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Cheney, Rumsfeld oppose initiative: Bush puts off speech on ME
WASHINGTON, June 19: The White House on Wednesday condemned the suicide bombing in occupied Al Quds and said its immediate aftermath was not the right time for President George W. Bush... 
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Flight chaos in Europe as controllers stop work
PARIS, June 19: Travellers across Europe suffered flight chaos on Wednesday caused by a strike led by French air traffic controllers protesting plans for a united European airspace....
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Egypt, Jordan slam ‘interim’ state idea
AMMAN, June 19: Jordan and Egypt cast doubt on Wednesday on proposals for a provisional Palestinian state being considered by the United States and condemned Israel’s threat to reoccupy Palestinian land...
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Sept 11 attacks took three years to plan: officials
WASHINGTON, June 19: Al Qaeda guerillas began planning the Sept 11 attacks in the United States soon after they bombed two US embassies in East Africa in Aug 1998, The New...
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World united in front of TV sets for World Cup
BERLIN, June 19: The world is watching the beautiful game. It is doubtful any other event in history attracted as many television viewers as this year’s World Cup in Japan and South Korea. Ratings for the always popular quadrennial tournament have soared......
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Kalam finds it hard to shed his traits
NEW DELHI, June 19: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, India’s colourful rocket scientist, on Wednesday came across more as a professor than a politician in his first encounter with the local and international...
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Muslim minister under criticism in France
PARIS, June 19: French Veterans Affairs Minister Hamlaoui Mekachera, a Muslim, has come under severe criticism from his own community....
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23 killed as cult leader’s arrest angers followers
 CEBU (Philippines), June 19: At least 23 people died in a night of violence which erupted as Philippine police went to arrest the politically well-connected leader of a cult accused of...
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Indian troops get chemical weapons kits
NEW DELHI, June 19: India’s state-owned Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO) on Wednesday said that it had developed and supplied the country’s security forces with decontamination kits to guard against...
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Amnesty team to meet LTTE
COLOMBO, June 19: Human rights activists in the Northeast of the country will meet visiting officials of Amnesty International in Jaffna on Thursday (today)....
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Scavenger dodges US soldiers
BAGRAM AIR BASE, June 19: An Afghan man scavenging in a rubbish dump at Bagram Air Base, the command post for US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, escaped after a scuffle with...
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Waste-based power plant for Dhaka
DHAKA, June 19: An old proposal to set up a 60-megawatt power plant based on waste generated in Dhaka has been resurrected by the Asian Development Bank and is to be...
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Russia abandons Belarus in the cold
MINSK: Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko, dubbed Europe’s last dictator by Washington, seems more isolated than ever as his one-time mentor, Russia, snuggles up to his critics in the West....
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Palestinian town dreads Israel’s ‘Berlin Wall’
RUMANI (West Bank): When Palestinians in this West Bank village hear the groan of Israeli bulldozers on hills along the nearby border with Israel, they worry that their world is about...
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Churchill’s wartime worries: beer, grammar, rubbish
LONDON: Even in the middle of World War Two, Winston Churchill still had time to worry about rubbish in the streets, the finer points of English grammar and whether his troops...
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Dilemma of ‘moderate’ Muslims in Britain
LONDON: A week before the bombardment of Afghanistan began last October, Tony Blair invited a selection of Muslim leaders to Downing Street to win their support....
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Pitfalls of global warming
LONDON: As the US finally concedes that global warming is happening, dramatic new data is emerging on the impact of “natural” disasters. Neither rich nor poor countries can escape, but the...
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Discontent growing in Haiti
HINCHE (Haiti): The people of Haiti’s Central Plateau have a long history of rebellion — from escaped slaves who helped evict would-be conquerors to Charlemagne Peralte, a former army officer who...
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