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Israelis again surround Arafat’s compound
RAMALLAH, Sept 19: Ten Israeli tanks, troop carriers and jeeps entered Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s compound on Thursday, sparking exchanges of fire which left two Palestinians injured, hours after a suicide... 
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Bush-Hitler analogy sours US-German ties
BERLIN, Sept 19: Relations between Germany and the United States, frayed over a likely war on Iraq, took a turn for the worse on Thursday when German Justice Minister Herta Daeubler-Gmelin...
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Osama targeted top men: official
WASHINGTON, Sept 19: Osama bin Laden targeted the heads of the US Defense Department, State Department, CIA and FBI, and offered a nine million dollars bounty for the assassination of four...
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US waging war on Islam: UK scholar
LONDON, Sept 19: With a special House of Commons debate on Iraq just days away, a respected British Muslim leader warned on Thursday that the US-led “war on terrorism” looked too...
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Sonia visits Srinagar amid ultra-tight security
SRINAGAR, Sept 19: Indian opposition leader Sonia Gandhi railed against both Pakistan and the ruling Hindu nationalists at an election rally here on Thursday....
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US team in Kabul to see Karzai security
 WASHINGTON, Sept 19: The US State Department on Wednesday said diplomatic security officers were in Kabul to size up the task of protecting Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who survived an assassination...
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Democrats reluctant to give Bush carte blanche
WASHINGTON, Sept 19: US Senate Majority Leader Democrat Tom Daschle said Thursday he would be reluctant to give President George Bush carte blanche to go to war with Iraq to remove...
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14bn-year-old light flicker
CHICAGO, Sept 19: Astronomers using a radio telescope at the South Pole reported on Thursday they had recorded a flicker of light from nearly 14 billion years ago that verifies most...
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Plot against Malaysian govt unearthed
SINGAPORE, Sept 19: Suspected terrorists arrested in Singapore were planning to cripple military and other crucial targets as part of a plan to overthrow the Malaysian government and create an Islamic...
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Ex-mly ruler killed in Ivory Coast uprising
ABIDJAN, Sept 19: Ivory Coast’s former military ruler Robert Guei and a top government minister were killed Thursday amid a bloody armed uprising officially termed a coup attempt....
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Lankan govt moves to curb powers of Chandrika
COLOMBO, Sept 19: Sri Lanka’s government proposed a constitutional amendment to parliament on Thursday, seeking a curb on presidential powers that it says is crucial to a push for peace with...
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Afghanistan will suffer: Brahimi: US attack on Iraq
UNITED NATIONS: The chief United Nations official in Afghanistan said on Wednesday he felt apprehensions about the talk of US military action in Iraq, and said it could affect international efforts...
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US is bullying the whole world, says Mandela
JOHANNESBURG: On hearing that the United States had brushed aside Iraq’s decision to allow weapons inspectors back in, former South African president Nelson Mandela this week lambasted President George W. Bush’s...
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Asia, Europe trying to narrow cultural divide
SINGAPORE: Asian leaders aim at narrowing a cultural divide and seek greater market access for their products at a summit with their European Union (EU) counterparts in Denmark next week....
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Scientists zone in on out-of-body experience
LONDON: Swiss scientists think they have pinpointed the area of the brain where out-of-body experiences are triggered....
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Mummy’s the word after Great Pyramid TV hype
HAMBURG: Forget the “secret chamber” discovered inside the Great Pyramid on live TV - archaeologists from the Great Pyramid is a far more significant find than any “mystery chambers” in the...
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Garbage rule change hits NY scavengers
NEW YORK: A change in New York’s garbage recycling rules has had unintended consequences for the thousands who depend on the city’s refuse to scrape a living —the homeless and the...
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Name game a headache for Chirac party
PARIS: Will it, or won’t it be “The Blue House”? France’s ruling party, the UMP, which engineered Jacques Chirac’s landslide victory in last May’s presidential election is having problems coming up...
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