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Democrats demand investigation: Pre-Sept 11 intelligence warnings
WASHINGTON, May 17: Democrats in the US Congress are demanding an investigation into whether intelligence warnings prior to September’s suicide attacks were properly handled as Republicans accused them of playing politics.... 
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Deadly Afghan ‘bug’ reaches Britain
LONDON, May 17: The mysterious illness raging among British troops in Afghanistan has reached the UK mainland after a doctor who was treating the sick troops flew back and spent three...
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Bush a threat to his own country: Ralph Nader
STOCKHOLM, May 17: Former US presidential candidate and consumer advocate Ralph Nader lashed out on Friday at the US administration and corporate America in the wake of the September 11 attacks,...
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Hamas vows more attacks: spokesman
TYRE (Lebanon) May 17: Suicide bombers will keep striking Israel until a Palestinian state is created, the spokesman in Lebanon for the Islamic radical group Hamas said on Friday....
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US may attack Iraq with Kurds’ assistance
PARIS, May 17: A consultant to the French Foreign Ministry’s Centre for Forecasts and Analysis (CAP: Centre d’analyse et previsions) says that in his opinion there’s a 90 per cent chance...
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BD’s first execution in 14 years
DHAKA, May 17: A man convicted for murdering two close relatives was executed in a prison in northern Bangladesh after his appeal against the death sentence to the Supreme Court was...
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Queen Elizabeth inherits mum’s fortune tax-free
LONDON, May 17: Britain’s late Queen Mother has left her fortune to her daughter, Queen Elizabeth, while her residences will be divided up between other members of the royal family, Buckingham...
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Record price for Beethoven manuscript
LONDON, May 17: The earliest draft of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, a single-page manuscript, was sold for a record 1.3 million pounds (1.9 million dollars, 2 million euros) at auction in London...
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RSF flays detention of 5 newsmen
PARIS, May 17: Five Palestinian journalists who were arrested several weeks ago by the Israeli army remain in jail, although most of them have never been charged with an offence....
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Towards a new Atlantic order
RICHMOND: The United States and its Atlantic allies have created a new Russia-NATO Council in advance of NATO enlargement. Up to seven countries may be invited to join the North Atlantic...
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New tensions in Asia over asylum-seekers
BEIJING: Chinese troops are unrolling barbed wire around the embassies of Beijing — as diplomatic tensions rise in East Asia....
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Carter, Bush at odds over handling Cuba
HAVANA: As the former US president Jimmy Carter wraps up a week-long visit to Havana, his proposal that the US should “take the first step” towards ending the four-decade embargo against...
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Cambodia’s ‘Wild West’
KOH KONG (Cambodia): A new bridge linking southern Cambodia to Thailand is promising to transform the lives of tens of thousands of villagers once dependent on marijuana plantations and organised crime....
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US quietly puts down roots in Georgia
TBILISI: A US military training programme for Georgia, which gets under way this month, has more to do with stabilizing the still-weak former Soviet republic and furthering a NATO foothold in...
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‘Patriotism’ stifling US press, says newsman
WASHINGTON: Dan Rather, the star news anchor for the US television network CBS, said on Thursday that “patriotism run amok” was in danger of trampling the freedom of American journalists to...
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‘Lagaan’ tastes Hollywood fame
NEW YORK: A nearly four-hour, foreign-language film about a cricket match in hot, dusty India sounds like it might put an American audience to sleep. Instead it may help create a...
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