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November 18, 2002 Monday Ramazan 12, 1423 Police stop VHP from holding rally in Gujarat AHMEDABAD, Nov 17: Police on Sunday broke up a rally by Hindu radicals in India’s riot-torn western state of Gujarat after a top hardliner defied a ban on demonstrations before elections.... Sharon threatens to expand Israeli rule: Settlers put up outpost in Al Khalil AL KHALIL, Nov 17: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Sunday that Israel must enlarge the zone it administers in the divided West Bank city of Al Khalil following an... Dead heart muscle regenerated: experts CHICAGO, Nov 17: Researchers on Sunday reported progress on ways to repair a damaged heart following an attack — one using skeletal muscle cells and the other bone marrow cells _... Tension on BD, India border DHAKA, Nov 17: Tension gripped Bangladesh’s 238-km border with India at Satkhira, a southern district some 500kms from Dhaka, following a heavy exchange of fire between the border guards of the... Ex-Israeli FM Abba Eban dies TEL AVIV, Nov 17: Abba Eban, a former Israeli foreign minister and one of its best known diplomats, died on Sunday at the age of 87 in a hospital near Tel... France to ban recruitment of mercenaries PARIS, Nov 17: The French government says that it is presently in the process of preparing a law that would forbid the recruiting and training of mercenaries on French soil, and... 3 charged over London tube terror conspiracy LONDON, Nov 17: Three North African Muslim men have been arrested and charged over an alleged plot to release cyanide gas in London’s Underground rail system, British police sources said ON... Khamenei tells judiciary to revise verdict; police attack students TEHRAN, Nov 17: Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday ordered the hardline judiciary to back down over its sentencing to death of a reformist academic, but agitating students were also told that... Bush following Shakespearean vendetta: Grass NEW DELHI, Nov 17: US President George W. Bush’s threats of war against Iraq are part of a family vendetta straight out of Shakespeare, Nobel prize-winning German novelist Guenter Grass said... Italy’s former PM gets 24 years jail ROME, Nov 17: Seven-time Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti was sentenced on Sunday to 24 years in prison by a court in Perugia, central Italy for complicity in the 1979 murder... Al Qaeda issues new warning LONDON, Nov 17: The Al Qaeda network has issued a new manifesto setting out the strategy of the organization and making a series of chilling threats, a British paper said on... Refugees disappear from Calais PARIS, Nov 17: Three days after the much-publicized evacuation of 100 homeless foreigners from Saints Peter and Paul Church, Calais Mayor Jacky Henin says he’s extremely surprised to see that the... Philosophy Day on 21st PARIS, Nov 17: Unesco has decided to proclaim November 21 as International Philosophy Day and will be holding an international colloquium here on the subject.... Saddam succeeds in buying time? LONDON: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein may have bought time by acceding to intrusive arms inspections, but a US-led invasion to remove him remains probable.... Bioluminescence and detecting life on Mars LONDON: Birds do it, bees do it and even educated fleas are proficient at it. However, the way glow worms get to it may hold the key to better drug development... Nato strike force on call all around LONDON: A new Nato rapid response force would strike suspected terrorist bases anywhere in the world with or without the permission of the host nation, senior British sources said.... Cloned cow embryos to go on sale LONDON: Genesis has her head stuck in a bale of hay on Greg Wiles’s farm. She has the same large glossy body as her mother, Zita, once the reigning queen of... Hapless Arabs confront US charges BEIRUT: A Lebanese well known political commentator, Issam Naaman, has said that had Osama bin Laden not been an Arab and Muslim, would the September 11 incident have assumed such global...

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