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Police use force to break up protest: UN Earth Summit
 JOHANNESBURG, Aug 24: South African police fired stun grenades on Saturday at around 500 protesters during an unauthorized march in Johannesburg against the upcoming UN Earth Summit as diplomats held last-ditch...
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Czech plant leaks deadly gas after floods
PRAGUE, Aug 24: Several hundred kilograms of highly poisonous chlorine gas leaked into the air in Friday’s accident at a flooded chemicals plant in the Czech Republic, the company running the...
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Kalam on collision course with BJP
NEW DELHI, Aug 24: India’s ruling Hindu nationalists were on a collision course on Saturday with President Abdul Kalam, asking him to change his mind on a thorny electoral decree which...
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West Nile virus kills 16 in US
CHICAGO, Aug 24: Authorities in Illinois, New York, Michigan and Ohio reported four more deaths suspected to be from the mosquito-borne West Nile virus, possibly adding to the list of 16...
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3 ministers to attend talks with LTTE
COLOMBO, Aug 24: The Sri Lankan government announced a four-member team to represent Colombo at the talks to be held in Thailand next month with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam...
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US State Dept to protect Karzai
WASHINGTON, Aug 24: The US State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service is to take over Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s security detail next month, a State Department official said on Saturday....
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US forces attacked in Afghanistan
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Aug 24: US special forces have come under grenade attack in eastern Afghanistan, a military spokesman said on Saturday....
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Israel puts pullout deal on hold
TEL AVIV, Aug 24: An Israeli-Palestinian arrangement to ease Israel’s military clampdown on Palestinian areas stalled on Saturday with violence in the Gaza Strip and the failure of joint security talks...
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NZ reporter dies in accident near Kabul
KABUL, Aug 24: A New Zealand freelance reporter was killed in a road accident just outside the Afghan capital of Kabul, international peacekeepers said on Saturday....
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Playing of anthem sparks coup rumours
ACCRA, Aug 24: Playing the national anthem should be dignified and kept for “solemn and national occasions” Ghana’s media watchdog ruled Saturday..... ...
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China on high alert as swollen lake nears peak
DONGTING LAKE (China), Aug 24: More than a million people, including soldiers and farmers, on Saturday prepared to battle a flood crest expected in the next 24 hours on China’s swollen...
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Checks on Muslims coming to US sought
WASHINGTON: US authorities should check the political and ideological background of every Muslim coming to the United States to prevent militant Islam from reaching North America, argued policy analysts at a...
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Opposition growing in US to Iraq invasion
WASHINGTON: President George Bush found himself dealing with an unaccustomed degree of dissent on Friday with the publication of a poll showing growing opposition to an invasion of Iraq and a...
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Development summit is about national interests: Clash of political philosophies
WASHINGTON: As world leaders gather near Johannesburg for next week’s World Summit on Sustainable Development, two major issues have already begun to dominate the agenda: water and genetically modified (GM) food...
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From Sea of Japan to sea without a name
NEW YORK: South Korea and Japan will square off over the name of the vast sea separating them at an international conference on geographic names next week in Berlin....
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Issues to be discussed at Johannesburg
JOHANNESBURG: There were five original themes for the summit: water, energy, health, agriculture and bio-diversity, but in a challenge to the White House the summit’s secretary general has produced a new...
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