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Singapore Muslims told to mend ways: Premier wades in on scarf controversy
SINGAPORE, Feb 18: Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong has warned local Muslims against asserting their own identity and involving outsiders in a campaign to allow the wearing of Islamic headscarves in... 
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Plot to steal diamonds worth £200m foiled
 LONDON, Feb 18: Four men were handed long jail terms on Monday after being found guilty of plotting what British police said would have been the biggest heist in history....
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French outbursts annoy US
PARIS, Feb 18: After French Foreign Minister Hubert Vedrine, criticized in recent days by US officials for his characterization of American foreign policy as being over-simplistic, it’s now the turn of...
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EU slaps sanctions on Zimbabwe
BRUSSELS, Feb 18: European Union foreign ministers unanimously agreed on Monday to go ahead with sanctions against President Robert Mugabe’s regime and to pull EU election observers out of Zimbabwe....
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US may seek Omar’s extradition: magazine
WASHINGTON, Feb 17: The suspected mastermind of the plot to kidnap Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is the target of an active grand jury investigation in the United States, and...
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Bush visit stirs violent protests in South Korea
SEOUL, Feb 18: South Korean police commandos swung on ropes down the side of a skyscraper on Monday to storm a US business office occupied by radical students opposed to a...
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How honest is Blair?, asks press
LONDON, Feb 18: The British press on Monday raised questions about the honesty of Prime Minister Tony Blair who has failed to shrug off allegations of sleaze in connection with government...
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US mulls intervention in kidnap cases abroad
WASHINGTON, Feb 18: The Bush administration has adopted a new policy that would mandate federal review of every overseas kidnapping of an American to determine whether US intervention is warranted, the...
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Al Qaeda bills helping in probe : weekly
WASHINGTON, Feb 18: US investigators have obtained billing records for a satellite telephone used by Osama bin Laden and his closest associates in the late 1990s and are using them to...
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Moroccan wins right to wear veil
 MADRID, Feb 18: Classmates cheered as a Muslim girl at the centre of a row over her right to wear a headscarf to school arrived wearing a hijab on Monday after...
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British navy ‘invades’ Spanish beach
ALGECIRAS (Spain) Feb 18: A commando of the British Royal Navy “invaded” a Spanish beach by accident during a military exercise....
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Cracks appearing in Israeli national unity
Al QUDS: Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, back at work after recovering from a weeklong flu, faced a barrage of criticism Sunday for failing to find a military or diplomatic solution...
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Europe firmly opposed to attacking Iraq
BERLIN: US allies in Europe are deeply fearful that the Bush administration is moving inexorably toward a military clash with Iraq, and while they are being blunt in their opposition, they...
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Sharon govt losing control
KARNEI SHOMRON (West Bank): A devastating wave of Palestinian attacks on the symbols of Israeli military occupation - a Jewish settlement, an army base and a road block - struck Israel...
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British peacekeeping troops’ reputation under threat
LONDON: The reputation of Britain’s peacekeeping force in Afghanistan was under threat on Sunday night after claims that a party of Afghans rushing a pregnant relative to hospital were shot at...
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Bombing Baghdad: a failed option
LONDON: To prevent Terrorism by dropping bombs on Iraq is such an obvious idea that one cannot think why no one has thought of it before. It is so simple. If...
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