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Terrorism sponsors to be expelled: Commonwealth adopts ‘action plan’
COOLUM (Australia), March 2: Commonwealth leaders agreed at their summit in Australia on Saturday to expel any member state that aided, financed or harboured terrorists.... 
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120,000 march in Rome against Berlusconi
 ROME, March 2: At least 120,000 left-wing demonstrators took to the streets of Rome on Saturday to protest against Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, accusing him of running Italy to further his...
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Chirac, Jospin vie for ‘pro-US’ label
PARIS, March 2: Now that they’ve officially announced their candidacies, France’s two presidential hopefuls, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin and incumbent Jacques Chirac, have been battling it out on a number of...
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Madagascans defy martial law
ANTANANARIVO, March 2: Residents of the Madagascan capital defied martial law on Saturday to welcome the new government of self-declared president Marc Ravalomanana, singing, dancing and giving thanks to God....
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Qadhafi rejects Saudi plan
SYRTE (Libya), March 2: Libyan leader Moamer Qadhafi on Saturday unveiled a plan for Arab-Israeli peace in exchange for three conditions, including the right of Palestinians refugees to return to their...
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Patch-up with whites was mistake, says Mugabe
BULAWAYO (Zimbabwe) March 2: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Saturday his internationally lauded policy of reconciliation with whites after the country’s independence was a mistake....
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Edward, wife quit careers to help Queen
LONDON, March 2: Queen Elizabeth’s youngest son, Prince Edward, announced on Saturday that he and his wife Sophie would give up their controversial business careers to support the Queen during her...
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US to train 1,500 Georgians
TBLISI, March 2: Around 1,500 Georgian troops will be trained by US military advisers under an agreement announced as part of international efforts to combat terrorism, Georgian Deputy Defence Minister Guela...
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Health situation in Palestinian areas catastrophic: NGO
PARIS, March 2: Two leading officials of French NGO Medecins du Monde (Doctors without Borders) have launched an SOS with regard to the sanitary situation of Palestine, saying that the health...
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Jewish settlements threat to ME peace
WASHINGTON: One of the consequences of the Palestinians’ attacks on Israel over the past 18 months has been to draw attention away from the wrongheaded policies of the Israelis....
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Osama no longer relevant to Pentagon
WASHINGTON: Exactly 146 days after the US military launched its war on terrorism, Osama bin Laden, the man most called by President Bush as the “evil-doer” remains at large - a...
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TB may ravage Asia again
BANGKOK: The increasing number of tuberculosis (TB) patients being detected among the elderly in Japan and Singapore has triggered an alarm within the public health community in East Asia....
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China shaken by Bush’s stand on Taiwan
BEIJING: When Chinese President Jiang Zemin and US President George W Bush swapped greetings on the 30th anniversary of the release of the Shanghai Communique on Feb 28, the celebratory tone...
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Sharon will satisfy no one
WASHINGTON: Most of the Israeli prime minister Ariel Shaorn’s televized speech last Thursday was a poorly delivered pep talk, asking Israelis to keep a stiff upper lip in the face of...
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UN decries child abuse by its aid workers
UNITED NATIONS: Secretary-General Kofi Annan expressed outrage on Wednesday over reports of widespread child abuse at the hands of relief workers in refugee camps in West Africa....
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America’s ‘black’ propaganda
WASHINGTON: “Dezinformatsia” (disinformation) - department D of the KGB since about 1959, and later mimicked by the CIA. Disinformation goes beyond misinformation to planting information, source concealed, that pretends to be...
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5 cops killed in Nepal clashes
KATHMANDU, March 2: Five policemen and nine Maoist rebels were killed as Nepal’s government stepped up its campaign against the guerillas trying to overthrow the Hindu monarchy, officials said on Saturday....
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Cuban breaks into US mission
HAVANA, March 2: A young Cuban man broke into the US diplomatic mission in Havana on Saturday, but left soon afterward, just days after 21 men stormed the Mexican Embassy in...
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