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Thousands of Jordanian troops control town: Tribals hold dual nationality; over 100 held; at least four dead; house-to-house searches
AMMAN, Nov 11: Thousands of Jordanian troops kept the southern town of Maan under curfew for a second day on Monday after at least four people died in gunbattles with security... 
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AL chief to ask for Arabs in UN inspection teams
CAIRO, Nov 11: Arab League chief Amr Mussa said he would ask UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Monday to include Arab nationals on arms inspection teams being sent to Iraq...
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Officials wring hands over Chiraq’s remarks
BRUSSELS, Nov 11: Former French president Valery Giscard d’Estaing’s controversial comments last week warning that Turkish membership of the European Union would mean “the end of the EU” have triggered another...
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US storms leave 35 dead, town flattened
WASHINGTON, Nov 11: Multiple tornadoes and rains lashed the southeastern United States on Monday leaving 35 dead, hundreds missing and entire communities and towns flattened....
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Japan to join US in missile defence
NEW YORK, Nov 11: Alarm over North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapon programmes is pushing Japan toward joining the United States in trying to develop a missile defence programme, said the...
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US tests cruise missile that switches targets
WASHINGTON, Nov 11: A prototype Navy cruise missile that has the capability of being directed to a different target while in flight was successfully launched underwater for the first time Sunday....
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France wishes to attract more foreign students
PARIS, Nov 11: French universities, who managed years ago to attract students who later became leading personalities of the political world — for example, Leopold Sedar Senghor, former president of Senegal,...
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Turkey transforms itself to join EU
LONDON: Consider this amazement. A nation of 68 million goes to the polls. Not a single MP from the previous coalition survives. The party of the departing prime minister, which received...
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Anti-West backlash awaits oil firms
DUBAI: They controlled Iraqi oil flows until Baghdad showed them the door 30 years ago. Now the Western multinationals are longing for a second shot at Iraq’s vast untapped oilfields when...
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Opting for cremation
PATNA: Christians in densely populated parts of India are increasingly turning to the age-old Hindu tradition of cremation as their cemeteries get ever more crowded....
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Why Queen Victoria’s art reflects her true feelings about India
LONDON: An entry in the diary of Britain’s Queen Victoria, written when India was still technically controlled by the East India Company, declares: “There is a universal feeling that India should...
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Nato tries hard to put up a new face
BRUSSELS: Erected in a hurry over Brussels’ old airport runways at the height of the Cold War, the sprawling, low-rise complex of pre-fabricated buildings that serve as NATO’s headquarters is now...
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