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Turkey’s entry will end EU: d’Estaing: Ex-French president sparks furor
BRUSSELS, Nov 8: The elder statesman drafting a constitution for the EU sparked a furor on Friday by saying Turkey was not a European country and its entry would be “the... 
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Indian parties told not to use religion
NEW DELHI, Nov 8: India’s independent election commission issued a strong warning on Friday to politicians seeking to exploit religious divides in polls next month in Gujarat, saying they would be...
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Key dates in UN resolution
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 8: The UN security council’s resolution adopted on Friday gives Iraq one last chance to disarm and sets into motion the following timetable:...
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Aga Khan meets Karzai
KABUL, Nov 8: Enabling governance structures, focused economic development, sensitive urban revitalization, mutually supportive regional policies and a strong social service infrastructure were key topics in discussions held here over the...
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Moscow hostage-taker’s home blown up
MOSCOW, Nov 8: Masked men in military fatigues blew up the family home of one of 50 Chechens killed after they seized a Moscow theatre and held hundreds of people hostage...
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Gibraltar rejects shared sovereignty
GIBRALTAR, Nov 8: British-Spanish negotiations on the future of Gibraltar were left hanging on Friday after Gibraltarians overwhelmingly rejected a proposal for shared sovereignty in a referendum....
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Media a key player in progress: WB
PARIS, Nov 8: The customer buying a newspaper at a Paris kiosk, a Moscow shop or Ugandan newsstand probably does not dream that such a simple act affects economic development....
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Al Qaeda plans to hit Europe, says Interpol
PARIS, Nov 8: Ronald K. Noble, Interpol’s secretary-general, says that Osama bin Laden is not only alive, but is in process of preparing something “worrisome” for Europe in the not so...
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Fernandes seeks IAF account on crashes
NEW DELHI, Nov 8: Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes met senior Indian air force (IAF) commanders on Friday to discuss maintenance and upkeep of fighter aircraft after the fatal crash of...
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US troops come under attack in Afghanistan
 KABUL, Nov 8: US special forces in Afghanistan came under small-arms fire in two separate incidents, suffering no casualties but killing one assailant, the US military said in a statement on...
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Freethinkers besiege Florence
FLORENCE: Florence is under siege, not from hordes of violent anti-capitalists intent on destroying the city’s artworks, as the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, predicted earlier this week, but from legions...
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Iraq war to cost 230,000 UK jobs
NEW YORK: Going to war with Iraq could blow economic recovery off course and cost Britain up to 230,000 jobs, according to research published on Friday....
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EU’s expansion takes many by surprise
BUDAPEST: Bar an unlikely last-minute impasse over money, the European Union’s historic eastward enlargement is a done deal, politically....
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Gibraltar vote a cold shower for Spanish hopes
GIBRALTAR: Gibraltar made clear its objections to Spain having a say in its affairs with a resounding “no” to a Spanish- British plan of joint sovereignty over the British enclave....
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Pledges to fight malaria not kept
LONDON: Millions of children’s lives are being lost or blighted because pledges to take action to curb the spread of malaria have not been kept, either by heads of state in...
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Oil pipeline signals doom for Georgian economy, ecology
TBILISI: A strategic oil pipeline project under development represents a major environmental risk for one of the Caucasus’s most celebrated resorts and for a source of mineral water renowned throughout the...
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