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Torrential rains ravage Asia: Flood crests move down Elbe
HONG KONG, Aug 18: Torrential rains and flashfloods have ravaged large tracts of Asia this monsoon season, leaving hundreds dead and millions displaced, with China suffering some of the worst effects.... 
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Sharp Saudi reaction to lawsuit
RIYADH, Aug 18: Saudi opinion makers and the Saudi charities, blamed in a lawsuit in USA for allegedly funding the Al Qaeda organization have reacted sharply to the accusations....
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Mysterious prowler is from space: police
NEW DELHI, Aug 18: Intelligence bureau officials claimed that a “face-scratching” prowler terrorizing villagers in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is an extra-terrestrial being, news reports said on Sunday....
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Paris to host ME moot in October
PARIS, Aug 18: The Quai d’Orsay has confirmed that Paris will host an international meeting on Palestine here on October 21 — 23....
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Sleepy town mourns lost little girls as two graves found
SOHAM (England) Aug 18: A sleepy rural English town plunged into mourning for two missing schoolgirls on Sunday after a couple were arrested on suspicion of their murder and two bodies...
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S. Arabia issues licences for lawyers
RIYADH, Aug 18: Saudi Arabia’s justice ministry has started issuing licences for lawyers in a bid to regulate the legal profession as part of reforms to the Islamic justice system, experts...
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UN ready to go to Iraq on ‘own terms’: Blix
LONDON, Aug 18: The United Nations is ready to send inspectors back into Iraq to check for weapons of mass destruction, but only on its terms, chief UN weapons inspector Hans...
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2 UK soldiers did not die of hostile fire
KABUL, Aug 18: British soldiers held a church service at their base here on Sunday in memory of two colleagues who were killed in a shooting incident at Kabul airport....
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No Al Qaeda leaders in Cuba: report
WASHINGTON, Aug 18: No leader of Al Qaeda has been found among the 598 detainees held on a US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Los Angeles Times reported on...
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US approves evacuation plans
CRAWFORD, Texas, Aug 17: The Bush administration has approved plans aimed at speeding the evacuation of federal workers in the nation’s capital in the event of an attack using weapons of...
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No clear sign of next US move: Attack on Iraq
WASHINGTON: As the debate intensifies about the merits of American military action to topple Iraq’s Saddam Hussein, the Bush administration is purposely refraining from making a detailed case for such a...
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Israelis stoke hunger as Gaza farms uprooted
SHEIKH IJLEEN (Gaza Strip): Omar al-Najar sat in the dirt and gazed mournfully at his grapevines, severed when Israeli army bulldozers rolled on to his ancestral land and uprooted his plants...
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Deadly cancer-causing chemical found in fried foods
LONDON: Acrylamide is a chemical used in the manufacture of plastics and the treatment of water. It is also carcinogenic. But what nobody knew until recently was that it occurs at...
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Kazakhstan elicits US help for N-weapons
UST-KAMENOGORSK (Kazakhstan): Scientists at a secret ex-Soviet nuclear weapons plant who once churned out weapons-grade uranium for submarines now enlist Cold War foe Washington’s help to keep their know-how from falling...
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