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Israeli court stays family deportation
 TEL AVIV, Aug 13: The Israeli supreme court on Tuesday stayed an order to deport three relatives of wanted Palestinian militants from the West Bank pending a legal review of the...
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Rebels kill 15 passengers in Indian state
GUWAHATI, Aug 13: At least 15 people were killed and 20 seriously wounded on Tuesday in a brutal pre-independence day attack by separatists in India’s northeastern state of Meghalaya, officials said....
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Rockets hit US base in Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD, Aug 13: Three rockets were fired at a US base in the eastern Afghan city of Khost but caused no casualties, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported on Tuesday....
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US Muslims to mark Sept 11 as ‘day of unity’
LOS ANGELES, Aug 13: The American Muslim Political Coordination Council (AMPCC), made up of the nation’s four most prominent Muslim political advocacy groups, has declared Sept 11 as a “day of...
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US moving military hardware to ME
RIYADH, Aug 13: The United States has started moving military hardware to the Middle East. Sources in the shipping industry have been quoted here as saying that the US Military Sealift...
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France opposes action against Saddam
PARIS, Aug 13: French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin on Monday reaffirmed his country’s opposition to US-British plans to invade Iraq....
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German neo-Nazi was British agent: paper
BERLIN: Germany’s most notorious postwar neo-Nazi party was led by an intelligence agent working for the British, according to both published and unpublished German sources....
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No easy way out for Bush, Saddam
LONDON: Ever since the Bush administration first made it clear that it was serious about overthrowing Saddam Hussein, it has seemed obvious that one way the Iraqi dictator could stymie the...
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Lankans hunt mines with rakes
PARANTHAN (Sri Lanka): The amazing thing about a group of Sri Lankans hunting for landmines in a rebel-held area may not be that they wear sandals and use crude rakes, but...
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Euro: a pact but not a stable one
LONDON: It was meant to the cornerstone of the single currency. Instead it is fast becoming a millstone. In the face of global slowdown the eurozone’s stability and growth pact is...
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Siberians stand in the way of oil pipeline
EVENKIA (Siberia): The Russian oil company Yukos is to build a 2,480km pipeline from Siberia to China to supply oil and gas, after discovering a new oil field in eastern Siberia...
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N-plants may help N. Korea’s economy
KUMHO (North Korea): Sceptics may scoff, but a project to build communist North Korea nuclear reactors at this remote site could one day provide access to revival to a poor country...
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