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Maoist rebels kill 48 cops in Nepal
KATHMANDU, April 12: Maoist rebels using rocket launchers and bombs killed 54 people, including 48 policemen, in a string of attacks on police posts in western Nepal, the government said on... 
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BJP rejects Modi’s resignation offer
NEW DELHI, April 12: In a move to consolidate potential electoral gains from a bitter communal divide in Gujarat, India’s rightwing Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday turned down a...
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Most Muslims dislike US policies: ‘Impressions of America’
NEW YORK. April 12: While people living in Arab and non -Arab nations are fans of American-made products, American education, even its movies and television programs they loathe U.S. policies toward...
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Chavez quits after army pressure
CARACAS, April 12: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez resigned on Friday after senior military officers insisted the flamboyant ex-paratrooper leave office, blaming him for violence against a huge anti-Chavez protest in which...
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Annan seeks multinational force for Middle East
UNITED NATIONS, April 12: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan asked the Security Council on Friday to consider calling for an international force in the Middle East to curb violence between Israelis and...
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Bomber wanted to destroy market
TEL AVIV, April 12: She saw the police, so the young suicide bomber turned away from Jerusalem’s main open air market on Friday and waited nearby for a bus instead....
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Zubaydah is fount of knowledge: Rumsfeld
WASHINGTON, April 12: A top Osama bin Laden lieutenant held captive by the United States has begun talking to interrogators but is communicating with difficulty because he remains ill from infected...
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Iranian dissident Sahabi dies at 96
TEHRAN, April 12: Veteran Iranian opposition leader Yadollah Sahabi, who fought against US and British domination and later against religious extremism, died on Friday aged 96....
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Nato, Russia to form joint council
ROME, April 12: NATO and Russia will hold a summit in Italy in May at which they hope to sign an agreement to form a joint council, Italian Prime Minister Silvio...
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Press bodies condemn Israeli atrocities
PARIS, April 12: Several of the world’s leading associations of journalists, including the Jerusalem-based Foreign Press Association, have unanimously condemned Israel for its treatment of journalists reporting on the Israeli incursions...
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Bush terms Sharon man of peace
WASHINGTON, April 12: US President George Bush continues to believe that Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon is a “man of peace” and at the same time he feels that Palestinian leader...
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Hezbollah set to open ‘second’ front
BEIRUT: Hezbollah, still flush with its victory in driving Israel out of south Lebanon two years ago, is straining at the leash to open a second Arab front in support of...
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Indian leadership’s sincerity questioned: Gujarat killings
AHMEDABAD: The world’s largest democracy, with about 800 million Hindus and 120 million Muslims, has always had the potential to become a religious bonfire....
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New Delhi unlikely to take Tamil Tigers’ bait
NEW DELHI: Having burnt its fingers trying to broker an aborted peace accord in Sri Lanka in 1987, India is not likely to accept Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran’s appeal for...
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Creative use of genes makes humans unique: study
WASHINGTON: What makes humans different from chimps, apart from a little extra hair? It might be a more creative use of the genes that affect how the brain works, a study...
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Wave of violence puts Afghanistan on edge
KABUL: A wave of violence and political conflict in recent days has set Afghanistan on edge and threatens key steps on the fractured country’s road to reconstruction, including the scheduled return...
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Pessimism greets Powell in Mideast
JERUSALEM: Secretary of State Colin L. Powell kicked-off his critical phase of long-shot Middle East peace mission to test a new strategy to try to overcome the dangerous hostilities and deep...
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Vatican’s proposal over church standoff
PARIS: Jean-Louis Tauran, the French Monsignor who is the Vatican’s foreign minister, is proposing the creation, under the patronage of Pope John Paul II, of a joint Israeli-Palestinian commission that would...
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