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Khamenei threatens to use force: Student protests mount
TEHRAN, Nov 12: Student protests sparked by the sentencing to death of a reformist academic took on a wider political dimension on Tuesday, despite a warning from Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah... 
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Israeli army sweeps into Tulkarem camp
NABLUS, Nov 12: Israeli armoured vehicles on Tuesday swept into Tulkarem Palestinian refugee camp in the northern West Bank after an attack on an Israeli kibbutz claimed five lives, Palestinian sources...
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UN moots ‘Swiss’ solution for Cyprus
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 12: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Monday proposed ending the 28-year division of Cyprus by setting up a Swiss-style confederation with two equal component states within the...
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Jordan opposition offers mediation
AMMAN, Nov 12: As an armed standoff between Islamists and Jordanian security forces kept the southern town of Maan under curfew for a third straight day Tuesday, Jordanian opposition parties, including...
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Saddam’s son takes centre-stage in debate
 DUBAI, Nov 12: Uday Saddam Hussein, elder son of the West’s favourite bogeyman, returned to centre stage on Tuesday with the first serious suggestion that Iraq will finally agree to tough...
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Tel Aviv slammed for damaging historic sites
PARIS, Nov 12: Jean-Yves Marin, president of ICAHM — the Unesco-affiliated International Committee on Archeological and Historical Museums — has taken to the media to denounce what he characterizes as the...
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China’s Communist Party begins voting on new leadership
BEIJING, Nov 12: China’s landmark 16th Party Congress on Tuesday cast its first votes on what is set to be a major clear-out of the aging leaders who have ruled the...
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Putin’s jibe at Muslims draws EU reprimand
MOSCOW, Nov 12: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s advice to a Western reporter at a Russia-EU summit urging him to come to Moscow and get “circumcised” raised eyebrows at home and drew...
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DPs refuse to vacate French church
PARIS, Nov 12: One hundred illegals, most of them Iraqi Kurds, say they’re so bent on making their way to Great Britain that a spokesman has told French authorities they’re “ready...
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France takes its case to Washington
PARIS, Nov 12: French Justice Minister Dominique Perben arrives in the United States on Wednesday at the invitation of US Attorney General John Ashcroft, where he is expected to push France’s...
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Charles orders palace probe
LONDON, Nov 12: Britain’s Prince Charles has ordered an internal review, to be conducted by his private secretary, into the collapse of the trial of Princess Diana’s butler and its aftermath....
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Blair reveals terrorist warnings being received daily
LONDON: A sombre Tony Blair on Monday night revealed that British intelligence is delivering fresh warnings every day of a terrorist attack, and predicted that the threat to Britain will only...
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US influence over Europe declining
LONDON: The American and British governments spin machines have made much of the US-British teamwork which crafted the new UN resolution on Iraq. But another little-noted alliance was just as decisive...
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Romania, Bulgaria keen to join NATO
FAGARAS (Romania): In heavy rain, a Romanian infantry platoon rushes to the rescue of a British company trapped on a muddy hill, pounded by enemy artillery....
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‘Dirty bomb’ fears put Russia’s ’70s project under spotlight
TBILISI (Georgia): In the 1970s, scientists in the former Soviet Union developed scores of powerful radioactive devices and dispatched them to the countryside for a project known cryptically as Gamma Kolos,...
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Deadline set for Cyprus
ATHENS: Cyprus has been given one month to secure peace — a goal which has been missed for 28 years — after Kofi Annan of the UN presented his own proposals...
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Protesters expose oil giant’s rhetoric
LONDON: Environmental campaigners converged on Shell’s London headquarters on Tuesday morning to highlight the company’s “shocking” pollution record....
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Israelis fear war crimes arrests
AL QUDS: The Israeli government has ordered an urgent assessment of whether its politicians and soldiers could face arrest and trial for war crimes while travelling abroad....
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