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US body to probe govt involvement: Gujarat killings
WASHINGTON, June 6: The US Commission on International Religious Freedom has decided to hold a hearing to examine fresh evidence suggesting that recent communal violence in the Indian state of Gujarat,... 
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Oriana Fallaci finds publisher
PARIS, June 6: Oriana Fallaci’s book, Anger and Pride, which has made waves around the globe for its often racist and unfair depiction of the world of Islam, has finally found...
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Dirty helmets can lead to baldness: study
TAIPEI, June 6: Scooter riders beware; wearing a dirty safety helmet in hot weather can lead to various skin diseases and even baldness, doctors in Taiwan said....
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Heart diseases claim 17m lives: WHF
GENEVA, June 6: One billion people are overweight or obese, contributing to the 17 million deaths a year caused by heart disease or strokes, the World Heart Federation warned on Thursday....
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‘Unknown unknowns’ a big threat: Rumsfeld
BRUSSELS, June 6: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld baffled NATO allies and journalists alike on Thursday by saying the greatest threats to Western civilisation may lurk in “unknown unknowns”....
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Mufti defends suicide bombing
PARIS, June 6: According to Sheikh Ahmed al Tayeb, Palestinian kamikazes are in effect not suicide bombers, for, he holds, “they do not commit suicide, but rather are martyrs for Islam.”...
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Colombo considering lifting ban on Tamil Tigers
COLOMBO, June 6: Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has given an assurance of removing a local ban imposed on the LTTE, sources in the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) said on Wednesday,...
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India tests light combat aircraft
NEW DELHI, June 6: A multi-role, domestically built light combat aircraft (LCA) was tested by India on Thursday after a considerable delay in its development, a news report said....
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Market economy status for Russia
MOSCOW, June 6: US President George W. Bush on Thursday informed his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that the United States now considers Russia to be a market economy, Russian news agencies...
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CICA summit’s Almaty Declaration: text
ALMATY, June 6: Following is the text of the Almaty declaration adopted at the CICA summit here on Tuesday:...
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US has leverage, but no silver bullet: Pakistan-India stand-off
WASHINGTON: With the failure of Russian-led efforts to defuse the South Asia crisis, pressure is building on the United States, which has leverage but no silver bullet, to bring stability to...
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Arabs look to Bush for ME solution
WASHINGTON: As the Bush administration moves into the next phase of its efforts to resolve the Mideast crisis, there is a potential stalemate between the White House and the Arab governments...
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Media pirates dodge copyright rules
LOS ANGELES: From the Middle East to the South Pacific, renegade online movie and music services are setting up shop in far-off lands to dodge international copyright rules....
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Thai border skirmishes unlikely to cause war
BANGKOK: An ill-defined border in one of the world’s most lucrative drugs producing areas is at the heart of tensions between Thailand and Myanmar, but recent skirmishes won’t lead to war...
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Bush gaffe over blacks?
WASHINGTON: Some well-known Democrats have been flogging a recent Der Spiegel item that said President Bush had asked Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, “Do you have blacks, too?”...
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Lockerbie talks ‘make progress’
LONDON: Talks between British, US and Libyan officials in London on Thursday about compensating families of victims killed in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing have “made progress” and have been adjourned, the...
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‘New reports’ of CIA, FBI misses
WASHINGTON: Congressional investigators are fielding a flurry of new tips and documents indicating that the U.S. intelligence community missed other opportunities to anticipate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the chairman of...
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Indigo farming makes a comeback in Bangladesh
DHAKA: In a rewarding reversal of history, marked by a sordid chapter in British colonial rule in India, farmers in Bangladesh have resumed the cultivation of indigo — the source of...
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