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British govt under fire over arms for Israel
LONDON, July 7: Campaigners against the arms trade accused Britain of hypocrisy on Sunday after reports that London was violating its own guidelines for arms exports by selling fighter jet components... 
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US soldiers stormed houses, maltreated women, say Afghans
DEHRAWAD (Afghanistan), July 7: US soldiers stormed the homes of Afghan villagers after they were bombed in a US air raid last weekend and barred people from treating their wounded relatives,...
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Bush govt has ‘cozy’ ties with corporations: Senate majority leader’s charge
WASHINGTON, July 7: Accusing the Bush administration of a “cozy, permissive relationship” with corporate America, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said on Sunday the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission...
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UK MP accuses Asians of drug links
LONDON, July 7: A British member of parliament sparked a race row on Saturday after accusing gangs of young British Asians of drug dealing, while honest Asians were too frightened and...
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Reliance founder Ambani dies at 69
 MUMBAI, July 7: Dhirubhai Ambani, who rose from humble beginnings to become the billionaire founder of India’s largest business empire, died on Saturday night, 12 days after suffering a second stroke....
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Soldier slaps Japanese journalist
 KABUL, July 7: An Afghan soldier on Sunday slapped a Japanese woman photographer who was trying to get close to a helicopter carrying the coffin of assassinated Vice-President Haji Abdul Qadir...
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US working on plan to break up S.Arabia: Saddam’s son
BAGHDAD, July 7: President Saddam Hussein’s eldest son Uday warned on Sunday of a US plan to launch a military strike on Iraq and break up the region’s countries, including Saudi...
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Newspaper banned in BD
PARIS, July 7: Bangladeshi authorities have withdrawn the publishing license of opposition newspaper Dainik Uttarabanga Barta and have forced a magazine editor into exile, reported Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF)....
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Two Israeli scholars sacked in UK
TEL AVIV, July 7: A British professor has sparked outrage and recrimination by sacking two scholars from her academic journals, allegedly just because they were Israeli....
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Turning point reached in Afghan crisis: Sensitivity over Pakhtoon factor
WASHINGTON: US officials have concluded after 10 months of war that the combat mission of US conventional military troops in Afghanistan is largely over and that whatever fighting remains is likely...
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US plans ‘to attack Iraq via Jordan’
LONDON-AMMAN: American military planners are preparing to use Jordan as a base for an assault on Iraq later this year, or early in 2003, The Observer has revealed....
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Markets view return to textbook accounting
LONDON: Ten days ago something extraordinary happened in the markets. It had nothing to do with the five-year stock market lows, or the worries over accounting scandals. No, the foreign exchange...
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New party by Brezhnev’s grandson
MOSCOW: He is the grandson of a Soviet tyrant who wants to reunite Russians as workers and equals. Yet he is also a successful businessman, who owns an American-style bar on...
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Syria moves to attract regional tourists
DAMASCUS, July 7: Syria is launching its first tourism and shopping month in a bid to attract Arab visitors from the Gulf, following in the footsteps of other countries in the...
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