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Rains leave flooded Europe in chaos
SALZBURG (Austria), Aug 12: Deadly floods wreaked havoc across Europe on Monday, with the Austrian city of Salzburg declared a disaster area and a major German autobahn shut down as torrential... 
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Mugabe tells whites to surrender land to blacks
HARARE, Aug 12: Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe told white farmers in a fiery speech on Monday that he will stick to the August deadline for giving their lands to blacks....
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US, Jordan hold wargames
AMMAN, Aug 12: US-Jordan military exercises began on Monday in the southern desert part of the country amid heightened tensions over a possible pre-emptive US attack on Iraq, officials and diplomats...
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Suharto can’t speak: doctors
JAKARTA, Aug 12: Indonesian doctors assigned to examine whether former president Suharto is fit to stand trial for graft said on Monday the 81-year old couldn’t speak properly and his memory...
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Australia to profile tourist visa seekers
SYDNEY, Aug 12: The Australian government rejected charges on Monday that proposals to expand profiling of tourist visa applicants in a bid to curb illegal immigration were racist or would harm...
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Mother angry after baby given name of horse
ROME, Aug 12: An outraged Italian mother has gone to court after her husband furtively named their newborn son after a prize-winning horse....
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Cloned calves make human antibodies
WASHINGTON, Aug 12: A growing herd of cloned calves may provide a variety of human antibodies to treat diseases ranging from childhood ear infections to smallpox, researchers said on Monday....
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Kurds poised to fire the first shots: Operation to overthrow Saddam
BAGHDAD: The Kurds of Iraq are girding for war. Guerrillas, known as peshmergas, are working day and night hauling sandbags, digging trenches and bulldozing mountain roads to their front lines....
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Ride to highlight plight of illegal immigrants
LOS ANGELES: More than 40 years after the famous civil rights Freedom Riders challenged segregation in the southern states, a new Freedom Ride is being planned to champion the rights of...
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Being a man can be bad for health: study
CHICAGO: Being a man can be bad for your health — at any age — researchers say in a study. Long after the dangerous excesses of youth, men are more likely...
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Heroin labs back in business
KABUL: Hundreds of kilos of heroin are being manufactured each week by factories recently set up in eastern Afghanistan, prompting fears of a new influx of high-quality, easily transportable drugs into...
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Why war does not pay for democracies
LONDON: War has been good for the United States economy. Only Vietnam bucked the trend that held sway from the Civil War to the Gulf conflict....
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Japan’s rice growing culture in danger
SUGITO (Japan): Rice farmer Noboru Yamazaki, 57, vividly remembers the crop failure of 1993....
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British PM should stay away from Iraq
LONDON: Saddam Hussein raised a dyed black eyebrow when I asked him last week in an underground bunker in Baghdad if he’d seen the picture of the British foreign office minister...
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