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Russia reaps benefits of siding with West
MOSCOW: After years spent groping for a clear role in the post-Soviet world, Russia finally launched itself along a new track in foreign policy after the September 11 terrorist attacks.... 
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Ecological decline worse than stated
JOHANNESBURG: The real level of world inequality and environmental degradation may be far worse than official estimates, according to a leaked document prepared for the world’s richest countries and seen by...
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Karadzic turning into a legend
HAN PIJESAK (Bosnia-Herzegovina): Nato’s failed attempts to put Radovan Karadzic, Europe’s most wanted war crime suspect, behind bars is feeding the legend of an elusive hero, developed by Bosnian Serbs who...
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Mandela breaks taboo on Aids
JOHANNESBURG: Nelson Mandela has waded deeper into the controversy over the South African government’s Aids policies by becoming the first African National Congress leader to say publicly that he has lost...
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Cultural gap challenges N. Korean students
SEOUL: The teachers had been warned that their summer school students might have strange ideas, but science instructor Park Myong-suk was flabbergasted when several approached her with a particular concern....
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The hammerhead mystery
LONDON: Researchers have solved the mystery of one of nature’s oddest designs — the T-junction head of the hammerhead shark....
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US decision to bypass Nato displeases Europeans
BRUSSELS: European Union governments were quick off the mark to join US President George W. Bush’s war against terrorism, pledging troops, equipment and money to America’s battle against Osama bin Laden...
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Riyadh to try man wanted by US
RIYADH, Aug 26: Saud Al Rasheed, the 21-year-old Saudi, listed by the FBI as a terror suspect and who handed his name over to the Saudi authorities late last week, will...
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Blasts put Kabul’s UN community on high alert
KABUL, Aug 26: Afghanistan’s capital is in a state of high alert following a series of recent explosions — including one...
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HR bodies move to stop Zionist website
PARIS, Aug 26: French human rights groups have decided to go to court to attempt to put a halt to a new Zionist racist website — www.amisraelhai.org — that has been...
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Congress approval not needed: White House on Iraq attack
Washington, Aug 26: Lawyers working for President George W. Bush have concluded he does not need additional congressional approval to order military action against Iraq, White House officials said....
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Author likens invasion to deliberate murder
EDINBURGH, Aug 26: British writer Harold Pinter called Prime Minister Tony Blair on Sunday a “war criminal” and said an attack against Iraq by US and British forces would be deliberate...
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Saudi Arabia, Syria warn against war
JEDDAH, Aug 26: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah warned on Monday that launching war on Iraq would destabilize the region and lead to a human tragedy, the...
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NZ’s first Muslim lawmaker
WELLINGTON, Aug 26: History was made in New Zealand’s parliament on Monday with the seating of the South Pacific country’s first Muslim lawmaker, but he had to bring his own copy...
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