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Indian govt fails to end communal violence: Two dead, mosques burnt
NEW DELHI, March 17: Two people died in riots on Sunday despite efforts by Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee to cool tempers amid opposition pressure over a radical Hindu drive... 
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Nepal army kills 68 rebels in offensive
KATHMANDU, March 17: At least 68 Maoist rebels were killed by Nepali troops on Sunday in a major offensive against the guerrillas fighting to topple the Himalayan kingdom’s constitutional monarchy, the...
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Cheney finds no support
DUBAI, March 17: US Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday took his tour to Bahrain and Qatar after hearing Saudi complaints about the situation in the Palestinian territories and Saudi refusal...
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Barcelona march ends in rioting
BARCELONA, March 17: A march of hundreds of thousands of anti- globalists ended in street battles on Saturday when around 1,000 violent demonstrators clashed with police here, news reports said....
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US pressure on LTTE for peace in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, March 17: The United States has stepped up pressure on Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels to fall in line with a Norwegian-backed peace bid or face a major international crackdown,...
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Minister may quit if Blair backs Iraq strikes
LONDON, March 17: A British government minister said on Sunday the United States would be foolish to attack Iraq and hinted she would resign if Prime Minister Tony Blair, Washington’s staunch...
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Al Qaeda leader nabbed in Sudan: report
LONDON, March 17: A Libyan on the United States’ list of most wanted terrorists who is believed to be a senior member of Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda terrorist network has...
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Iraq rallies opposition to US attack
TUNIS, March 17: Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Aziz arrived in Tunisia on Sunday as part of a North African tour aimed at rallying opposition against possible US strikes on Iraq...
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War on Saddam is doomed: British army
LONDON: Britain’s military leaders issued a stark warning to Tony Blair on Saturday that any war against Iraq is doomed to failure and would lead to lives being lost for little political gain....
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ME: distant peace, uncertain ceasefire
RAMALLAH: Gunfire echoes through the streets of Ramallah the morning after Israeli withdrawal. It is a salute to victims of the three-day incursion who can only be buried now....
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Vajpayee’s sigh of relief
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court judgment on the Ayodhya dispute forbidding any form of religious activity on the 67 acres of land has come as a boon to the Vajpayee government....
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Silicon Valley in Vietnam
HANOI: High literacy, a large emigre community with technical expertise and costs half those of India are drawing a growing list of multinationals to outsource software development to Vietnam, according to...
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Nigerians fight to bridge ‘diversity in unity’
LAGOS: The crowded Lagos suburb of Idi-araba is still a ghost of its old self - weeks after ethnic violence erupted on its bustling streets....
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INS gives visas to dead ‘terrorists’
WASHINGTON: Faced with the embarrassing news that a Florida flight school had belatedly received visa approval notices for two dead Sept 11 hijackers, the Immigration and Naturalization Service hastened to make...
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