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Bush agrees to set up commission: Kissinger to lead Sept 11 probe
WASHINGTON, Nov 27: Despite initial objections, US President George Bush on Wednesday approved creation of a commission to investigate the government’s failure to prevent last year’s Sept 11 attacks and appointed... 
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LTTE hints at dropping independence demand
COLOMBO, Nov 27: The leader of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebel group said on Wednesday that he was prepared to accept regional autonomy for his people, dropping a decades-old demand for...
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Germany rejects US pleas for help on Iraq
BERLIN, Nov 27: Germany put new pressure on its strained relations with the United States on Wednesday by refusing some US requests for support in any Iraq war....
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Deranged man tries to hijack Italian plane
LYON (France), Nov 27: A mentally disturbed former policeman made a failed bid to hijack an Alitalia flight from the Italian city of Bologna to Paris on Monday, officials and the...
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Justice dept move angers US Muslims
WASHINGTON, Nov 27: Muslims living in the United States are pleading with Washington not to block immigration from Islamic countries as it would only aid those wanting to widen the gulf...
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Saudi Arabia is a friend: Powell
WASHINGTON, Nov 27: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia was a “friend” of the United States and a “strategic partner” in the “war on terrorism”....
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Threats forced Iraq to let in UN: Rumsfeld
WASHINGTON, Nov 27: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday that it was the threat of a possible US military action that forced Iraq to allow UN inspection of its...
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Full face transplants no longer a fiction: expert
LONDON, Nov 27: Full face transplants are no longer science fiction fantasy, a leading surgeon said on Wednesday. They are technically feasible but ethically complex....
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India moves to end insurgency in NE
NEW DELHI: After 37 years in exile, two insurgent rebel leaders will be allowed to return for talks to end almost 40 years of bloodshed in India’s northeast....
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Legitimacy eludes Tamil Tigers
BANGKOK: If the Sri Lankan peace talks in Thailand had convinced the Tamil Tiger rebels that they were on the way to achieving their Holy Grail — international legitimacy — then...
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Quake unearths information treasure
ANCHORAGE: While it did little serious damage, the magnitude-7.9 earthquake that rattled interior Alaska earlier this month revealed a bounty of scientific information for seismologists and geologists....
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Chaplin to be subject of a new museum
PARIS: Film actor Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) is to be at the center of a new museum that is to open near Geneva in 2005, not far away from Vevey where he...
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ANC in flux after Mbeki cracks down on rebels
JOHANNESBURG: South Africa president, Thabo Mbeki, has purged rebellious members of the African National Congress who were accused of plotting a leftwing challenge to his leadership and turning Eastern Cape into...
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Scientists sceptical of Italian expert’s cloning claims
ROME: The international scientific community expressed skepticism and irritation on Wednesday over claims by a controversial Italian fertility expert that the first cloned human will be born in January....
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