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Indian minister quits cabinet on eve of censure vote
NEW DELHI, April 29: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s coalition government appeared to be safe but nervous on Monday after a senior cabinet member resigned over the communal upsurge in... 
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Biggest genetic database launched
LONDON, April 29: The world’s biggest genetic database, built on DNA samples from 500,000 Britons, was given the go-ahead on Monday with a pledge of 45 million pounds (65.35m dollars) in...
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Lankans protests police post at campus
COLOMBO, April 29: Hundreds of Sri Lankan university students protested here on Sunday against attempts by the university authorities to establish a police post inside the premises of a foremost government-run...
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Student kills teacher
BANJA LUKA (Bosnia-Hercegovina), April 29: A 17-year-old pupil went on a shooting rampage at a school in the Bosnian Serb entity Republika Srpska on Monday, killing one teacher before turning the...
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Oslo rebukes UN envoy, ambassador
OSLO, April 29: Norway reprimanded its ambassador to Israel and her husband, the UN’s Middle East envoy to the Middle East, on Monday for failing to tell Oslo they had received...
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Lebed dies in air crash
MOSCOW, April 29: Alexander Lebed, former Russian presidential candidate and one-time peacemaker in Chechnya, died on Sunday when his helicopter crashed in Siberia after hitting a power line....
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Arafat faces tough task of rebuilding
AL QUDS: When Yasser Arafat steps out of his ravaged headquarters for the first time in months, he may not recognize what he sees. Assuming a US-brokered deal takes effect and...
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US moral camouflage in immoral war
LONDON: After the US encouraged the secession of Panama from Colombia in 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt suffered qualms of conscience. Having promised the new state US military protection to secure...
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Rise in weapons use across W. Europe
MADRID: On paper, Western Europe seems like a gun control utopia. The laws governing firearms are tougher than in the United States. Citizens are less likely to be armed. And the...
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Mutual distrust hinders common ME solution
AL QUDS: From Tel Aviv to the Gaza Strip, the mood these days is full of gloom as two peoples contemplate the future with anger, fear, uncertainty....
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Paris police on alert for Le Pen’s rally
PARIS: French police say they are taking “extraordinary” measures with regard to the May 1st march being organized in Paris by National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, indeed they say...
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Wonders of keeping a fruit-based diet
LONDON: Fruit thoroughly deserves its wholesome reputation and is one foodstuff about which there seems to be very little contention...
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Saddam still Iraq’s strongman
BAGHDAD: On his 65th birthday, Iraq President Saddam Hussein looks well in control here despite US threats to oust him, diplomats and analysts said on Sunday. Growing Arab sympathy and his...
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Washington, Moscow divided on nuclear arms cuts
WASHINGTON: Less than a month before President Bush hopes to sign an agreement in Moscow cutting Russian and American nuclear arsenals, arms negotiators remain seriously divided on the nature of the...
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