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Taliban living in ‘Auschwitz’ state: EU censures Dostum
KABUL, May 13: The European Union’s special envoy to Afghanistan has confronted the country’s powerful deputy defence minister Abdul Rashid Dostum over the conditions in which hundreds of Taliban prisoners are... 
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Arafat’s visit to Jenin camp scrapped
JENIN, May 13: Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s West Bank tour, his first trip out of Ramallah after the end of the Israeli siege, turned sour on Monday when he was forced...
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US quizzes suspect in Masood murder
WASHINGTON, May 13: US authorities believe a jailed postal employee may have helped provide a letter of introduction to two men who posed as journalists before assassinating Afghan opposition leader Ahmad...
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13 Palestinians may get refugee status
BRUSSELS, May 13: The 13 Palestinians idling in Cyprus after the siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem could be given refugee status in Europe, Spanish Foreign Minister Josep...
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India’s army chief in Kathmandu
KATHMANDU, May 13: A goodwill visit to Nepal by India’s army chief has been a customary affair since 1970s....
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5 killed in US raid near Kandahar
WASHINGTON, May 13: US special operations forces raided a suspected Taliban or Al Qaeda compound north of Kandahar on Monday, killing five people and capturing 32 others, a Pentagon spokesman said....
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Bees to sniff bombs
WASHINGTON, May 13: In the struggle against terrorism or others who may try to take lives with bombs, the US Defence Department is training ordinary honey bees to sniff out explosives,...
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Maharashtra violence claims two lives
 MUMBAI, May 13: At least two people died in communal violence in Maharashtra state, which borders the state of Gujarat where almost 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, have been killed in an...
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BD journalists face harassment, says RSF
PARIS, May 13: A joint declaration by French journalists’ rights association, the Reporters sans frontieres (RSF), and the Bangladesh Centre for Development, Journalism and Communication (BCDJC), accuses the government in Dhaka...
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Pentagon evacuated
WASHINGTON, May 13: Hundreds of people were evacuated from a section of the Pentagon on Monday as a precaution after sensors in place since the Sept 11 attack detected a chemical...
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India gives Gujarat riots terrorist spin
NEW DELHI: Faced with widespread disgust at its handling of what many have called a pogrom against Muslims in Gujarat, the pro-Hindu Indian government seems intent on laying on “international terrorism”...
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Likud vote deals blow to peace process: Palestinian state
RIYADH: By rejecting a Palestinian state, the ruling Likud party of Israel is standing at the same position, where the Arabs were 36 years before in 1966 when they had rejected...
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NATO in crisis of self-doubt
BRUSSELS: “Whither NATO?”, the eternal question about the future of the US-led defence alliance, risks turning into “Wither NATO”, a lament for the decline of a once mighty military organization. Since...
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Myanmar’s slow push towards freedom
BANGKOK: Myanmar’s military rulers released Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi last week in the hopes that biting international economic sanctions would be eased. But can the diminutive Suu Kyi...
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NATO, Russia in ‘quantum leap’ of cooperation
BRUSSELS: NATO stands on the brink of a “revolutionary” new relationship with Russia, which will become an active partner with its former cold war enemy in a world transformed by Sept...
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S. Leone’s painful war wounds run deep
FREETOWN: Swaying on his bed and staring as straight as he can while the tranquillisers wear off, former rebel Bimba Turay’s face shows a ground-in pain that Sierra Leone’s return to...
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