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100,000 evacuated in Germany: Floods threaten cultural treasures
DRESDEN (Germany), Aug 16: Record floods engulfed the historic eastern German city of Dresden on Friday, swamping its Baroque architecture and driving thousands from their homes.... 
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Chechens kill five policemen
MOSCOW, Aug 16: A series of guerilla attacks in Chechnya on Friday left at least 17 people dead, including five pro-Russian policemen and seven civilians....
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Monster floods ravage Prague
PRAGUE, Aug 16: Czechs started counting the cost of the worst flood in memory as the first of more than 200,000 people displaced by the surging currents returned to their homes...
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4 killed in Dhaka firing
DHAKA, Aug 16: The Bangladesh government on Friday ordered a judicial probe into an overnight clash in Dhaka during which armed militias guarding a mosque on disputed land opened fire leaving...
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Huge fire breaks out in Kabul
KABUL, August 16: A huge fire broke out on Friday at a timber yard close to a fuel market in the northern part of Kabul, police and witnesses said....
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Web gang & banking
JOHANNESBURG, Aug 16: South African investigators said on Friday they had arrested a gang of suspected Internet racketeers who fooled people into sending them money by posing as the central bank....
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Chirac names new chief of intelligence
PARIS, Aug 16: Pierre Brochand, 60, has been named new director of France’s intelligence agency — Direction Generale de la Securite Exterieure (DGSE)....
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French DNA ban renews Napoleon corpse doubts
PARIS: Is Napoleon really at rest in a Paris tomb or did British captors spirit his corpse away from his St. Helena exile in a plot to hide from history his...
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Africa shies away from GM food
CAPE TOWN: Half the countries facing famine in southern Africa are stalling food aid from the United States fearing that genetically modified (GM) maize may cause health problems and harm their...
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Saudis face tough balancing act: Post-Sept 11 scenario
LONDON: Saudi Arabia’s ageing rulers face an increasingly tough balancing act in the polarized world which emerged from the September 11 attacks, analysts say....
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UK to import blood plasma
LONDON: Babies and children undergoing serious operations will be given blood plasma imported from the United States in the first safety measures to be announced since scientists confirmed the risk of...
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Soft drinks giants battle charges of eco destruction
NEW DELHI: Soft drinks giants Coca-Cola and Pepsi are battling charges in India that they have painted advertisements on ecologically sensitive rock faces along a stretch of highway running through beautiful...
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2 foolish reasons for attacking Baghdad
LONDON: In 1915, a grim year in European history, an eminent German social scientist named Werner Sombart published a remarkably well written piece of German war propaganda, entitled Merchants and Heroes....
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Elvis still lives on for fans worldwide
LONDON: Twenty-five years after his death, fans the world over are still All Shook Up by Elvis Presley — from the weeping statue of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll in...
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