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US govt ‘winked’ at Israeli offensive: Brzezinski
NEW YORK, April 6: Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser at the time of the 1979 Camp David accords during the Carter presidency, has said in a newspaper interview that the Bush... 
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China asks Bush why he called Taiwan a country
BEIJING, April 6: China has asked the United States for an explanation on why US President George W. Bush referred to Taiwan as a country during a speech last week in...
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Israeli jets pound Lebanon
BEIRUT, April 6: Israeli jets and artillery hit targets across south Lebanon on Saturday in retaliation for the the most extensive guerilla attacks on the Jewish state’s armed forces since they...
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Doubt, shock greet cloning report
LONDON, April 6: Scientists reacted with skepticism and shock on Saturday to a report that a woman taking part in a controversial human cloning programme for infertile couples was eight weeks...
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Thousands protest US policy on ME
NEW YORK, April 6: Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters took to the streets in New York, Stockholm, Sydney and several other European cities on Friday and Saturday, demanding an end to Israel’s...
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Not if, but when, Hezbollah will open second front
LEBANESE-ISRAELI BORDER, April 6: Street protests across the Arab world this week have been punctuated by the slogans “Open the Arab fronts” and “Where are the Arab armies?” as Israel pressed...
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5 soldiers among 19 killed in Nepal
KATHMANDU, April 6: Five soldiers were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Maoist rebels in Nepal on Saturday raising the death toll in the Himalayan kingdom over the past 24...
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Two Koreas agree to revive talks
SEOUL, April 6: North and South Korea announced on Saturday they had agreed to revive peace talks in a bid to put their relations back on track....
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‘Lagaan’ adjudged best film
GENTING HIGHLANDS (Malaysia) April 6: Days after “Lagaan” failed to win an Oscar for the best foreign film, the Indian film industry gathered at a Malaysian resort to heap praise and...
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Swedish PM fails to talk with Arafat
STOCKHOLM, April 6: Swedish Prime Minister Goeran Persson complained on Saturday about difficulties in carrying out telephone conversations with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, amid Palestinian claims that Israel was intentionally disrupting...
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2 million large asteroids
WASHINGTON, April 6: The solar system’s main asteroid belt is dotted with between 1.1 million and 1.9 million asteroids measuring more than one kilometre in diameter — twice as many as...
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Ceasefires won’t lead to ME peace
LOS ANGELES: With Israeli tanks besieging everything from the Church of the Holy Nativity to Yasser Arafat’s compound, President Bush has finally taken the war between Israel and the Palestinians seriously...
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Vajpayee’s Gujarat visit comes too late
NEW DELHI: Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee visited riot-torn Gujarat on Thursday, more than a month after a provincial government run by his pro-Hindu, Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) began a...
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Minefield ahead for Powell
WASHINGTON: After two visits that ended in dismal failure, the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, had vowed not to return to the Middle East until it was apparent he could...
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US attack on Iraq looms large
CRAWFORD (USA): The prospect of a US-British war against Iraq remained on the horizon on Friday as Tony Blair arrived in Texas for one-to-one talks with the US president, George Bush,...
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Mbeki loses war against AIDS drugs
JOHANNESBURG: The South African government has run out of legal options in its efforts to prevent the immediate and widespread distribution of anti-retrovirals - drugs that reduces the impact of AIDS...
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FBI is ‘criminally negligent’: Soviet spy
LOS ANGELES: The former FBI agent who sold secrets to the Soviet Union for more than 20 years has accused the bureau of “criminal negligence” in making it so easy for...
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Sharon’s repression multiplying terrorism
LOS ANGELES: Events of recent weeks make absolutely clear that there will be no peace in the Middle East until the cost reaches truly massive proportions for either the Palestinians, Israel...
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