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Bosnian Serb jailed for killing Muslims
AMSTERDAM, Nov 29: A Bosnian Serb was jailed for 20 years by the Hague war crimes tribunal on Friday for the cold-blooded 1992 murder of five Muslims who had begged for... 
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Extremists a big threat in Afghanistan, says Franks
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Nov 29: Extremists still pose a major threat in almost one third of Afghanistan but the war against them continues despite an imminent focus shift to reconstruction, top...
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West exploiting tension in Iran, says Rafsanjani
 TEHRAN, Nov 29: Hundreds of thousands of Islamic supporters of Iran’s conservative regime filled the streets of Tehran on Friday, as senior officials accused Israel and its allies of trying to...
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Three Islamic charities banned in Bosnia
SARAJEVO, Nov 29: Bosnian authorities have acted on a request by the United States and banned three Islamic charities suspected of channelling funds for “terrorism”, a government official said on Friday....
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Kurds seek more support from France
PARIS, Nov 29: Leaders of Iraq’s two mail Kurd parties, the PDK and UPK, who are here for talks with French authorities, have said that they’ve come with the intention of...
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Missile launcher is Russian, says expert
NAIROBI, Nov 29: A rocket launcher found near Mombasa airport after missiles were fired at an Israeli plane is a Russian-built Strela model, a military specialist said on Friday after studying...
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UN to use ’copters in Iraq arms inspections
BAGHDAD, Nov 29: The United Nations will be shipping helicopters to Iraq in the coming days to extend the range of weapons inspections, which have so far been confined to the...
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Science’s last frontier lies just beneath our feet
LONDON: Scientists have launched a systematic study of the last great unexplored territory of the globe: the few inches of soil beneath our feet....
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Another Yugoslav in the making: Environmental disaster in Iraq
PANCEVO (Yugoslavia): As the United States prepares for possible war in Iraq, environmentalists have raised new concerns about the consequences of precision bombing designed to cripple military-industrial infrastructure....
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Diamonds fuelled African wars
HARARE: Africa’s vast mineral wealth, especially diamonds and oil, have fuelled the continent’s most protracted wars in Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Sudan....
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Osama’s Nov 12 voice tape fictitious: expert
PARIS: On the basis of scientific tests, a French TV channel has established that the voice on a Nov 12 audiotape broadcast by Al-Jazeera is not that of Osama bin Laden,...
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Kenyan blast may suck Israel into ‘war’
LONDON: Israel was sucked into the US-led “war on terrorism” for the first time on Thursday after a suicide bombing at a hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, left 15 dead and a...
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