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Arabs to make film on 38-day Israeli siege
CAIRO, May 12: Arab film-makers are in pre-production preparations for a film on the 38-day Israeli siege on Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity, the semi-official Egyptian al-Akhbar reported on Sunday.... 
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US urges inspections of Russian blast site
WASHINGTON, May 12: The US House of Representatives has urged President George W. Bush to seek access to a Russian nuclear test site in the Arctic, amid reports the Russians were...
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Le Monde warns against anti-Muslim hatred in France
PARIS, May 12: In a front page special report that appeared in its Sunday issue, France’s leading daily Le Monde condemned the growing phenomenon of anti-Muslim hatred in France, and indeed...
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Iraqi oil pipeline for Jordan planned
ABU DHABI, May 12: Iraq will initially supply Jordan with 100,000 barrels of crude oil a day when the new pipeline linking the two countries comes on stream in October 2004,...
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12 dead in Indian train accident
LUCKNOW, May 12: At least 12 people were killed and scores injured on Sunday when a train in northern India jumped the tracks in a disaster railway officials blamed on sabotage....
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PCs hijacked by music software
HAMBURG, May 12: A hidden function in the popular online exchange bazaar KaZaA software (www.kazaa.com) has brought the company that makes it under the critical gaze of authorities....
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Chirac gets apology after disrespect to anthem
PARIS, May 12: France’s newly-reelected president Jacques Chirac stormed out of a championship football match on Saturday after Corsican football fans attempted to shout down the singing of the French national...
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‘Isolationist’ Muslims a target in UK
LONDON, May 12: Muslim immigrants to Britain can be “very isolationist” and that can be exploited by political extremists, Britain’s minister for Europe Peter Hain said on Sunday....
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Hamas vows to continue attacks
GAZA CITY, May 12: The radical movement Hamas vowed on Sunday to press on with attacks against Israel, defying mounting pressure from the Palestinian Authority to stop their suicide bombings and...
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Group threatens suicide attacks in Yemen
SANAA, May 12: A group claiming to have links with the al-Qaeda network threatened on Saturday to carry out suicide attacks in Yemen if 173 people allegedly detained in Sanaa were...
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Conflicts threaten to spread in S. Asia
DELHI: The battle in the remote western area of Nepal is merely the latest in a series of gruesome encounters between the kingdom’s rampant Maoist guerrillas and government forces. The violence...
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Uneven progress towards Afghan assembly
CHARIKAR, Afghanistan: In the carpeted gloom of a mosque, village elders sat in circles around seven wooden ballot boxes, murmuring and gesturing. From one circle, voices rose sharply as an argument...
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Japan, North Korea tensions move into the open
TOKYO: Japan’s relations with North Korea, never friendly, have moved into more open tensions because Tokyo is fed up with its unsuccessful attempts to woo Pyongyang so far, analysts here say....
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How UK diplomatic coup ended Bethlehem siege
LONDON: Shortly after 11am on Friday, an armoured bus rolled into Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport. It was the kind used by Jewish settlers on the West Bank....
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Children’s bath gels cause skin diseases
LONDON: Jamie Brown was a few months old when his parents noticed a red patch on his arm. Despite careful wiping and cleaning, the rash spread until it covered a large...
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Commercial success for cloning unlikely
LOS ANGELES: Forty Nobel laureates and patient-advocacy groups have lobbied senators to allow human cloning for medical research....
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DNA tags to stop fake painting
SYDNEY: Australian painter Pro Hart has become the first artist to mark his work with his DNA. Other artists are expected to follow his lead, to authenticate their works beyond doubt....
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Thailand still learning democratic principles
BANGKOK: Thailand is marking the fifth year of its latest Constitution in a few months, but political analysts here say the country is still learning how to make best use of...
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