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US issues new workplace guidelines after Sept 11
WASHINGTON, May 16: To prevent Sept 11-related workplace backlash, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released two new fact sheets, for employers and employees respectively, addressing frequently asked questions... 
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Christian Democrats wins Dutch polls
THE HAGUE, May 16: The Dutch opposition Christian Democrats were the clear winners in Wednesday’s parliamentary elections, while the right- wing grouping led by slain populist Pim Fortuyn bounded from nowhere...
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Iran on edge of social explosion: scholar
TEHRAN, May 16: A leading Iranian religious official warned that Iran was on the verge of a social explosion because of discontent among the population, the state news agency IRNA reported...
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Palestinians from Bethlehem are local heroes
GAZA, May 16: Palestinian fighters freed last week from the Israeli siege of the Church of the Nativity are local heroes in the Gaza Strip....
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Jordan’s female MP on trial
PARIS, May 16: A cyber-journalist, who also happens to be Jordan’s first female member of the parliament, goes on trial for having written articles considered as defamatory to Jordan and its...
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4 Indians charged in $600m fraud
LOS ANGELES, May 16: Four New Jersey-based Indian nationals were charged on Tuesday with defrauding banks of more than 600 million dollars through an ‘international scheme’ to secure loans for illusory...
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Oxygen supply cut off to ISS space station
MOSCOW/HOUSTON, May 16: The three crewmen aboard the International Space Station (ISS) drew from emergency oxygen on Thursday after the main oxygen generator shut down, but US and Russian space officials...
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Centuries-old riddle of Galileo is answered
PARIS, May 16: Physicists wielding proton beams believe they have solved a riddle from the history of their own discipline, by working out exactly when Galileo Galilei made a discovery that...
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LTTE irked over surveillance flights
COLOMBO, May 16: Unrest has risen among the LTTE ranks about surveillance flights carried out by the Sri Lankan government over the LTTE controlled regions....
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Pope may have to resign if health worsens, says cardinal
 ROME, May 16: Pope John Paul II has not ruled out the possibility that he may have to resign if his health worsens, Honduran Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga said on...
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Cop gets 228 years for deaths of protesters
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 16: A court in the northern Brazilian state of Para sentenced a military police colonel to 228 years in prison Thursday for a 1996 operation that resulted...
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N-accord unlikely to make world safer
WASHINGTON: While politically important, this week’s US-Russian accord to remove thousands of nuclear warheads from operational deployment is unlikely to make the world a markedly safer place....
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New US restrictions on foreign students
LONDON: In September 2000 the US consulate in Saudi Arabia issued a visa to Hani Hanjour, a young man who had been offered a place at a small language school in...
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Bush twisting law to legalize tribunals
BALTIMORE: The US has a reputation for a fair criminal justice system. So should the Guantanamo Bay detainees rest easy? The Bush administration is trying to create new rules for the...
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US Congress urged to curtail foreign military training
WASHINGTON: US foreign military training programmes are proliferating at an unprecedented rate and Congress must assert its watchdog role over them, a progressive think tank said on Tuesday....
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UK row over cloning
LONDON: British scientists are genetically modifying and cloning hundreds of thousands of animals a year with little health or commercial advantage, according to a report by genetics monitoring group GeneWatch....
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Argentina fell apart by listening to IMF
WASHINGTON: It is a familiar refrain: Another Latin American republic, this time Argentina, cannot get its act together. A profligate government and its populist policies have brought the country to ruin....
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Ultrasound lets parents ‘touch’ embryo
CHICAGO: Chubby cheeks. A cute button nose. Tiny fingers and toes. A newborn can turn the sanest adults into cooing, babbling fools. Expectant parents who cannot wait to feel their baby’s...
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