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NATO fails to seize Karadzic in raid
SARAJEVO, Feb 28: NATO troops failed on Thursday to arrest top war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic during a raid on a tiny village in southeastern Bosnia where the Bosnian Serb war-time... 
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Confusion in Washington over captives in Cuba
WASHINGTON, Feb 28: As the prisoners while away the weeks in their flyblown cages at Camp X-Ray, Washington’s government lawyers are in a state of confusion and embarrassment, having so far...
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Chirac opposes proposal: Peacekeepers outside Kabul
 PARIS, Feb 28: French President Jacques Chirac told visiting Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai on Thursday he had doubts over deploying the international security force in Afghanistan beyond the capital Kabul....
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Israel plans to occupy more land: S.Arabia
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 28: The Saudi ambassador to the United Nations, Fawsi Shobokshi, surprised diplomats on Wednesday by accusing Israel of rejecting peace and planning to occupy more Palestinian land....
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White House blames Clinton for unrest
WASHINGTON, Feb 28: The White House on Thursday blamed former president Bill Clinton’s last-ditch push for Middle East peace in late 2000 for the bloody unrest that has wracked the region...
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Hamid Karzai recalls his days in Paris
PARIS, Feb 28: Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai spent his first day in Paris reminiscing about the academic year spent in France back in 1985-1986, when he was a student at...
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Bush govt behaving arrogantly, says paper
WASHINGTON, Feb 28: The United States is unrepentant over the mistaken raid on compounds in Afghanistan’s Hazar Qadam village in which at least 16 civilians were killed....
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Abdullah determined to move forward: EU
RIYADH, Feb 28: Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, who had an hour-long meeting with the visiting European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana on Wednesday, expects the Arab League summit to back...
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Terrorism must be destroyed, says Powell
WASHINGTON, Feb 28: US Secretary of State Colin Powell on Wednesday expressed America’s “rededication” to the objective of fighting terrorism....
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Declassified documents contradict Kissinger version on China visit
NEW YORK, Feb 28: The newly declassified documents on the former US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger’s visit to China in 1971, which signalled a major shift in US policy towards...
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Saudi plan solid base for peace
DUBAI: It is being billed as the most important peace plan in the recent history of the Middle East conflict and is backed by all parties concerned, even though its specifics...
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US aid to warlords doomed to backfire
LOS ANGELES: Some in Washington and elsewhere argue that aid should also continue to flow to the warlords operating around Afghanistan’s periphery. A strong centralized government may be impossible, they warn,...
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Sudan’s cargo of human misery
ED DAEIN (Sudan): As the Arab horseman thundered towards him, six-year-old Wol Bol feared for his goats. But when he was swept up across the raider’s saddle, the little Dinka boy...
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Milosevic’s trial threat to Balkans’ detente
WASHINGTON: As Slobodan Milosevic has gone on trial in The Hague on 66 counts of war crimes, he has brought to the process the evil, manipulative cunning with which he once...
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Sharon fails to deliver security
BEIRUT: No matter how brutal, it is now clear, Sharon cannot deliver on his promise. Perhaps the Israelis are beginning to realize that is happening on the ground is their own...
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Washington dumping technological waste abroad
WASHINGTON: Huge quantities of scrap electronics are being exported from the United States to China, Pakistan and India, where the waste is causing environmental and health problems, according to an investigation...
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