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Israel tells DPs to leave or face bombs
NABLUS, April 8: The Israeli army told residents of the Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin on Monday to evacuate their homes or get ready to be bombed.... 
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MPs barred from meeting Arafat
NICOSIA, April 8: Cyprus made an angry protest to Israel on Monday after six Cypriot MPs were barred from entering the Jewish state on a fact-finding mission that was to have...
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Powell gets chilly reception in Morocco
AGADIR (Morocco), April 8: Morocco’s King Mohammed gave US Secretary of State Colin Powell’s Middle East peace mission a chilly reception on Monday by asking the top diplomat why he had...
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Fire at church after Israeli shooting
 BETHLEHEM, April 8: Israeli forces fired shots at the Church of the Nativity on Monday during fighting with Palestinian gunmen in Bethlehem, and a fire briefly broke out in the church...
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Commission slams Modi, Vajpayee for inaction
NEW DELHI, April 8: India’s commission for minorities has joined the chorus of indictment of the Gujarat state government for its inept handling of the recent bout of communal violence in...
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Italian doctor develops human clone to 20-cell level: monthly
WASHINGTON, April 8: Italian gynecologist Severino Antinori has produced a cloned human embryo of 20 cells, somewhere in Asia, he claims in a report in April’s edition of Scientific American....
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Diplomats feel the heat of Gujarat massacres
New Delhi, April 8: Indian diplomats and businessmen are being nicely grilled by the more concerned foreign governments over the obvious failure by New Delhi to prevent large-scale anti-Muslim violence in...
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Jews stab cop in Paris
PARIS, April 8: Jewish extremists stabbed a policeman and assaulted several journalists as around 53,000 marchers took to the streets here on Sunday to protest a series of anti-Jewish acts....
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Israel’s harassment of Palestinians
RAMALLAH: After a week’s captivity in an Israeli military camp, where he said he was blindfolded and handcuffed, given little food and water, held outdoors for three days and then confined...
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Blair, Bush threats fail to deter Iraq
CRAWFORD (USA): The rhetoric between Britain, the US and Iraq increased sharply on Sunday when Baghdad flatly rejected a demand from Tony Blair to allow UN weapons inspectors to return to...
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Myanmar may face ASEAN pressure
YANGON: Myanmar’s military rulers, marching completely out of step with regional efforts to boost trade and investment, could soon face pressure from Southeast Asian allies to embrace political change, diplomats say....
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Israeli army deliberately intimidating journalists
AL QUDS: In his three decades covering wars in the Mideast, television producer Charles Enderlin has had his run-ins with Israeli soldiers - but never a nasty rebuff like the one...
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Extra mile by Washington needed for ME peace
LONDON: President Bush’s latest intervention in the Middle East - in his speech last Thursday - is welcome, if belated. However, his words were sufficiently ambiguous for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel...
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US delaying aid to Afghans
KABUL: When Harafa came to the US Embassy here on Sunday, she did not ask for compensation for the loss of her husband, killed when a stray American bomb landed on...
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