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38 captured, 12 still on the run in Australia: Breakout from camp
WOOMERA (Australia), March 31: Twelve illegal immigrants were still at large on Sunday following the recapture of 38 others who escaped in a violent weekend breakout from an immigration detention centre... 
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World warns Israel not to harm Arafat
LONDON, March 31: World leaders warned Israel on Sunday not to harm Yasser Arafat as its troops closed in on the Palestinian president, and Pope John Paul said that war seemed...
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Missing N-scientist puzzles French cops
PARIS, March 31: When she disappeared last December, Laurence Alavoine was written off as another middle-aged executive who, it was thought at the time, had simply gone off on one of...
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Israeli army detains 60 after raid on village
RAMALLAH, March 31: The Israeli army on Sunday detained around 60 Palestinian young men in the West Bank village of Kobar, hometown of West Bank Fatah leader Marwan Barghuti, witnesses told...
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4 die, 210 injured in Taiwan quake
TAIPEI, March 31: At least four people were killed and more than 200 injured in a strong earthquake which rocked Taiwan on Sunday and forced a halt to construction here of...
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Queen Mother funeral on 9th
LONDON, March 31: Britain’s Queen Mother will be buried at Windsor Castle beside her husband King George VI, who died 50 years ago, after a ceremonial funeral on April 9, Buckingham...
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War declared on peace in ME: Pope
 VATICAN CITY, March 31: Pope John Paul, in his Easter message to the world, said on Sunday it seemed that war had been declared on peace in the Holy Land and...
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Israel obstructing relief work, says ICRC
RAMALLAH, March 31: Israel is preventing ambulances from evacuating Palestinians wounded by Israeli gunfire in the streets of Ramallah, an official of the Palestinian Red Crescent said on Sunday....
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Pakistani killed in anti-drug operation
JAKARTA, March 31: Two foreigners, one from Pakistan and another from Togo, have been killed during a police anti-narcotics operation here....
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A week of setback for US hegemony
WASHINGTON: It was a bad week for the aspiring global hegemonies around US President George W. Bush....
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Anti-Muslim sentiment overtakes Europe
COPENHAGEN: A wave of anti-Muslim sentiment has bolstered far-right parties in some European countries since Sept 11 and left the continent’s large communities of foreigners wondering how long their welcome will...
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ME: choice urgent, options broad
WASHINGTON: As Israeli tanks rumble and Palestinian suicide bombs explode in a struggle that looks more like war each day, increasing voices are asking what President Bush could do if he...
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Afghan ‘truth commission’ premature
UNITED NATIONS: It is premature to establish a UN-backed ’truth and reconciliation commission’ for Afghanistan with military action continuing in the country and the United States dominating international security issues, say...
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NASA man to set record
CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida): For NASA astronaut Jerry Ross, who this week will become the first person to leave the planet a record seventh time, space flight is getting to be like...
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‘No release for Al Qaeda men’
WASHINGTON: Defence Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has said that some Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters could continue to be imprisoned even after being tried and acquitted by US military tribunals, if...
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Blair executes last-minute U-turn on Iraq
LONDON: Tony Blair executed a last-minute U-turn on plans to publish a dossier of evidence against Saddam Hussein because he feared it would increase the frenzied speculation about an immediate war...
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