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Mahathir calls upon Muslims to use oil as weapon
MALACCA (Malaysia), Oct 3: Oil should be used as a weapon to protect the interests of Muslims, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Thursday.... 
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US, British warplanes fire missiles on Iraqi positions
WASHINGTON, Oct 3: US-British warplanes struck in southern Iraq on Thursday after an aircraft came under fire as it dropped leaflets on Iraqi air defense positions, the US military said....
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Turkish court lifts death sentence on Ocalan
 ANKARA, Oct 3: Turkey’s state security court on Thursday formally lifted the death sentence passed on Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan after his capture and trial in 1999, the state-run Anatolian...
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Iran wants OIC moot over Al Quds
 TEHRAN, Oct 3: Iran called on the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to discuss moves by the United States toward recognition of Jerusalem (Al Quds) as the capital of Israel,...
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Russia won’t back new UN resolution against Iraq
MOSCOW, Oct 3: Russia said on Thursday it would not back a new UN resolution on Iraq that threatens Baghdad with the automatic use of force should it obstruct weapons inspections....
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Unidentified plane drops packets in India
CALCUTTA, Oct 3: An unidentified aircraft entered Indian airspace in the eastern state of West Bengal on Thursday and dropped two packets near a village, police said....
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US panel for action against 12 nations
WASHINGTON, Oct 3: A US government advisory panel has recommended that the State Department designate 12 nations “countries of particular concern” because of their alleged violations of religious freedom, a move...
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US, Kuwait forces hold wargames
KUWAIT CITY, Oct 3: US Marines are holding a “regularly scheduled” two-week-long amphibious exercise with Kuwaiti forces, a US embassy spokesman said here on Thursday....
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Five killed in Washington shootings
WASHINGTON, Oct 3: Five people were killed during a 17-hour period in a series of shootings in an affluent Washington suburb, police said on Thursday....
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RSF flays Israeli film seizure
PARIS, Oct 3: International journalists’ rights organisation Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) has condemned the confiscation of a Reuters journalist’s film by Israeli soldiers. RSF says that the seizure of the film...
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Washington-Berlin tension eases
BERLIN, Oct 3: Tensions between the United States and Germany over Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s firm anti-war stance on Iraq eased on Thursday when President George W. Bush congratulated Germany on the...
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US hawks, doves split over next UN move
WASHINGTON: United States’ hardline blueprint for coercive weapons inspections in Iraq appears destined to be rejected by Iraq, Russia and France. What is less clear is whether it represents Washington’s final...
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Mass grave recalls horror of Stalin era
RZHEVSKY ARTILLERY RANGE (Russia): The artillery range had been a source of rich pickings for children like David Pelganen, hunting for mushrooms and berries....
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Let inspectors get back to work
LONDON: It is time to go back to basics on Iraq. The United States and Britain claim that President Saddam Hussein’s efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction since UN inspections...
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Berlin Wall as cash bonanza
BERLIN: For two decades, Volker Pawlowski was a construction worker in West Berlin, the last outpost of capitalism inside the grey Communist world....
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Soviets kept seed bank going in starvation
LENINGRAD: Here’s testimony to the value of seed banks: even under the direst of circumstances — starvation during war — the staff at Russia’s pioneering seed bank in Leningrad refused to...
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Cholera kills 17 in Nigeria
KANO (Nigeria), Oct 3: A cholera outbreak in northern Nigeria has killed 17 people and infected more than 100, forcing hospitals to shut their doors, a local official said on Thursday.—AFP...
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New immigration restrictions to hurt Pakistanis
WASHINGTON: Human rights advocates launched a campaign on Wednesday to urge visitors and foreign workers in the United States to keep authorities informed of their addresses....
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