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Polls will bring only bloodshed: Kashmiris
SRINAGAR, Aug 10: Elections slated for occupied Kashmir next month will only bring bloodshed and division and not the peace the Indian government is hoping for, residents of Srinagar warned on... 
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US House leader opposes invasion: No timetable for Iraq attack: Bush
WASHINGTON, Aug 10: US House Majority Leader Dick Armey on Friday warned against an unprovoked US attack on Iraq....
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Cairo press sees anti-Arab plot
CAIRO, Aug 10: US threats against Iraq are part of a wider conspiracy against the Arab world evidenced in US support for Israel and its sponsorship of a peace deal that...
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United States pledges aid to strengthen Afghan security
WASHINGTON, Aug 10: The US Senate has pledged millions of dollars of additional aid to Afghanistan to prevent it from slipping further into chaos and disarray, official sources told Dawn on...
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UK missing girls: two arrested
 LONDON, Aug 10: Police fear that two British schoolgirls who disappeared last week may have been lured from their homes by an online paedophile posing as a teenager on the Internet....
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SA reveals arms sales to India, Pakistan
CAPE TOWN, Aug 10: South Africa has sold arms to Pakistan, India, Rwanda and Zimbabwe in the past two years, according to a report released by the government which has prompted...
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Israelis deploy missiles
TEL AVIV, Aug 10: Israel is building a second state-of-the-art anti-missile battery in the centre of the country to fend off Iraqi attacks in the event of a US assault on...
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British court rules against Afghan family
LONDON, Aug 10: A court in London has ruled that that the two children of an Afghan couple, forcefully removed from a mosque a few weeks ago, must stay with the...
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President must complete term: Lankan PM
COLOMBO, Aug 10: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Saturday that he would not in any way hinder President Kumaratunge from completing her tenure and would not encourage any...
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Saddam woos Arab friends & enemies: Attack on Iraq
LONDON: As the US fights an uphill battle to win support for an invasion of Iraq, Baghdad has been quietly gathering declarations of sympathy — if not outright support — in...
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Ban takes West Bank into the Middle Ages
RAMALLAH: For Jabar Ziyaada the daily drive with a truckload of chicken across a hazardous stretch of wasteland to northern Ramallah is a matter of economic survival....
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Bugging scandal lands Mitterrand allies in court
PARIS: Twenty years after the event, the full truth of the scandal known as France’s Watergate may finally come out following a decision this week to send for trial 12 men...
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Animal lovers clash with farmers over wolves
BERLIN: After a 150-year absence, wolves are back in remote parts of eastern Germany....
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World’s wealth still relies on nature
LONDON: Preservation of the world’s remaining wilderness could be the ultimate bargain. Scientists and economists calculate that forests, wetlands and other natural ecosystems are worth far more to human economies than...
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Blair faces revolt over support to Washington
LONDON: British prime minister Tony Blair on Thursday night faced an internal party revolt over Iraq as union leaders prepared to table emergency anti-war resolutions at this autumn’s Trades Union Congress...
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Tanaka tenders surprise resignation
TOKYO: The surprise resignation from Parliament on Friday of former Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka, one of Japan’s few prominent female legislators, dismayed many here and had tongues wagging about the ironic...
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