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Putin rejects calls for pullout from Chechnya
MOSCOW, Nov 10: Russian President Vladimir Putin called on Sunday for faster political moves to bring peace to Chechnya, but angrily rejected call for a pullout from the Caucasus republic.... 
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Yemen-style strikes in Muslim states planned: Bush nod obtained: Rice
WASHINGTON, Nov 10: US President George Bush has given broad authority to “a variety of people” in his administration to launch attacks like the missile strike that killed six suspected Al...
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Palestinians seek ‘binding timeline’
RAMALLAH, Nov 10: The Palestinian leadership called on Sunday for a “binding timeline” on an international peace plan to set up a state, as two Palestinian would-be suicide bombers blew themselves...
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French launch Arabic website
PARIS, Nov 10: The French Foreign Ministry has announced creation of a special Arab-language website, that can be accessed at: http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/arabe/index.html....
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Afghan heroin crop multiplying, says US
WASHINGTON, Nov 10: Poppy cultivation increased nearly 19-fold between 2001 and 2002 in Afghanistan, the world’s leading exporter of heroin, says a new US government study of poppy cultivation in the...
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Academic sentenced to death may be freed: speaker
TEHRAN, Nov 10: Tensions were simmering in Iran on Sunday over a death sentence for a popular liberal academic, with a leading reformist lawmaker saying he would soon be freed and...
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Iraq likely to accept resolution: Saudi FM
RIYADH, Nov 10: Saudi Foreign Minister Saud Al-Faisal has indicated that Baghdad has agreed to accept the new UN resolution after obtaining assurances from the UN Security Council member Syria, that...
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Saudis moot more powers for Shura
RIYADH, Nov 10: Saudi Arabia’s Shura council has held a rare debate with the country’s rulers about how to “activate” the advisory body and expand its powers....
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Newton book stolen from Russian library
ST PETERSBURG, Nov 10: Thieves have stolen Newton’s “apple” from a Russian museum — the celebrated book in which the 17th century English physicist formulated his eponymous law on gravity which...
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Grameen Bank founder to head UN body
DHAKA, Nov 10: Professor Dr Mohammad Yunus, founder of the Dhaka-based Grameen Bank, has recently been appointed Ambassador for the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)....
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Moon fakers: lunar missions fight ‘hoax’ claim
PARIS: Thirty years after Man last walked on the Moon, the lunar landings are struggling to shake off rumours that they were nothing but a monstrous hoax....
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Dollars yielded unanimous vote: Resolution against Iraq
UNITED NATIONS: Friday’s unanimous vote in the UN Security Council supporting the US resolution on weapons inspections in Iraq was a demonstration of Washington’s ability to wield its vast political and...
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Mugabe uses famine as a weapon
LONDON: The rains have come to the undulating pastures of northern Matabeleland. In the bread basket of Zimbabwe, the seed should be in the ground by now. But instead the rural...
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Jews accused of ‘cleansing’ Colombian coke cartel cash
NEW YORK: British and American drug-busting authorities claim to have smashed one of the most bizarre money-laundering services ever operated for Colombian cocaine cartels: a circle of ultra-religious Hassidic Jews in...
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Bush war plans assume fall of Saddam before invasion
WASHINGTON: The Bush Administration has settled on a plan for a possible invasion of Iraq that envisions seizing most of the country quickly and encircling Baghdad, but assumes that Saddam Hussein...
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Olive becomes a discord in ME
AQRABA (West Bank): The first rain needed to wash the summer dust off the green leaves had not yet fallen. The fruit was still green, not the ripe colour of bluish-black....
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