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Democrats ascribe defeat to Sept 11
WASHINGTON, Nov 6: Shell-shocked Democrats on Wednesday blamed their party’s congressional election humiliation on the wave of patriotic support for President George W. Bush unleashed by last year’s Sept 11 attacks... 
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US plans for mini-nuke trigger fallout fears
PARIS, Nov 6: US plans to build a bunker-busting mini-nuclear bomb have triggered alarm among scientists, who warn the weapons could spray radioactive fallout in a wide radius around the impact...
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Car thieves throw away rare fossil
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 6: A South African scientist said on Tuesday he feared thieves who stole his van last month may have thrown away a unique 250-million-year-old fossil that was inside the...
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Netanyahu advocates Arafat’s expulsion: Hardliner back as FM
AL QUDS, Nov 6: Tough-talking former Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu was sworn in as caretaker foreign minister Wednesday as the country prepared for early elections in which he hopes to lead...
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Paris stops accepting refugees at transit camp
PARIS, Nov 6: Ten days ahead of schedule, France’s Red Cross-operated refugee camp at Sangatte will no longer accept new occupants....
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Child victim of Titanic shipwreck identified
HALIFAX (Nova Scotia) Nov 6: It has taken 90 years, the latest in DNA technology and a television documentary to do it, but the “Unknown Child” from the doomed Titanic has...
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Fire destroys Indian naval factory
KOLKATA, Nov 6: A naval shipbuilding factory in Kolkata was destroyed in a fire on Tuesday night, a West Bengal minister said on Wednesday....
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12 die in train fire
PARIS, Nov 6: Twelve passengers died on the Paris-Vienna night train as their railway car caught fire near the city of Nancy in eastern France....
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Turkish army asks US not to attack Iraq
ANKARA, Nov 6: The chief of Turkey’s powerful armed forces was quoted on Wednesday as saying the United States should avoid a war in Iraq, but that differences with Washington over...
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25 killed in road accident in Egypt
CAIRO, Nov 6: At least 24 Egyptian tourism business employees and their driver were killed on Wednesday when their bus collided with a truck on a desert road as they headed...
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Luxembourg plane crash leaves 17 dead
LUXEMBOURG, Nov 6: A Luxair passenger plane on a flight from Berlin crashed in thick fog near Luxembourg airport on Wednesday, killing at least 17 of the 22 people aboard, a...
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Bridge linking Tajikistan with Afghanistan opened
TEM (Tajikistan), Nov 6: Tajik President Emomali Rahmonov, the Aga Khan, and Afghanistan’s Vice-President Hidayat Amin Arsala on Wednesday inaugurated the first of a series of bridges across the Pyanj River...
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Memorial to Sub-continent fighters in UK
 LONDON, Nov 6: Queen Elizabeth II acknowledged on Wednesday Britain’s debt to almost five million Indian, Pakistani, African and Caribbean volunteers who served in World War I and II, unveiling the...
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Oil puts US motives under scrutiny: Iraq invasion
BALTIMORE: The Chev-ronTexaco tanker pulled into Pascagoula, Mississippi, in August laden with 485,000 barrels of Iraqi crude....
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Yemen killings signal CIA policy shift
WASHINGTON: For years, the debate raged within the CIA: Should the United States hunt down and kill its terrorist foes, or would Israeli-style “targeted killings” only invite retribution and feed an...
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France punches far above its weight
WASHINGTON: America, with its vast power, can sometimes seem like a bully on the world stage. But, really, the 1,200-pound gorilla is an underachiever in the bullying business. American diplomats have...
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Pessimism rules held Kashmir
SRINAGAR: While pundits hope a recent election here will help end 13 years of violence, Mohammed Maqbool, 60, says he knows better. Maqbool takes his cue from his work, and the...
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Baksheesh diplomacy bumps UN envoy home
UNITED NATIONS: Missing: one soft-spoken, full-bearded Mauritian ambassador with independent views. Last seen leaving a Security Council meeting without throwing his full support behind the US resolution on Iraq. May have...
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