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Annan asks Bush to be patient over Iraq
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 14: Urging Washington to show restraint, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Wednesday that the United States seemed to have a lower threshold for going to war... 
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French police evict 100 refugees from church
PARIS, Nov 14: More than 17 hours after a final ultimatum had expired, French police quietly evacuated Saint Peter and Saint Paul Church at Calais this morning at 5am, and removed...
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Weekly’s queries on hostage rescue
MOSCOW, Nov 14: A Russian magazine has sent the state prosecutor and interior ministry 25 questions about last month’s special forces operation to end a hostage-taking by ChechenS in a Moscow...
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US condemned for targeting Muslims
NEW YORK, Nov 14: US officials responded to attacks on Muslims after last year’s Sept 11 attacks but should have been better prepared to stop a steep rise in anti-Muslim hate...
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Hindujas face charges in Bofors scandal
NEW DELHI, Nov 14: An Indian court on Thursday ordered prosecutors to press criminal charges against the Britain-based billionaire Hinduja brothers in connection with a 1.3-billion-dollar arms scandal which surfaced in...
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N-weapons material stolen, says Moscow
MOSCOW, Nov 14: Several kilograms of low-enriched uranium and a few grams of weapons-grade material have been stolen from various Russian nuclear sites over the past decade, a top Russian official...
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India, US shy away from sharing aerial combat secrets
NEW DELHI, Nov 14: Top commanders from the United States air force and its crash-ridden Indian counterpart on Thursday pledged to intensify cooperation but shied away from offering a peek into...
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Chirac took PR lessons in US: documentary
PARIS, Nov 14: A documentary broadcast this week on French private network M6 has revealed that if President Jacques Chirac managed to accede to the French presidency in 1995, it was...
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Ex-Indian army officer forms suicide squad
MUMBAI, Nov 14: A former Indian army officer said on Thursday he had set up a suicide squad of more than 40 youths who have volunteered to die in a fight...
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Italian MPs hear first papal address
 ROME, Nov 14: It was one small step for Pope John Paul and one giant leap for the papacy....
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Awami League legislators may resign: Hasina
DHAKA, Nov 14: Sheikh Hasina, the president of the Bangladesh Awami League and Leader of the Opposition in Jatiya Sangsad (parliament), has threatened the government with the resignation of her party...
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Pentagon preparing for psycho warfare: Iraq invasion
WASHINGTON: Sometime after the first of the year, residents of Baghdad could find some new programming on their FM radio dial: a soothing Arabic voice urging them to remain in their...
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Fuel embargo would be ‘fatal blow’ to N.Korea
SEOUL: North Korea, plagued by acute power and food shortages, will face a long hard winter with factory production coming to a near standstill if Washington gets its way to stop...
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French growing weary of EU’s E. Europe obsession
PARIS: If a referendum were held today, there is increasing doubt that the French and their political leaders would be ready to support the enlargement of the European Union to 25...
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Science helps water down tension in Middle East
OXFORD: Clean water is a commodity that we take for granted in most of the developed world. But for much of the population in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, water...
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Sadat’s mission is incomplete
CAIRO: Pledging to go to the end of the world in search of peace, Egypt’s late President Anwar Sadat boarded a plane to Israel on November 19, 1977 to shake hands...
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