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Israel okays plan for houses near Al Quds
TEL AVIV, May 20: Israel’s housing ministry has recently offered tenders for an unprecedented more than 950 houses for settlers just outside of occupied Al Quds, an opposition lawmaker revealed on... 
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Albright rips Bush’s foreign policy
WASHINGTON, May 20: Two days before President George W. Bush’s departure for Europe, a former US secretary of state delivered a scathing sendoff, accusing his foreign policy team of suffering from...
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Scientist working on featherless chicken
TEL AVIV, May 20: Chickens could fly even faster to the dinner table if an Israeli geneticist gets his way and develops the featherless fowl....
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EU MPs vote for unified approach : Defence, foreign affairs
PARIS, May 20: In a little noticed, but major, decision handed down at Strasbourg, the European Parliament has decided with an overwhelming majority (322 for, 64 against, with 58 abstentions) that...
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Fahd leaves for Switzerland
RIYADH, May 20: Saudi Arabia’s ailing King Fahd left for Switzerland on Monday, where he will rest for an unspecified period, the official Saudi Press Agency reported....
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Conference on image of Islam
CAIRO, May 20: Delegates from Muslim nations opened a conference here on Monday aimed at correcting what Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and others said were attempts to distort the image of...
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EU agrees on fate of 13 exiles
MYKONOS (Greece), May 20: European Union nations have reached an agreement on the final destinations of the 13 Palestinians exiled by Israel to Cyprus, Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Pique said on...
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Gates award for Rotary
SEATTLE, May 20: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced on Monday that The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International has been selected to receive the Gates Award for Global Health....
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Why Europe’s voice doesn’t count
LONDON: You can, with Colin Powell, gently regret that “some in Europe are quick to find fault with any position the United States might take”. Or, with Benjamin Netanyahu, snake oil...
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Arafat kicks off ‘reforms’ process
RAMALLAH: Yasser Arafat must have swallowed hard before signing the bill that marks an unprecedented step toward Palestinian democracy — at least on paper....
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Animals have rights
LOS ANGELES: Steven Wise has represented a dolphin in court, got vicious dogs off death row and was the first person to teach an animal rights course at a US law school....
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Arab League still elusive
CAIRO: There’s a new voice rising above the bustle of downtown Cairo After years of paralysis, the Arab League seems to have sprung to life, fired up by a chief who has steered ....
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Sierra Leone: rebels dumped
LONDON: Sierra Leone’s voters have decisively rejected the rebels who terrorized their nation for a decade by overwhelmingly re-electing President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah two years after British troops were sent to...
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‘Hidden’ victims of Afghan bombing
LONDON: Who killed Asaq Mohammed? His uncle watched him die. Soon after the US started bombing Afghanistan last autumn the small boy, just under two years old, fled his home on...
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