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Germany to let in skilled immigrants: Opposition resents move
BERLIN, March 22: Germany’s parliament approved a controversial immigration law on Friday, but opposition conservatives staged a walkout in protest, saying its adoption was unconstitutional.... 
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Washington ties aid to reform: Anti-poverty summit
MONTERREY (Mexico), March 22: US President George W. Bush urged leaders at a UN-anti-poverty summit here on Friday to require poor nations seeking aid to enact political and economic reforms, vowing...
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Thatcher finally silenced, but not by enemies
LONDON, March 22: Margaret Thatcher, the formidable Iron Lady who changed Britain for ever during a decade as prime minister, has finally been silenced — though by illness, not her political...
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World economy a huge casino: Castro
MONTERREY (Mexico), March 22: The current world economic order fosters plunder and genocide and should be overhauled, Cuban President Fidel Castro declared here on Thursday in a hard-hitting address to a...
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Vajpayee faces delicate balancing act
NEW DELHI: The secular allies of the BJP led coalition have virtually served notice on the BJP leadership that if it did not rein in the Vishwa Hindu Parishad from carrying...
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British woman wins right to die
LONDON, March 22: A British woman paralysed from the neck down on Friday won the right to die “peacefully and with dignity” in a landmark case that puts patients’ wishes first....
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3 stabbed to death in Gujarat
NEW DELHI, March 22: In a fresh outbreak of communal violence, three persons were stabbed to death in Baroda on Friday, prompting authorities to reimpose indefinite curfew in six localities, said...
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Arafat intent on going to Beirut
PARIS, March 22: Yasser Arafat says that he is definitely planning on being in Beirut in March 27 for the Arab League summit. “I am the president of the Independent State...
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4 BD troops killed in Sierra Leone
DHAKA, March 22: Four Bangladeshi army personnel have died in a road accident while taking part in a UN Mission in Sierra Leone, a defence ministry statement said here on Friday....
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US fails to oust chief of C-arms agency
THE HAGUE, March 22: The executive of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) rejected on Friday a US motion to oust the Brazilian head of the international agency....
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Fernandes postpones Russia visit
MOSCOW, March 22: India’s Defence Minister George Fernandes has postponed a four-day visit to Moscow that was due to begin on Sunday, the Indian embassy said here on Friday....
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Tobacco firms may have undermined anti-smoking talks
LONDON: World Health Organisation officials fear tobacco companies have undermined international talks to curb smoking after confidential documents detailed how British American Tobacco paid a middleman up to US dollars 350,000...
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50 years of aid with little to show for it
LONDON: When the UK’s finance minister Gordon Brown called for a new Marshall Plan for the world’s poorest countries last December, urging rich countries to double their aid spending, the response...
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Syria to support Saudi plan
BEIRUT: Syria is poised to join the Saudi Middle East peace proposal at next week’s Arab League summit in Beirut, after persuading Arab states to adjust the plan to meet its...
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Taliban fish have swum away
LONDON: So you think you know what’s happening in Afghanistan?...
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Pro-France Algerian fighters feel abandoned
PARIS: Although it marked the 40th anniversary of the end of its war with Algeria, March 19 came and went once again this year, with France still refusing to officially celebrate...
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Calculus of murder in former Yugoslavia
LONDON: Patrick Ball — who gave evidence at the war crimes trial of Slobodan Milosevic last week — is an expert on the mathematics of murder....
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Turkey to take command of ISAF
LONDON: Turkey will take over command of the international security force in Kabul from Britain, but only after the April 30 deadline set by the UK defence secretary, Geoff Hoon, London...
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