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Asia-Pacific leaders take aim at terror
LOS CABOS (Mexico) Oct 27: Asia-Pacific leaders hit back at international terrorists Sunday, promising to root out hidden money networks and clamp down a vast new security network around planes and... 
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Kuwait tests sirens in readiness for war
KUWAIT CITY, Oct 27: Sirens wailed across the country on Sunday and schools held evacuation drills as part of preparations for any Iraqi retaliation should Washington launch a military campaign against...
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Nerve gas used, says Israeli expert
AL QUDS, Oct 27: An Israeli expert said in remarks published here on Sunday that nerve gas may have been used during the bloody assault of a Moscow theatre that left...
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Indonesian cleric says feeling better
SOLO-JAKARTA, Oct 27: An Indonesian Muslim cleric suspected of terror links proclaimed he was feeling better on Sunday, bringing him closer to police interrogation as world leaders urged Jakarta to crank...
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‘Bugbear’ virus spreading
BONN, Oct 27: There’s a new virus on the loose — dubbed “Bugbear” — and computer users need to take action to update their virus software throughout the world. PC users...
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Giscard to unveil EU constitution
BRUSSELS, Oct 27: Former French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing will unveil the first outline of an EU constitution on Monday, taking the debate on the future of the European Union to...
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Nepalese troops kill 16 Maoist rebels
KATHMANDU, Oct 27: At least 16 Maoist rebels were killed in a series of gunbattles in Nepal, officials said on Sunday, as the government steps up efforts to crush a rebellion...
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Denmark vows to hold moot on Chechnya
COPENHAGEN, Oct 27: Defying furious Russian warnings of reprisals, Denmark vowed on Sunday to go ahead with an international conference on Chechnya only days after a bloody end to a mass...
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Libyan jets bomb rebels in CAR capital
BANGUI, Oct 27: Libyan fighter jets on Sunday attacked rebel positions in the Central African Republic during a third day of fighting between Libyan troops protecting President Ange-Felix Patasse and supporters...
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17 dead as gales lash Europe
 LONDON, Oct 27: Seventeen people were killed by falling trees and masonry as gale-force winds swept across western Europe on Sunday, causing widespread damage and chaos on transport networks....
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Pyongyang puts N-weapons on negotiating table
TOKYO-WASHINGTON: North Korea put its nuclear weapons programme on the negotiating table on Friday by demanding a non- aggression treaty with its greatest enemy, the United States, in return for an...
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Iraqis leery of US role if Saddam goes
WASHINGTON: If American forces topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq, the United States and its allies will take on responsibility for a population severely weakened by two major wars, suppression of...
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10,000-year old farming under threat
LONDON: When a woman from a plant-gathering tribe in the Middle East slipped and accidentally dropped wild seed on the ground some ten thousand years ago, she never realized that in...
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Opium crop undermines effort to curb heroin
LONDON: An attempt to curb heroin production in Afghanistan has been overwhelmed by the country’s most valuable ever opium poppy harvest, according to a UN crop survey published on Friday....
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