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Two Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza Strip
TEL AVIV, Sept 5: On the eve of the Jewish New Year, two Israeli soldiers and one Palestinian were killed in the Gaza Strip.... 
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Iraq is an excuse for hegemony: Mowlam
LONDON, Sept 5: A leading ex-member of the Tony Blair cabinet, Mo Mowlam on Thursday accused President George Bush of planning to attack Iraq “only to control the region and its...
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Lifting of ban on LTTE welcomed
COLOMBO, Sept 5: Sri Lanka’s Tamil National Alliance _ a coalition of Tamil political parties _ on Thursday applauded the government for lifting the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil...
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Smart card patents, CIA & French authorities
PARIS, Sept 5: Invented back in 1974 by a French citizen, the smart card — the chip-bearing plastic card that has made its way around the world and which is at...
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US received one million aliens: INS
LOS ANGELES, Sept 5: The US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) said on Wednesday that more than one million people immigrated to the United States last year....
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Rumsfeld ordered strikes on Iraq after 11/9: TV
WASHINGTON, Sept 5: Hours after a hijacked airliner struck the Pentagon last Sept 11, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began telling his aides to come up with plans for striking Iraq,...
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Players named in racist attack go scot-free
LONDON, Sept 5: The family of Najeib Sarfaraz, a student of Pakistani origin, has criticized the decision by the football authorities to lift the ban on two English players — Lee...
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Barghuti disputes court validity
 TEL AVIV, Sept 5: Marwan Barghuti, the top Palestinian to be tried by Israel since the beginning of the intifada, appeared in an uproarious court session on Thursday on charges of...
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Japan’s support to US paints EU into a corner: Earth Summit
JOHANNESBURG: International diplomacy is arcane, but the negotiations for a world deal on renewable energy, which countries finally agreed on Monday, resembled a nine-month chess game....
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Putin is a male chauvinist, says wife
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin may openly profess his pride in his KGB past, but his wife Lyudmila recently disclosed a less-publicized aspect of his personality. According to the First Lady,...
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France casts doubts on ‘terror war’
PARIS: On the day after the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York, the French establishment newspaper, Le Monde, rallied France to the fight against international terrorism with the call “We...
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Russian-EU ties strained over Baltic enclave
MOSCOW: Relations between Russia and the EU risk falling back to cold war levels after Moscow warned on Wednesday that a dispute over Kaliningrad — a Russian enclave sandwiched between Poland...
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Giuliani becomes consultant
NEW YORK: For his courage and determination, he emerged last year as “America’s mayor.” Now, former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani has become a high-priced consultant, biding time ahead of a...
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Crisis in Horn of Africa as rains fail
NAIROBI: A group of farmers in western Ethiopia destroy the homesteads of a clan reputed to have the power to bring rain, angry at the clan’s failure to end a drought...
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