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Pressure on Iraq from Arab states
WASHINGTON, Sept 15: Pressure grew on Baghdad on Sunday to agree to the return of UN weapons inspectors, amid predictions of military action in the New Year if President Saddam Hussein... 
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Israel seals West Bank cities for Yom Kippur: Palestinian minister meets Bush
AL QUDS, Sept 15: Israel beefed up security for the holiest Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur on Sunday, sealing off the Palestinian territories and placing the reoccupied West Bank under strict...
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Iraq ready for UN inspectors
NEW YORK, Sept 15: Iraq is ready to allow international arms inspectors back into the country, Lebanon’s foreign minister, Mahmoud Hammoud, told reporters at the United Nations on Saturday. But he...
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Five US men charged with operating terrorist cell
NEW YORK, Sept 15: Five American men of Arab origin were formally charged in a US federal court on Saturday with operating an active cell of Al Qaeda in Buffalo, New...
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West fears Al Qaeda foothold in Pakistan
NEW YORK, Sept 15: The capture of Ramzi bin Al-Shaiba reinforces fears among the Western officials here that Al Qaeda is re-establishing its operations in Karachi and other cities with the...
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US sees Al Qaeda link with Iraq
WASHINGTON, Sept 15: The United States has detected links between Iraq and the Al Qaeda terrorist network but has not established Iraqi involvement in the September 11 attacks, top officials said...
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US has priority in extradition, says Germany
BERLIN, Sept 15: The United States has priority in seeking the extradition of Ramzi bin al-Shaiba arrested in Pakistan, German Interior Minister Otto Schily said on Sunday....
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Pollen, asthma risk & pregnancy
STOCKHOLM, Sept 15: Babies are more likely to suffer from asthma if their mothers were exposed to pollen during the last three months of pregnancy, Swedish scientists said on Monday. They...
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Blair’s dossier said to link Iraq to Al Qaeda
The document of evidence against Iraq, which Prime Minister Tony Blair is publishing soon...
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Hosni Mubarak re-elected NDP chairman
CAIRO, Sept 15: President Hosni Mubarak was re-elected chairman of Egypt’s ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) on Sunday at the party’s first convention in a decade, state television reported....
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Saddam’s ouster could be bonanza for US oil firms
WASHINGTON: A United States-led ouster of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein could open a bonanza for US oil companies long banished from Iraq, scuttling oil deals between Baghdad and Russia, France and...
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Climate probe threatens the world: scientists: Russia in row with US
MOSCOW: It is claimed to be a highly sophisticated research device designed for studying the upper atmosphere. But the strange collection of tall pylons and masts now being built in the...
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Misery of fat children obsessed by junk food
LONDON: Amanda Sexton doesn’t know why her 10-year-old son Laurence started overeating, but food has been the focus of his life ever since he started school. Now 10 stone, he has...
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Ozone layer on the road to recovery: report
NAIROBI: The damaged ozone layer — the shield that protects the earth from harmful solar radiation — is showing signs of recovery, according to a new study....
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US media shifts to using language of war
LONDON: When nations go to war, the public language of politics and the media becomes a weapon of conflict. It is used to invoke a sense of solidarity, shared victimhood and...
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Cop who snared a serial killer
PARIS: In the duel between a small-town cop and France’s most dangerous serial killer, the advantage appeared heavily in favour of Francis Heaulme, the criminal known as the ‘man from nowhere’,...
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