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Israeli reservists oppose occupation
TEL AVIV, April 1: Israeli army reservists who have refused to serve in the Palestinian territories took out a newspaper ad on Monday to say they will not participate in a... 
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Anti-Israel demos turn violent
CAIRO, April 1: Anti-Israeli protests were dispersed by riot police using batons and tear gas in Egypt and Jordan on Monday, as angry demonstrations erupted across the Arab world to denounce...
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Chicken can lay eggs with a little extra: study
WASHINGTON, April 1: Sheep that produce human proteins in their milk, goats that can be milked for spider web proteins, and other genetically engineered animals just got some competition — chickens...
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Scholars defend suicide attacks
CAIRO, April 1: Two top Arab religious leader have justified Palestinian suicide bombings against Israelis....
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Don’t blame family for Osama’s ‘act’: brother
LOS ANGELES, April 1: Breaking the family silence that the bin Ladens’ had maintained since Sept 11 attacks, Abdullah bin Laden, one of Osama’s 53 siblings, says the bin Ladens’ should...
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Synagogue burned down in France
MARSEILLE (France), April 1: France was forced on Monday to confront the spectre of violence after a spate of attacks climaxed with the burning of a synagogue and forced the issue...
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Crocodiles ‘sensed’ Taiwan earthquake: paper
TAIPEI, April 1: Crocodiles in a Taiwan wildlife park began behaving strangely on Sunday prior to the strong earthquake that rocked the island, local media reported on Monday....
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Clinton says Osama wanted to kill him
WASHINGTON, April 1: Former US president Bill Clinton said suspected terror mastermind Osama bin Laden was conspiring to kill him and was training hitmen for that purpose....
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Yugoslavia bows to US pressure over war crimes suspects
BELGRADE, April 1: The Yugoslav government has decided to “cooperate fully” with the UN war crimes court, including handing over wanted war crimes suspects, Foreign Minister Goran Svilanovic said on Monday....
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Monkey raised on human milk
BEIJING, April 1: A rare baby golden monkey in a Chinese animal sanctuary has been breast fed by a local woman after it was rejected by its mother....
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11 collaborators killed
Palestinians killed 11 collaborators on Monday. Two masked men shot dead eight men being held in an intelligence building in the West Bank town of Tulkarm. A group shot dead another...
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Catastrophe of US inaction in ME
WASHINGTON: The inauguration of George W. Bush last year raised hopes in the Middle East that he would repeat one of his father’s greatest achievements: using forceful and creative US diplomacy...
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Sharon’s security pledge up in smoke
AL QUDS: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s reputation as Israel’s Mr Security has gone up in the smoke of a Palestinian suicide bombing campaign....
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Mahathir scores with anti-terror stand
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s straight-talking Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammad opened a Muslim foreign ministers conference on Monday with the simple analysis that anyone who kills civilians should be called a terrorist....
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Bushmen to earn fortune from miracle pill
LONDON: They have faced extinction and poverty for hundreds of years, but now the San Bushmen of southern Africa stand to make millions of pounds from a so-called miracle slimming pill...
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Massive rise in world’s aged
MADRID: A massive increase in the elderly population of developing countries threatens to catch governments and aid agencies unprepared and bring suffering to millions of people, according to a report by...
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Arafat defying all odds to pursue freedom struggle
RAMALLAH: From his early days as a freedom fighter to his recent years as Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat has defied the odds to pursue the struggle for an independent Palestinian state....
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Africa — a cradle of human evolution and civilization
NEW YORK: The beetle-browed skull of an early human who died a million years ago on the grasslands of Ethiopia is further evidence that modern humans evolved from a common African...
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