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Former Enron executive pleads guilty to fraud
HOUSTON, Aug 21: Former Enron Corp. finance executive Michael Kopper on Wednesday became the first insider to plead guilty to a criminal role in the energy giant’s collapse, giving prosecutors ammunition... 
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Kabul says it is ready for probe: ‘Taliban mass grave’
KABUL, Aug 21: The Afghan government said on Wednesday it would cooperate with any inquiry into an alleged mass grave after reports that hundreds of Taliban prisoners of war suffocated to...
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Factional rivalry endangers Aghan security: US general
ASTANA, Aug 21: Inter-factional rivalry in must be curbed in Afghanistan, or it will undermine the government of President Hamid Karzai, US Central Command chief General Tommy Franks warned on Wednesday....
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Landslide claims 60 lives in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Aug 21: At least 60 people were killed on Wednesday in a huge landslide which flattened a village in eastern Nepal, officials said....
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Afghans to get money for leaving Britain
LONDON, Aug 21: The British government has earmarked millions of pounds to be offered to Afghan refugees to return home under a pilot scheme announced here on Wednesday....
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EU tells Israel not to harass diplomats
PARIS, Aug 21: Israel has given in to European, and notably French pressure, and has decided to no longer systematically subject Western diplomats to illegal searches of their vehicles, and sometimes...
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25 Indian soldiers killed by rebels in northeast
GUWAHATI, Aug 21: Twenty-five Indian policemen and paramilitary soldiers were killed in Assam and Tripura on Wednesday and Tuesday by suspected militants, officials said....
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Lake poses threat to villages in China
BEIJING, Aug 21: Thousands of Chinese soldiers reinforced dykes around a lake the size of Luxembourg on Wednesday as it near bursting point, threatening millions of people, state media said....
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Eight die in Moscow explosion
MOSCOW, Aug 21: Rescue workers wrapped up their search on Wednesday through the rubble of a Moscow apartment block partially destroyed by an explosion which killed eight people and wounded several...
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Plan for Alexander the Great’s portrait divides Greeks
ATHENS, Aug 21: Plans to carve a massive stone portrait of Alexander the Great into a Greek mountain ran into protests on Wednesday with critics saying it was pure kitsch not...
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Keynes makes a comeback in Europe
LONDON: No prizes for remembering which British Labour prime minister once solemnly told his party conference that you cannot spend your way out of a recession. With those words in 1976,...
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Russia plans to put Cold War missiles at work
MOSCOW: Russia has announced a radical plan to overhaul more than 100 of its most powerful intercontinental nuclear missiles, which had been destined for the scrapheap under the arms reduction treaties...
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US firm scales down GM hopes in Europe
NEW YORK: Monsanto, the US corporation faced with widespread opposition to its genetically modified products, has conceded that it will take at least another three years before winning approval for their...
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Scientists dream of resurrecting mammoths
TOKYO: A team of Japanese and Russian scientists is pursuing a dream of resurrecting long-extinct mammoths to roam free in a Siberian safari park sanctuary....
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US power icons still undecided: Attack on Iraq
LONDON: Speculation about an imminent American operation to finish the Gulf war is rife. Yet the strategic aims remain uncertain. President Bush focuses on a change of regime. Donald Rumsfeld worries.......
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Food from cloned animals safe for consumers: study
WASHINGTON: Food and biomedical products from cloned and genetically engineered animals pose no significant health risks, but stronger US government oversight must be implemented to ensure its safety, a National Academy...
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