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Japan PM’s visit to shrine angers China: Minister’s trip put off
TOKYO, April 23: Backing angry words with deeds, China on Tuesday postponed a visit by Japan’s defence minister to vent its ire after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited a shrine where... 
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Khatami walks out of Caspian summit
ASHKABAD, April 23: The opening day of a two-day summit on dividing the Caspian Sea ended with an apparent walkout by Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, although Turkmen officials and summit participants...
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Delhi told to ensure security of Taj Mahal
NEW DELHI, April 23: India’s supreme court on Tuesday ordered the federal government to take charge of security for the Taj Mahal to protect it from any terrorist threat....
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Berlin police suggest Jews consider hiding faith
BERLIN, April 23: Berlin police have given informal advice to Jewish people to avoid wearing skullcaps after recent attacks in the German capital, a police spokesman said on Tuesday....
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Question on Nazism upsets students in India
NEW DELHI, April 23: Students in Gujarat were shocked when their knowledge of English in an examination was tested with a passage about Nazism, a newspaper said on Tuesday....
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Frenchman on Sept 11 trial is in a cage: lawyer
MONTPELLIER (France), April 23: Zacarias Moussaoui, the French national on trial in the United States for alleged involvement in the Sept 11 attacks, is being held in “unacceptable” conditions, which is...
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US plans to host ME meeting
WASHINGTON, April 23: The United States may host talks with Russia, the United Nations and the European Union in Washington early next month on the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, diplomats...
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Monks flay ‘deal’ with LTTE
COLOMBO, April 23: Thousands of anti-LTTE protestors took to streets here on Tuesday in a protest rally organized by the Marxist party, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), against the proposed lifting...
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Le Pen’s Arab phobia pleases Jews
PARIS, April 23: One of the pillars of the French Jewish establishment, Jo Goldenberg, whose family runs the French capital’s most celebrated Jewish restaurant, Chez Goldenberg, has revealed that his vote...
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One killed, 265 injured in US train crash
PLACENTIA (USA), April 23: At least one person was killed and 265 injured on Tuesday when a freight train slammed into a passenger train in southern California, emergency officials said....
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Bush faces fork in road to ME policy
WASHINGTON: No issue since Sept 11 has opened sharper divisions in Washington than President Bush’s handling of the brutal conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Neoconservatives and Christian conservatives (joined by...
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No plane crashed into Pentagon: book
PARIS: In France, where it has become a runaway best seller in less than a month with 250,000 copies sold in near under-the-counter conditions, it is known as ‘L’Effroyable Imposture’ (The...
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UK jets for India spark fears of nuclear war
LONDON: British jets sold to India could be adapted to carry nuclear weapons or used to train pilots to fly nuclear-capable aircraft, the UK government has admitted. The admission, in a...
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US ignoring war errors in Afghanistan
KABUL: A delegation of local leaders from Khost showed up at the US Embassy here the other day seeking answers. What they got, they said, was the brushoff....
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America’s ‘terrorism’ ideology a mistake
LOS ANGELES: The Bush administration has been waging the global war on terrorism as if terrorism is a movement, an ideology, a political coalition, with little differentiation from case to case....
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Israel’s respite from suicide bombings won’t last
AL QUDS: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s iron-fist strategy has boosted his standing with Israelis relieved that suicide attacks are no longer a daily event, but analysts said his popularity may not...
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