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HR body calls for investigation : Gujarat killings
NEW YORK, March 13: The New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Wednesday called on the government of India to take all necessary and appropriate measures to prevent communal violence that... 
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West cries foul; Africa satisfied: Mugabe re-elected
HARARE, March 13: Zimbabwe’s longtime President Robert Mugabe swept back to six more years in office on Wednesday, but his opponent swiftly rejected the outcome of a vote which local and...
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‘Hijackers’ visas sent to school
WASHINGTON, March 13: Saying US President George W. Bush was “very displeased,” the White House on Wednesday launched an investigation into why the Florida flight school where two of the Sept 11 hijackers allegedly received training, received notices this week that their student visas had been approved...
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Israeli gunfire kills Italian journalist
 RAMALLAH, March 13: Israeli gunfire killed an Italian photographer in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, making him the first foreign journalist killed in 17 months of Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed,...
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Magazine rediscovers girl after 17 years
 WASHINGTON, March 13: For nearly two decades, National Geographic has been flooded with requests for information about a beautiful Afghan teenager with piercing green eyes whose cover image became one of...
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Hundreds of Arabs still in US jails
MIAMI, March 13: Six months after the attack on the World Trade Center, hundreds of Arabs remain detained in US prisons and the net has widened to include asylum seekers, some...
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US study finds racial disparity in health care
CHICAGO, March 13: Blacks enrolled in US managed care insurance plans receive poorer care than whites, perhaps because of factors such as education and income, researchers said on Tuesday....
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Al Qaeda trained Chechens: Moscow
WASHINGTON, March 13: Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov said here on Wednesday that there were unmistakable links between Al Qaeda and Chechen fighters, and some former Chechen officials had visited Afghanistan...
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Sharon using stupid tactics, says Arafat
PARIS, March 13: In an interview with French daily ‘Le Figaro’, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said that he plans to go to Beirut to attend the Arab League summit this month....
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Media giants fight over cable theft charges
LONDON, March 13: An escalating war of claims and counter-claims between two of the world’s top media groups provides a glimpse into digital cable theft, a crime that requires technical expertise...
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US must redefine its Afghan role
WASHINGTON: The time has clearly come to redefine US policy in Afghanistan. Afghan anger over civilian casualties is mounting, which feeds anti-American sentiment, undermines the pro-American interim government of Hamid Karzai,...
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Pentagon N-plan sends shivers around ME
LONDON: A secret Pentagon review of nuclear options has alarmed Middle Eastern “rogue” states listed as potential US targets and could even encourage them to acquire weapons of mass destruction, analysts...
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Tokyo irked by US stance on Kyoto
TOKYO: Coral reefs will die from water that’s too hot. Polar bears will have less room to roam, crowding some of them out of existence. Birds will start flying an extra...
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Tehran captivated by fiscal doom
ISFAHAN: During the years leading up to the Islamic revolution in 1979, Iranians distributed bootlegged tapes of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s angry sermons against the Shah. These days, the speeches of...
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Search on for Saddam successor
LONDON: The United States is orchestrating secret contacts between Iraqi opposition factions with the aim of finding agreement on a new leadership to replace Saddam Hussein....
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Israel raises anti-Semitism bogey before French polls
PARIS: The Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) has published a white paper which lists 405 “anti-Jewish acts” that the UEJF claims occurred in France during the 17 months between...
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