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Sharon sabotaged ceasefire moves: Introspection in Israeli press
TEL AVIV, July 24: The death of children and civilians in Monday night’s raid on Gaza city has sparked intensive soul-searching in the Israeli press, with most newspapers questioning the government’s... 
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Asteroid may hit Earth in 2019: expert
LONDON, July 24: A massive asteroid could hit Earth in just 17 years’ time, destroying life as we know it, a British space expert said on Wednesday....
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Truce declaration was ready: paper
RAMALLAH, July 24: A senior Palestinian official on Wednesday accused Israel of launching its bloody air raid in Gaza City to thwart a Palestinian bid to negotiate an end to suicide...
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EU rejects Russian plea in Kaliningrad dispute
BRUSSELS, July 24: The European Union stuck to its guns on Wednesday in a dispute with Russia over visas for residents of the Baltic port of Kaliningrad despite French President Jacques...
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12 Indian states face ‘worst drought’
NEW DELHI, July 24: India is in the grip of “the worst drought in 12 years”, Indian Agriculture Minister Ajit Singh said on Wednesday as the government announced a calamity relief...
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6 killed in Jharkhand strike
RANCHI (India) July 24: Six people were killed on Wednesday in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand in clashes that involved bows and arrows during a strike called by tribal groups...
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Human clone in 6 months, says firm
SEOUL, July 24: South Korean authorities on Wednesday launched a probe into experiments by Clonaid, a US-based human cloning company associated with the Raelin movement, which believes that life on Earth...
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Omar urges Delhi to talk to APHC
NEW DELHI, July 24: Maulvi Omar Farooq, former head of Kashmir’s All Parties Hurriyat Conference, urged India on Wednesday to start talks with the group for a peaceful resolution of the...
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Body of Saro-Wiwa exhumed
LAGOS, July 24: The body of Nigerian minority rights activist and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa, executed seven years ago to worldwide outrage, has been exhumed for a “decent” reburial, his family said...
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Poverty can cripple growth of democracies: UNDP
UNITED NATIONS, July 24: The emerging democracies in many countries could be undermined if they are not followed with a parallel economic growth and could slip back into authoritarian rule, according...
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Karzai struggles to undo secret service : Remnants of Soviet occupation
KABUL: It was the mid-1990s, and Kabul was a battleground for warring Islamic factions. Rocket fire blasted the city. The government was disintegrating. In the chaos, Hamid Karzai, a deputy foreign...
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State Dept, Pentagon at variance: Israeli arms for India
WASHINGTON: As tensions run high between Pakistan and India, US Secretary of State Colin Powell is prepared to tell the Indian government, during his upcoming trip to New Delhi, of his...
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Easing of curbs brings relief
NEW DELHI: The American administration’s recent decision to amend its travel advisory liberalizing its rather terse and forbidding advise to travellers from venturing to India may well be interpreted to mean...
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Harrowing nights for scientists in Antarctica
ST. PETERSBURG: From the deck of his ship captured by ice floes off Antarctica, Yuri Medunitsin stared into the distance and didn’t like what he saw. The sky was dark, as...
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Morocco, Spain dispute unsettled
RABAT: Despite an agreement to end a 10-day feud over a small rocky Mediterranean island, analysts say the territorial conflict between Morocco and Spain remains unresolved....
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Angola’s misery continues
LUANDA (Angola): If you want to grasp the human cost of Angola’s civil war, take a stroll through Independence Square on a Friday afternoon....
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