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US, allies considering doubling peacekeepers
UNITED NATIONS, March 5: With competing warlords threatening the peace in Afghanistan, the United States and its allies are considering doubling the number of foreign peacekeepers, perhaps under US command, diplomats... 
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EU, Japan threaten US with lawsuits: Bush imposes tariffs on steel imports
WASHINGTON, March 5: US President George W. Bush has decided to impose tariffs of up to 30 percent on steel imports for three years to protect the US industry, the White...
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Karzai to escort ex-king to Kabul
PARIS, March 5: On the last leg of his official visit to France last week, Afghan leader Hamid Karzai let it be known that not only does he welcome the return...
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VHP be declared terrorist: US forum
SAN FRANCISCO, March 5: American Muslim groups have denounced the massacre of Muslims in the Indian state of Gujrat and urged the US administration to declare the Indian extremist organizations as...
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Israel harassing newsmen: body
PARIS, March 5: Reporters sans Frontieres Secretary-General Robert Menard has sent out an SOS over the increasing intimidation that he says journalists are being subjected by Israel in their attempt to...
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Washington misjudgedAl Qaeda: governor
GARDEZ, March 5: The governor of Afghanistan’s eastern Paktia province said Tuesday that US forces had miscalculated the strength of Al Qaeda fighters in the mountains here....
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Imam of Ka’aba in coma
RIYADH, March 5: The Imam of Ka’aba, Sheikh Omar Bin Abdullah Al-Sebail, is in coma since meeting an accident last Friday. Shaikh Omar is one of the imams and khateebs of...
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Operation in ‘Vietnam’
Washington, March 5: Military analyst Donald Shepperd, a former US Air Force major general, said the death toll will only rise....
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Putin knew of secret service role in ’99 bombings: tycoon
LONDON, March 5: Russian President Vladimir Putin knew that Russia’s security service was behind a wave of bombings that killed hundreds and led to the war in Chechnya, exiled mogul Boris...
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EU plans to pool anti-terrorism intelligence
MADRID: Europe’s foreign affairs chief, Javier Solana, will take control of the EU’s first intelligence services office if member states agree to give him an unprecedented role in combating external terrorism....
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Riots expose cracks in India’s coalition
NEW DELHI: As the fiery communal riots in the Indian state of Gujarat shift from the cities to the villages, the Hindu-led central government has begun to assess the damage to...
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Capitol Hill divided on ‘terror’ war
WASHINGTON: Some five months into the ‘war on terrorism’, the first stirrings of discontent are appearing in Washington over how far to expand the conflict and even over basic goals of...
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To Britons Zimbabwe seems lost paradise
LONDON: The crisis in Zimbabwe as President Robert Mugabe bids to extend his 22 years of rule has enraged former colonial master Britain where people are overcome by a mix of...
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US aid to Georgia rankles Russia
MOSCOW: Georgian police have begun to surround the rugged Pankisi Gorge where suspected Al Qaeda fighters may be hiding out, while Georgia’s Army awaits the arrival later this month of up...
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