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US to attack nations in ‘self-defence’: Rumsfeld spells out military policy
WASHINGTON, July 23: A US military strike on Iraq or any other country developing nuclear, chemical or biological weapons would essentially be “self-defence”, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Monday.... 
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Moscow exterminating Chechen youth: HR body
MOSCOW, July 23: The head of a top world rights watchdog on Tuesday accused the Russian military of executing up to 80 Chechen men a month to “thin out” the republic’s...
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US army to carry out massive exercise
WASHINGTON, July 23: Some 13,500 people in 26 locations across the United States will take part in one of the largest US Army exercises in history beginning Wednesday and lasting three...
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Plummeting market affects Bush popularity
WASHINGTON, July 23: Two recent opinion polls show that an increasing number of American voters disapprove of the way President George W. Bush is handling the economy and feel that it...
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Cholesterol drugs may cut Alzheimer’s risk
STOCKHOLM, July 23: Cholesterol-busting drugs, widely used to reduce the risk of heart attack, may also help cut the incidence of Alzheimer’s disease, scientists said on Tuesday....
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US soldiers entrusted with Karzai’s security
NEW YORK, July 23: US soldiers, including commndos, will move into the Afghan presidential palace and take over responsibility for the security of President Hamid Karzai, illustrating concern for his safety...
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US flayed for cutting UNFPA funds
UNITED NATIONS, July 23: Diplomats and officials at the United Nations were shocked at the Bush administration’s decision to stop its contribution for the UN Population Fund asserting that the move...
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FBI blamed for anti-Muslim graffiti
DETROIT, July 23: A US Muslim advocacy group on Monday accused federal agents of scrawling anti-Muslim graffiti last week in the home of an Arab-American man arrested in Detroit allegedly carrying...
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Aga Khan signs agreement with Zanzibar govt
ZANZIBAR (Tanzania), July 23: The Aga Khan and Zanzibar’s Chief Minister Shamsi Vuai Nahodha on Tuesday signed an agreement to implement a rehabilitation plan for the seafront area of Zanzibar’s “Stone...
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Palestinians cry out for revenge
GAZA: It was a quiet night in the overcrowded Gaza City quarter of Daraj and 27-year-old Imman Hassan Mattar was breastfeeding her two-month-old baby girl Dunia....
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Sudan’s path to peace is bumpy
NAIROBI: The people of Sudan face their best chance of peace in years but analysts say silencing the guns will take much more work by negotiators trying to end a long...
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US abandons efforts to cultivate Khatami
WASHINGTON: The Bush administration has abandoned hopes it can work with President Mohammad Khatami and his reformist allies in the Iranian government and is turning its attention to appealing directly to...
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Afghan govt split over US bombings
LONDON: US military investigators are to travel to a village in Afghanistan later this week to try to explain why an American AC-130 gunship killed at least 48 civilians in a...
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Pentagon to befriend China
WASHINGTON: The Pentag-on is considering steps to intensify military ties with China after indications from Beijing that it will allow more transparency and access in the relationship, according to US defence...
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Chinese adopt rare tigers
SHANGHAI: In a sign of changing times in China, rare Siberian tigers in the country’s northeast, usually hunted so their bones can be used in medicines, are instead being “adopted” by...
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Official links raid to Omar
BAGRAM AIR BASE: Fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar may have been in the immediate vicinity of a US bombing raid on July 1 that killed dozens of civilians attending a wedding...
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Why Africa is at the bottom and America in the West
LONDON: In a quiet, air-conditioned wing of the British Library, a pane of glass separates the pushed-up faces of onlookers and some of the oldest maps in the world....
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Kuwait plea to US
KUWAIT CITY, July 23: Kuwait on Monday called on the United States to grant its citizens detained at the Camp X-Ray the right to defend themselves and to see their family...
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