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| May 30, 2002 | Thursday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 17,1423 |
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S. Arabia tells Sharon to choose between peace & bloodshed
RIYADH, May 29: A Saudi-authored Arab peace plan leaves the government of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with a stark choice between peace and bloodshed, Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul... 
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India urged to probe deaths of two Britons
NEW DELHI, May 29: British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw urged India on Wednesday to investigate the deaths of two British Muslims in communal riots in Gujarat....
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Americans in Bahrain asked to be cautious: Attack on two US soldiers
WASHINGTON, May 29: The United States on Tuesday urged Americans in Bahrain to “take seriously” security advice offered by the State Department after a weekend incident in which two US military...
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Iraq allowed to send ambassador to OIC
RIYADH, May 29: Saudi Arabia, which currently has no diplomatic ties with Iraq, has agreed to let Baghdad send an ambassador to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), sending a...
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INS to release 50pc of illegal immigrants
LOS ANGELES, May 29: The US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has decided to free 50 per cent of illegal immigrants it has been ordered to surrender since Sept 11....
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Arafat to unveil security reforms
RAMALLAH, May 29: Yasser Arafat is to announce a major reform of his unwieldy and rival security services within 72 hours at the most, senior Palestinian security officials said on Wednesday....
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— signs ‘constitution’
GAZA CITY, May 29: Yasser Arafat has finally signed the Palestinian Basic Law, five years after his parliament adopted the de facto constitution defining his leadership powers, a senior legal official...
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Lankan PM’s plane held up at Dubai
COLOMBO, May 29: The Sri Lankan prime minister had to wait for two hours at the Dubai airport on Monday as the plane carrying him to London had to make an...
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Supermodel to meet supernatural
LONDON, May 29: The English country mansion where supermodel Claudia Schiffer and her new husband Matthew Vaughn will begin their married life is haunted, according to Britain’s Ghost Club....
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Bigs firms opposed smoke-free zones
LONDON, May 29: Leading tobacco companies have manipulated the hospitality industry in a worldwide campaign to prevent restaurants and bars from introducing smoke-free areas, according to research published on Wednesday....
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Three bombs explode in Ahmedabad
AHMEDABAD, May 29: Three bombs exploded on in Ahmedabad on Wednesday, wounding 11 people and stoking fears of fresh communal violence....
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Firing on daily’s office in Srinagar
SRINAGAR, May 29: Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a newspaper office in here on Wednesday, seriously wounding a journalist, police and witnesses said....
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‘Nancy Drew’ creator dies
CLEVELAND, May 29: Mildred Wirt Benson, the creator of the “Nancy Drew” mystery series, died late Tuesday in a hospital in Ohio. She was 96....
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Washington intern was murdered, says examiner
WASHINGTON, May 29: The death of Chandra Levy, the intern romantically linked to a U.S. congressman, was formally ruled a murder on Tuesday but authorities may never know how she died,...
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China watches as Russia cosies up to NATO
BEIJING, May 29: Beijing is watching warily as Moscow cosies up with its old foe NATO, concerned that Russia’s newly forged alliance could in the long run bring the US-led coalition...
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Climate change affects Arctic
IQALUIT, (The Arctic): And so it has come to be, the elders say, a time when icebergs are melting, tides have changed and polar bears have thinned. Scattered clouds blowing in...
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Free-trade or subsidies for African nations
LONDON: Paul O’Neill, the US treasury secretary, and Irish rock singer Bono will be visiting Addis Ababa on the last leg of their 11-day tour of four sub-Saharan African countries. They...
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Schroeder eager to cultivate the left
BERLIN: Far behind in voter surveys and with time running out before an election in September, the last thing German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder wants is advice from his old boss....
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Fill ‘er up — with hydrogen
DETROIT: Your home could be the service station of the future. Within 10 years, the filling station could face competition from the natural gas, electricity and even the water supplied to...
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Thai drug epidemic threatens to spread to rest of Asia
BANGKOK: Thai officials say last year was the worst year on record for the use of methamphetamine, a form of speed, called ya ba, or “crazy medicine” here. The Thai military...
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