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EU asks GCC to endorse Middle East peace plan
RIYADH, Sept 3: Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller has urged the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member states to endorse the European Union peace plan for the Middle East.... 
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US officials want to end Osama hunt: daily
WASHINGTON, Sept 3: Top officials heading US military’s Special Operations units want to call off the hunt for Osama bin Laden, who they believe is dead, the New York Times reported...
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Curiosity gets suspect nabbed
ROME, Sept 3: A man suspected of involvement in an 8.6-million-euro (8.5-million-dollar) hold-up in Germany was arrested in Italy because he did too much communicating about the heist over the Internet,...
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Britain to publish dossier on Iraq
LONDON, Sept 3: British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday that his government would publish in a few weeks a document containing evidence that Iraq is making weapons of mass...
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US plotting to balkanize ME: Arab League
RIYADH, Sept 3: With the intensification of the diplomatic flurry throughout the Arab world to discuss the available options in case of US military assault on Baghdad, a special session of...
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Afghanistan slipping back into chaos: paper
NEW YORK, Sept 3: The rising incidence of explosions, bombings and other attacks in recent weeks, and reports that one troublesome warlord may be reassembling his troops, heightened apprehensions that Afghanistan...
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BD court refuses to admit president’s resignation case
DHAKA, Sept 3: A vacation bench of the High Court division of the Bangladesh Supreme Court has turned down a writ petition, challenging former President Professor Badruddoza Chowdhury’s resignation nine weeks...
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Politicians leave poor high and dry: Earth Summit waffles on
JOHANNESBURG: The Earth Summit in Johannesburg had the ambitious target of drafting the architecture to save an ailing planet from the devastating effects of human exploitation. But after almost two weeks...
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Taliban POWs massacre stirs debate
WASHINGTON: The alleged massacre of hundreds of Taliban prisoners in the custody of a pro-US Afghan warlord appears to be developing into a major human rights controversy as militia commanders admitted...
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Is oil pushing US to attack Iraq?
NEW YORK: When US Vice President Dick Cheney unleashed an attack against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, forswearing that a military action against Baghdad was the only option left to unseat the...
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African leaders at one with Mugabe
JOHANNESBURG: If Namibia’s Sam Nujoma hoped to change the way the west treats Africa, Tony Blair was probably not the best man to savage in his speech at the Earth Summit...
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Mass grave of Napoleon’s retreating 1812 army found
VILNIUS (Lithuania): Thousands of corpses of the footsoldiers who perished in Napoleon’s disastrous 1812 retreat from Moscow have been discovered in a mass grave in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, offering a...
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