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Arafat cannot stop all attacks on Israel: US
WASHINGTON, May 19: Top US administration officials on Sunday conceded that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat could not control all sources of anti-Israeli attacks and called for maximum pressure on “state sponsors... 
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E. Timor becomes independent nation
 DILI (East Timor), May 19: Tiny East Timor declared independence shortly after midnight on Sunday in front of tens of thousands of revellers, taking its place as the first new nation...
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Rome accused of suppressing film
CANNES, May 19: An Italian filmmaker said on Sunday Italian authorities had tried to suppress his documentary about alleged police brutality at last year’s Genoa G8 summit where one protester was...
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Paris keen to revive special ties with Berlin
PARIS, May 19: France is so determined to re-establish the authority of France and Germany over Europe that it has lost no time during the past two weeks, making it clear...
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Azerbaijan, Iran in row over Caspian
TEHRAN, May 19: Azeri President Heydar Aliyev’s visit to Iran continued on Sunday despite little progress in the two countries’ bitter row over the sharing of the Caspian Sea’s vast energy...
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BD bans 8 foreign channels
DHAKA, May 19: Bangladesh on Sunday ordered eight satellite television channels off air because of the networks’ influence on the nation’s religious and social values....
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US at ‘right level of alert’, says Condoleezza
WASHINGTON, May 19: The United States is at “the right level of alert” following a reported new spurt in intelligence chatter pointing to another terrorist attack against the country, National Security...
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71-year-old newsman gets jail in Iran
PARIS, May 19: A 71-year old Iranian journalist, Siamak Pourzand, has been sentenced to 11 years in jail on charges of “undermining state security”....
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Saudis bid for Arab leadership role
LONDON, May 19: The Arab world, where Egypt’s influence was once preponderant, is now looking to Saudi Arabia to champion the Palestinians and avert a US attack on Iraq....
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Afghan war takes marines far from sea
BAGRAM AIR BASE: The Afghan war has buried the traditional image of marines storming onto beaches in wartime....
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US ruffles ‘birds’ feathers
TORONTO: Canadian “snowbirds”, who head south for the winter months, got their feathers ruffled over a proposed US immigration rule that could limit their stay in US states to 30 days,...
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Extinct Indian cheetah may stage a comeback
HYDERABAD: The long-dead Indian cheetah may be up and running wild again — if efforts by Indian scientists to genetically engineer its resurrection prove to be successful....
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Affluent Argentina tastes hunger
BUENOS AIRES: Argentina prides itself on its reputation as the beef capital of the world. Meat has long been a way of life here, with workers sizzling slabs of it on...
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US pacifist calls for new ME policy
NEW YORK: Kristen Schurr had just come home with an Israeli deportation notice freshly stamped in her US passport — an unexpected souvenir of a trip that landed her in an...
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