he doesn’t...
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Can the United States be defeated?
LONDON: Those who have argued that America’s war on terror would fail to defeat terrorism have, it turns out, been barking up the wrong tree. Ever since President Bush announced his...
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Climate policy to uphold status quo
WASHINGTON: President Bush for the first time has offered a detailed description of his vision for combating global warming, one that would gradually curtail greenhouse gas emissions by relying more on...
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Russians win option to army draft
NIZHNY NOVGOROD (Russia): In a dank, peeling corridor of the First City Hospital, rosy-cheeked, 24-year-old Vladimir Korochkin mops the ageing red linoleum floor with methodical gusto....
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Beijing uncertain about global role: experts
WASHINGTON: As China prepares to greet President George W. Bush during his state visit to Beijing next week, the country’s government and intellectual elite are deeply split about to deal with...
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