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65 drown as ferry capsizes in India
KUMARAKOM (India) July 27: Around 65 people drowned when a boat packed beyond its 100-passenger capacity sank in a lake in the southern Indian coastal state of Kerala, officials said on... 
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33 Iranians jailed for trying to topple govt
TEHRAN, July 27: A Tehran court dissolved the opposition Iran Freedom Movement (IFM) on Saturday and sentenced 33 of its members to up to 10 years in jail in a move...
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Flash-floods reach Guwahati outskirts
GUWAHATI, July 27: Army soldiers were called out on Saturday as flash-floods burst a critical embankment on the outskirts of India’s largest northeastern city, trapping some 8,000 inhabitants in swirling waters....
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Israeli raid outrages Arab world
RIYADH, July 27: Depicting the overall Arab mood, virtually all the Saudi newspapers have been carrying on their front pages the photograph of a two-month-old Palestinian child killed in Israeli bombing...
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Display of pygmies angers Africans
BRUSSELS, July 27: An exhibit featuring singing and dancing pygmies in a small Belgian town has enraged African immigrants and sparked a protest involving some 100 people, local media reported on...
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6,000 BD students protest police action
DHAKA, July 27: Hundreds of security personnel ringed Bangladesh’s premier Dhaka University on Saturday as more than 6,000 students staged angry demonstrations demanding the resignation of the school head after a...
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Landmine conference begins in Afghanistan today
KABUL, July 27: A major international conference on landmines opens on Sunday in Afghanistan — one of the world’s most heavily mined countries — that will seek to highlight the devastation...
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Beggars forced to marry
KOLKATA, July 27: A Muslim jury forced a beggar and a widow to get married and paraded them in the streets of an eastern Indian village after suspecting they were having...
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Right-wing controls US foreign policy
WASHINGTON: Ret. Gen. Colin Powell is unquestionably the most popular US Secretary of State in the last half century, if not in US history....
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France looking for an enhanced role: Pakistan-India ties
PARIS: French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin is to arrive in Islamabad on Aug 3 after a stopover in New Delhi the previous day, with the declared objective of continuing...
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Iran to become Trade Bridge for Afghanistan
DOQARUN, (Iran): An area that was once little more than a deserted wasteland between Iran and Afghanistan is becoming a thriving border crossing where a new brick building houses a customs...
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US invites Iraqi opposition for talks
WASHINGTON: The Bush administration has invited key leaders of the Iraqi opposition for a meeting next month with senior officials from the State and Defense Departments in a bid to end...
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UK’s ties with Libya begin to thaw
LONDON: A British government minister is to visit Libya for the first time in nearly 20 years after what the UK Foreign Office on Friday night described as a “hard-headed assessment”...
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Prisons free 900 inmates following HR ruling
LONDON: Prisons in England and Wales on Friday began to free 900 of some of their most troublesome inmates in the wake of a human rights ruling that governors’ punishment hearings...
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Was Israel’s assassination of Salah Shehada a war crime?
LONDON: Israel’s “targeted killing” of the head of the military wing of Hamas in Gaza this week unleashed a storm of protest, for the missile fired into a densely packed residential...
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Guantanamo job for Cheney firm subsidiary
WASHINGTON, July 27: The US navy on Friday awarded a 9.7-million-dollar contract to build cells for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a subsidiary of a company once run by Vice...
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Kuwaitis to get masks for C-attack
KUWAIT CITY, July 27: The Kuwaiti cabinet held a high-level meeting on Friday to finalize an emergency plan to be followed in case of a US attack on Iraq....
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Norwegians refuse to board Lankan ships
COLOMBO, July 27: The Norwegian team monitoring the ceasefire agreement in Sri Lanka has decided not to accompany local officials to any intercepted ship following an incident in which the Tamil...
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