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Earth-like planetary system discovered
WASHINGTON, June 14: After 15 years of searching, astronomers said on Thursday they have found an alien planetary system that reminds them a lot of home.... 
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G8 opposes US move to isolate Arafat
WHISTLER (Canada), June 14: Clear divisions were on display on Thursday between Group of Eight nations over calls for a timetable to be set for a Middle East peace settlement, an...
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Michael Jackson knocked down by fans
 EXETER (England), June 14: Michael Jackson was knocked to the ground on Friday by excited fans fighting to touch the pop legend at a London railway station....
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Candidate for Afghan leadership says she was ‘offered deal’
KABUL, June 13: The first woman to stand for Afghanistan’s leadership, Massouda Jalal, said on Thursday she had been offered a cabinet seat if she pulled out of the leadership race...
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New light shed over Watergate 30 years on
WASHINGTON, June 14: Thirty years after the Watergate break-in scandal that led to president Richard Nixon’s 1974 resignation, the tools used by the burglars to break into and wiretap the Democratic...
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108 scientists trapped in Antarctica
JOHANNESBURG, June 14: A South African ship will sail to the Antarctic in a bid to rescue 108 scientists and crew aboard the German vessel Magdalena Oldendorff, trapped in pack ice,...
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Seminar calls for BD-Pak interaction
DHAKA, June 14: The Bangladesh-Pakistan Forum (BPF), formally launched in April, held a day-long seminar on Monday on prospects for closer ties between the two countries....
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Kashmiris have right to choose fate: BD figures
DHAKA, June 14: A group of “concerned citizens” of Bangladesh, in a joint statement, urged the world’s democratic governments and peoples to pressure Pakistan and India to redeem their pledges and...
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BD FM to visit India
DHAKA, June 14: Bangladesh Foreign Minister M. Morshed Khan will pay a two-day visit to New Delhi on Sunday to “discuss bilateral and regional issues”, foreign ministry sources said on Friday....
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Nepal slammed for detaining newsmen
PARIS, June 14: International journalists’ rights organization, Reporters Sans Frontieres, has characterized Nepal, where presently 37 newsmen are detained in its jails, as “the world’s most important prison for journalists”....
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Bush govt debates new Mideast policy
WASHINGTON: The Bush administration strayed into the gray area between internal debate and public feuding this week, as competing interests angled for the ear of President George W. Bush on his...
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Democracy reborn in Afghanistan: Karzai’s tough task
KABUL: A poor Afghan warrior who has spent all his life fighting was deeply insulted when a fashionably dressed upper-class Afghan woman just back from long exile in Paris told him...
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US itching for clash with Iran
LONDON: Unexplained happenings in the skies over Iran raise questions about the opening of a new front in America’s “war on terror.” Last month, Iranian television aired pictures purporting to show...
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The man who fought desert
GIMBIT VAR SDER (Mauritania): It was Abdallah who decided to fight the dunes and push back the desert in Mauritania, an arid country in north-west Africa, with tenacity and common sense...
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Islam finds a place in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Haiti): Tucked away on a corner of the Haitian capital’s dusty, congested Delmas Road, a modest white building bears a curious sign, painstakingly stencilled in green Western and Arabic script....
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First US dissidents speak out against ‘war on terrorism’
LONDON: Let it not be said that people in the United States did nothing when their government declared a war without limit and instituted stark new measures of repression. The signers...
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