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Turkey joins Iran against attack: Resolution of Iraq crisis
TEHRAN, Sept 1: Key US ally Turkey and long time foe Iran said here on Sunday they wanted Washington to resolve its differences with Iraq through “peaceful means”, rejecting US plans... 
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Typhoon leaves over 80 dead in South Korea
 SEOUL, Sept 1: More than 80 people were feared dead or missing Sunday as Typhoon Rusa lashed South Korea, bringing record rainfall to parts of the country and triggering landslides and...
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ICC body to start work from tomorrow
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 1: The governing body of the International Criminal Court (ICC) meets here for the first time on Tuesday, while the United States continues its efforts to put its...
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Inspection of Boeing planes ordered
WASHINGTON, Sept 1: Concern about faulty fuel pumps prompted the US government on Friday to order inspections of more than 1,000 Boeing 737s, 747s and 757s in the United States, the...
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Swedish police face deadline in hijack case
STOCKHOLM, Sept 1: Swedish police scrambled on Sunday to meet a legal deadline to charge a man of Tunisian origin suspected of a plane hijack plot just days before the first...
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Iran, Syria discuss ‘threats’ to Arabs
DAMASCUS, Sept 1: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad discussed the “campaign of threats” against Arab and Muslim states here on Sunday with an Iranian envoy carrying a message from Iranian leader Mohammed...
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One hurt as two bombs explode in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Sept 1: Suspected Maoist rebels detonated two bombs in the Nepalese capital early on Sunday, injuring one person, while other insurgents torched and damaged more than 20 cars in a...
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Film to show how militants obtain funding
PARIS, Sept 1: A how-to guide for financing political terrorism and religious extremism to be broadcast on Sept 2 on the Franco-German educational channel Arte — provides detailed information on how...
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Iraq prepares to host first Saudi visit since 1991
BAGHDAD, Sept 1: A member of the Saudi royal family is due in Baghdad on Monday on the first such visit since the 1991 Gulf war, an official source said on...
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US Muslim conference debates Jihad, Qitaal concepts
WASHINGTON, Sept 1: The difference between Jihad, an Arabic word for struggle, and Qitaal, another Arabic term used for the permission to fight for the country or faith, generated an interesting...
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New members to stir new problems: Enlargement of Nato
BRUSSELS: Imagine if freedom and security spanned the European continent, from the Atlantic and the Mediterranean to the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea....
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Banditry hinders aid to Afghans
LONDON: A surge in banditry, crime and random violence is threatening to plunge Afghanistan into anarchy as millions face starvation this winter....
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Why did US ignore Saddam’s assault?: Use of chemical weapons
LONDON: When it comes to demonizing Saddam Hussein, nothing captures the popular imagination in America better than the statement that ‘he gassed his own people’. This is an allusion to the...
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Europe is ecstasy factory
LONDON: Europe has become one of the biggest drug-producing regions in the world, according to new ecstasy seizure statistics from the US....
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US military fears Iraq could sap anti-terror effort
WASHINGTON: As the Bush administration intensifies talk about toppling Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, military officials are confronting what some see as a looming problem: that by launching a war in the...
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Horrifying footage of last days of Raj
LONDON: They are images that will change the way we think about the British Empire. Since the last days of the Raj, historians have wrangled over the imperial legacy in India,...
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