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German-US-Kuwaiti war games begin
KUWAIT CITY, Feb 17: Some 170 German army troops have arrived in Kuwait and have begun specialized nuclear-biological-chemical (NBC) warfare exercises with US and Kuwaiti troops a Kuwait military spokesman said... 
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Karzai backs stronger ISAF role in Kabul
KABUL, Feb 17: Afghanistan’s interim leader Hamid Karzai said on Sunday he would ask the multinational force in Kabul to take a stronger role if security does not improve in the...
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Scores of corpses found at US crematorium
WASHINGTON, Feb 17: Scores of decomposing bodies, which apparently had been earmarked for cremation, have been discovered strewn throughout a wooded area adjoining a southern US crematorium, US media reported Sunday....
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Calendar exposes politicians
GUWAHATI, Feb 17: A photographer in the Indian state of Manipur has earned public praise and some quick money for the novel way he chose to expose corruption rampant among politicians...
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Yemen warns US against attack on Iraq
CAIRO/AMMAN, Feb 17: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh was quoted on Sunday as warning the US that it would “lose its allies” in the region if it attacked Iraq....
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Israel sets up camps for troops in PA area
AL QUDS, Feb 17: For the first time since the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000, the Israeli Army has set up tents and portable housing for soldiers in...
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US army chief in India
NEW DELHI, Feb 17: The head of the United States’ armed forces arrived in India on Sunday and promptly declared warming military ties between the two nations as vital in the...
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French bid farewell to the franc
PARIS, Feb 17: The French on Sunday bid farewell to their franc, one of Europe’s oldest currencies, as the new single European currency replaces the old currency for good....
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25 killed after bus plunges off road in China
BEIJING, Feb 17: Twenty-five people were killed on Sunday when a bus plunged nearly 300 metres off a road in China’s southern Hunan province, the official news agency reported....
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Peace lobby sharpens rifts in Sharon ranks
TEL AVIV: The peace movement in Israel is gathering momentum again in defiance of expectations. Thousands rally in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square to demand that the government withdraw from the occupied...
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Grumpy people born that way
LONDON: Grumpy people seldom need reasons to be in a bad mood, but scientists have come up with the perfect excuse: they are born that way....
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Doubts mar case of American Taliban
SAN FRANCISCO: Skepticism about the strength of the case against John Walker, the so-called American Taliban fighter, is growing, but few legal analysts expect him to escape a long prison sentence....
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Time to end lapdog politics
LONDON: The most important political story of our time is the rise of the American Right and the near collapse of American liberalism. This has transformed the political and cultural geography...
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Canada chokes in stranglehold of US ‘security perimeter’
OTTAWA: The photograph on the front page of a national newspaper in late January looked straightforward: it showed Canadian soldiers hustling three captured Al Qaeda fighters from the back of an...
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Reforms ignite debate in Russia
MOSCOW: Murderous rampages by absconding soldiers have aroused growing concern about the parlous state of Russia’s military, igniting debate about conscription and a bold liberal blueprint to overhaul the country’s armed...
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Kurd wins free-speech case
ISTANBUL: Not every Kurdish man hauled before a Turkish security court on terrorism charges has a famous American intellectual like Noam Chomsky in his corner demanding to be declared a co-defendant,...
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