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EU-US differences over ME narrowing
BRUSSELS, March 10: European Union foreign ministers will meet Monday in Brussels to drum out measures aimed at putting an end to escalating violence in the Middle East, against a background... 
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Jordan, Turkey oppose US plan to attack Iraq
AMMAN, March 10: Jordan’s King Abdullah said on Sunday that any US attack against Iraq would have catastrophic repercussions on the oil-rich country and the Middle East region....
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Colombia on high alert as polls open
BOGOTA, Marchr 10: Thousands of troops and police were on high alert on Sunday as Colombians voted in congressional elections against the backdrop of fresh violence that followed the collapse of...
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Zimbabwe polls extended
 HARARE, March 10: Zimbabwe’s crucial two-day presidential elections were extended by another day when a judge ruled that thousands would be denied the right to vote if the polls were closed...
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France refused to bomb civilians: paper
PARIS, March 10: France has refused to allow its warplanes to attack some targets in Afghanistan assigned to them by US commanders during the last week, arguing that the missions endangered...
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Israel to upgrade 170 Turkish tanks
TEL AVIV, March 10: State-owned Israel Military Industries (IMI) has won a $700 million deal to upgrade 170 Turkish M-60 A1 tanks in the largest-ever arms deal between the two countries,...
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Man found guilty of killing cop
WASHINGTON, March 10: The leader of one of the largest Muslim groups has been found guilty in a March 2000 killing of a sheriff’s deputy and the wounding of another. Sentencing...
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Mexico breaks up drug group
MEXICO CITY, March 10: Mexican authorities have broken up a group believed responsible for smuggling as much as one-fourth of the cocaine consumed in the US, officials here said, after arresting...
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Four killed
KHOST, March 10: Gunmen attacked security guards outside the governor’s house in Khost near the Pakistani border on Sunday, killing four of them, Afghan officials said....
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America gears up for a new war
LONDON: This week, the US Vice-President, Dick Cheney, arrives in London at the beginning of 11-nation tour of Europe and the Middle East, on a mission to bolster support for America’s...
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Military action in Iraq not imminent: experts
WASHINGTON: Vice President Cheney’s ambitious 11-nation swing through the Middle East, which begins this week, has as one of its critical goals lining up a consensus on what to do about...
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Writer vows to defy court of law
NEW DELHI: In an episode unprecedented in its history, the Supreme Court was rebuffed by the Booker Prize winning novelist Arundhati Roy who reiterated her criticism for its insensitive approach to...
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Gujarat: voices of reason came too late
NEW DELHI: India’s civil society, based on the basic premises of pluralism and secularism, is facing a grave threat. While communal violence has not been unknown in independent India, what the...
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‘Bush legs’ is first casualty
LONDON: They’re pink, fleshy and pumped full of chemicals, but Russians devoured millions of them - until last Tuesday. Now dubbed ‘Bush legs’ by Muscovites, chicken drumsticks from the US were...
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Bahrain women gear up for first polls
MANAMA: Bahrain has spared its women an arduous fight for political rights by adopting a constitution that grants them the right to vote and stand for office in its first election...
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Three men sit to decide Zimbabwe’s fate
COOLUM (Australia): The Commonwealth is always full of surprises. Few expected an unlikely troika of Howard, Mbeki and Obasanjo to end up sitting in judgment on the conduct of the crucial...
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