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1,000 refugees clash with police in Australia
ADELAIDE (Australia) March 29: Police in riot gear clashed with demonstrators who broke into Australia’s notorious Woomera immigration detention centre on Friday after pulling down its razor wire fencing.... 
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EU, Moscow throw weight behind Arafat
LONDON, March 29: World leaders threw their weight behind Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on Friday, calling for international action to quell escalating violence in the Middle East....
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Israelis beginning to think of leaving country
OCCUPIED AL QUDS, March 29: Streets in Israeli-occupied Al Quds were mainly deserted on Friday, as Israelis heeded warnings of further Palestinian attacks and stayed away from public places usually bustling...
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‘Axis of evil’: Bush says ‘I meant it’
CRAWFORD, Texas, March 28: President George W. Bush said Thursday he has a message for critics unhappy that he lumped North Korea, Iran and Iraq in an “axis of evil” that...
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3 US troops killed during training
FORT IRWIN (California), March 29: Three US soldiers were killed in a live-fire training accident at Fort Irwin, California, on Friday, the third fatal US military accident on the home front...
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US forces able to intervene anywhere: Pentagon
WASHINGTON, March 29: Pentagon officials made it clear Thursday that US forces, despite their involvement in Afghanistan and the global war on terrorism, were ready and capable of undertaking any mission...
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Ahmedabad under curfew for Holi festival
AHMEDABAD, March 29: An indefinite curfew was imposed in parts of Ahmedabad and soldiers patrolled the streets on Friday to prevent communal clashes during the Holi festival....
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Italy not taking US warning seriously
PARIS, March 29: The US Embassy in Paris has issued a travel warning with regard to possible terrorist activity against US targets in Italy. The advisory warns US travellers of a...
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30 feared dead in Nigeria clashes
LAGOS, March 29: At least 30 people were feared dead and scores injured in fighting between rival groups in an oil producing area of southwestern Nigeria, a newspaper reported on Friday....
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Film director Billy Wilder dies at 95
 LOS ANGELES, March 29: Director Billy Wilder, who went from being a refugee from Nazism unable to speak a word of English to the creator of such classic American films as...
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Female superior
NEW DELHI, March 29: A female superior slapped an insubordinate male officer so hard she put him in a southern Indian hospital in the town of Madurai....
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US initiative for ME stuck in limbo
WASHINGTON: After a week of both staggering bloodshed and intriguing offers from the Arab League and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, US peace efforts in the Mideast remained dependent on the...
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Has Sharon started endgame to oust Arafat?
TEL AVIV: Israel’s assault on Yasser Arafat’s presidential compound on Friday fuelled speculation that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has started an endgame to oust his long-time foe....
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Arabs make history
BEIRUT: A united Arab world on Thursday offered normal relations with the Jewish state for the first time since its creation in 1948, rallying behind a peace plan at a time...
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‘Rogue state’: ill-defined phrases of no use
LONDON: In order to get beaten up by the United States, a country has to be two things: a “rogue state” and a possessor (or potential possessor) of “weapons of mass...
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Italy in fascism’s shadow
ROME: Has Italy ever been a real democracy? After unification in 1860, a political elite ruled by manipulating a tiny electorate, and by repressing all dissent. Most men were not given...
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‘Anti-terror’ coalition to stay in Kyrghyzstan
MANAS (Kyrghyzstan): The anti-terrorist coalition has established a long-term base 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) north of Afghanistan in the Central Asian republic of Kyrghyzstan....
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N. Korea sounds out Russia over N-power
MOSCOW: North Korea, one of George Bush’s “axis of evil” states, is sounding out Russia over contracts to build a nuclear power plant in an attempt to escape the curbs on...
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