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Jakarta frames tough anti-terror laws: Radical leader arrested
JAKARTA, Oct 19: Indonesian authorities on Saturday arrested a religious leader accused of leading a terror group, hours after assuming sweeping new anti-terrorist powers in the wake of the Bali blast.... 
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Khaleda Zia calls in army to fight crime
DHAKA, Oct 19: Four people have been killed and more than 1,800 arrested since early Thursday morning when the army launched an operation to improve law and order in the country,...
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Nationalists score big gains in Bosnia
SARAJEVO, Oct 19: Nationalists scored a clean sweep of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency in elections two weeks ago, according to final results released on Saturday, despite international pressure for a vote for...
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Paris takes liking to phone diplomacy
PARIS, Oct 19: France has decided to make greater use of telephone diplomacy, French foreign ministry spokesman said at a recent press briefing here....
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60 years on, veterans leave hatchet buried at El Alamein
EL ALAMEIN (Egypt), Oct 19: Old veterans from Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and Italy paid homage in the Egyptian desert on Saturday to the tens of thousands who died 60...
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UN to pull out staff from Ivory Coast
GENEVA, Oct 19: The United Nations has decided to evacuate all its non-essential personnel and their families from Ivory Coast’s main commercial city Abidjan as a “precautionary measure,” a spokeswoman for...
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France, Libya revive commission
PARIS, Oct 19: France and Libya have decided to revive their joint commission after a lapse of 20 years and will hold the first meeting on Monday....
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Water-filled mattresses for children
SINGAPORE, Oct 19: An accidental discovery that a water-filled mattress can quickly drive down fever in a sick child has changed the way young patients are treated at a Singapore hospital,...
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Ten greatest Britons
LONDON, Oct 19: Winston Churchill, Princess Diana and John Lennon made it — but Tony Blair, Queen Elizabeth II, and Paul McCartney failed to register in the list of top 10...
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Thailand may use rice to buy Russian arms
BANGKOK, Oct 19: Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Saturday said Thailand was making efforts to diversify sources of its military hardware and that he was eyeing Russian goods....
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4 killed in BD ’copter crash
DHAKA, Oct 19: A Bangladesh air force helicopter on a training flight crashed on Saturday in southeastern Bangladesh, killing all four people on board, defence ministry officials said here....
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France playing key role over Iraq
PARIS has found itself the unexpected focus of opposition to US plans for a possible war on Iraq by becoming the final hurdle in the Bush administration’s search for a tough...
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Global anger over media control: Monopoly on information
NEW YORK: Shallow “drive-by” journalism, suppression of news stories, a lack of diversity — is all business as usual for the media giants, say organisers of Media Democracy Day (MDD)....
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US, UK ready to attack without UN mandate
WASHINGTON: Britain and the US on Friday signalled their readiness to attack Iraq without a UN mandate if the security council fails to agree on a common course of action....
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Balinese pray for peace & return of tourists
BALI: Everyday after evening prayers, a large crowd moves down from the nearby Kampung Jawa mosque to Madam Hayati Ekalaksmi’s two-storey terrace house about 100-m away....
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Bahrainis press govt to oust US navy
MANAMA: Chanting “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!” protesters here on Friday night angrily called for Bahrain’s government to oust the US Navy from the base that serves as its...
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