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Referendum will bring disaster: China’s warning to Taiwan
BEIJING, Aug 5: China warned Taiwan’s President Chen Shui-bian on Monday that he was leading his people towards “disaster” by calling for a referendum on the island’s future, and said it... 
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Favouritism charge hits BJP in parliament
NEW DELHI, Aug 5: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Monday ordered the cancellation of all allotments of petrol pumps and cooking gas agencies made over the past two years...
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Blair, Chirac agree on pan-European force
PARIS, Aug 5: French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair have signed a joint statement declaring not only that France and Britain are seriously intent on bringing about...
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US dismisses Iraqi offer to congressmen
BAGHDAD, Aug 5: The Iraqi parliament on Monday asked US congressional leaders to send a fact-finding team to Baghdad to check if Iraq is developing weapons of mass destruction, just days...
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Strike cripples life in West Bengal
KOLKATA, Aug 5: Rail transport and business in West Bengal ground to a halt on Monday due to a strike called by the opposition over plans by the central government to...
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‘Urgency’ needed on asylum issue: UK body
LONDON, Aug 5: More than two million migrants are expected to arrive in the United Kingdom over the next decade, according to a campaign group, Migration Watch UK....
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Legionnaires’ disease in Britain
BARROW-IN-FURNESS (England), Aug 5: Fifty-six cases of Legionnaires’ disease have been confirmed in northern England in the biggest British outbreak of the bug for around a decade, medical authorities said on...
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French kids face harsh law
PARIS, Aug 5: Under a new law that was adopted on Saturday, French schoolchildren will now be imprisoned for talking back to their teachers....
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Post-Saddam scenario nagging US officials: War hysteria building up
WASHINGTON: The rumble of war drums for Gulf War II began in early spring. That’s when Ken Pollack got the call from Random House asking if he could speed-write a book...
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Iranian rulers face new challenge
TEHRAN: Loosely veiled and wearing heavy makeup, young women line the main streets in northern Tehran, looking out for prosperous customers in new cars....
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Gene for meatiest lamb chops
SYDNEY: Australian scientists have begun work on a A$15 million (US$8.1 million) project to track down the gene that produces the meatiest lamb chops....
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Hiroshima reminds world of N-folly
 HIROSHIMA: “Atomic bombs are a matter of life and death for humanity and the leaders who talk of using them must come to Hiroshima to see how devastating the bombs are....
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NY learning to fight terrorist attacks
NEW YORK: An accidental chemical explosion shakes a Manhattan college, street manhole covers pop near the Empire State Building, a power plant fire billows plumes of black smoke....
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Power struggle between Karzai, Fahim flares up
KABUL: A smouldering power struggle between Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s US-backed president, and Mohammed Fahim, the ambitious defence minister who commands thousands of loyal troops, has flared into serious confrontation in recent...
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