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57 killed, 850 missing as storm hits India, BD
KOLKATA, Nov 13: At least 54 fishermen were feared drowned and another 650 people were missing on Wednesday after a severe cyclonic storm hit India’s Bay of Bengal on the eastern... 
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Israel occupies another West Bank town
NABLUS, Nov 13: Israeli forces took over this northern West Bank town on Wednesday, arresting at least 30 Palestinians in retaliation for a deadly attack on a kibbutz, as Foreign Minister...
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Pentagon seeking global system: paper
WASHINGTON, Nov 13: A Pentagon research office is designing a global computer surveillance system that would sift through personal data on government and commercial databases around the world in the hunt...
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33pc of Britons see Bush as danger: poll
LONDON, Nov 13: One-third of Britons believe that US President George Bush poses a greater threat to world peace than Saddam Hussein, according to a poll released on Thursday....
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Nato asks Ukraine, Belarus to stay away
BRUSSELS, Nov 13: The presidents of Belarus and Ukraine would not be welcomed at a NATO summit next week, although they could not be stopped from coming, officials and diplomats said...
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US begins random checks on immigrants
LOS ANGELES, Nov 13: A federal programme to randomly check cars in search for terrorists and illegal immigrants is being introduced in Midwestern, home to the largest concentration of Arabs in...
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Turkish leader to show Islam, democracy can co-exist
ANKARA, Nov 13: The man likely to be Turkey’s next prime minister said on Wednesday his party, whose pro-religion roots caused concern among allies, would show the EU and the US...
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UN calls for end to US embargo on Cuba
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 13. The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution calling on the United States to end its four decade long trade embargo against Cuba....
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Robber blinded by own mask
BERLIN, Nov 13: A German bank robber who forgot to cut open eye slits in his mask and lifted it up to demand money was convicted and sentenced to four years...
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Wave-powered bus to run in Scotland
LONDON, Nov 13: Scotland’s whisky-producing island of Islay will run the world’s first bus to be powered by wave-generated electricity at the end of November, Greenpeace said on Wednesday....
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DPs defy Paris ultimatum to vacate church
PARIS, Nov 13: The ultimatum came and went at noontime on Wednesday, and in spite of repeated threats that they would be summarily evacuated by French riot police, 100 DPs decided...
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Tycoon to head French intelligence
PARIS, Nov 13: A former head of Marks & Spencer has been named as the new operational head of France’s equivalent of the CIA, the DSGE — Direction generale de la...
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Powell regains claws to fight hawks
WASHINGTON: After three months of infighting, it appears that Secretary of State Colin Powell, who was largely marginalized by Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney after the Sept...
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Ancient African map opens a Pandora’s box
CAPE TOWN: The unveiling in South Africa’s parliament on Monday of a replica of an ancient Chinese map of the then known world which includes a recognizable outline of Africa is...
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US trying to frighten rivals into submission
CARACAS: Petroleum is not the central aim of the US plans for attacking Iraq, although war would shift control over the world’s energy markets and could undermine the power of the...
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Effects of war on Iraq could be devastating: study
LONDON: A war on Iraq could cause up to half a million deaths and have devastating consequences for years to come, according to a major new report released in London on...
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Damascus played a weak hand well
LONDON: Syria’s surprise vote for the UN Security Council resolution demanding that Iraq disarm showed that President Bashar al-Assad may have inherited some of his father’s skill at playing a weak...
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Afghan press struggling for freedom, says RSF
PARIS: In the first ever report on the Afghan press one year after the fall of the Taliban, the Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) has said that although the Afghan press is...
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