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Total eclipse to sweep Africa, Australia on 4th
PARIS, Dec 1: In an age that scoffs at superstition, there will occur on Wednesday (Dec 4) a sight guaranteed to tingle the spine of the most hardened skeptic: a total... 
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Nightclub blaze in Venezuelan capital kills 47
CARACAS, Dec 1: A fire ripped through a packed basement nightclub in downtown Caracas on Sunday, killing 47 people, most of them suffocated by smoke in what was one of the...
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UN under cloud over tip-off on inspection
BAGHDAD, Dec 1: Serious doubts crept up over the surprise nature of new arms inspections in Iraq when a UN spokesman admitted the head of a suspected weapons site had been...
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World AIDS Day spurs global calls to action
 PARIS, Dec 1: The world’s most powerful leaders and most vulnerable rag-swaddled children were united for World AIDS Day on Sunday in their calls for action to stem the spread of...
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US citizens told not to visit Yemen, E. Africa
WASHINGTON, Dec 1: The US State Department issued a travel warning on Saturday, saying that the potential for Kenya-like terrorist attacks directed against Americans throughout East Africa is high....
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Israelis demolish building: 2 killed
BEIT LAHIYA (Gaza Strip), Dec 1: Israeli troops raided a Palestinian-ruled town in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, killing two people and destroying a three-storey apartment building in an operation to...
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20 have died of AIDS, says BD
DHAKA, Dec 1: A total of 20 people have died of AIDS in Bangladesh so far, government officials said on the occasion of the World AIDS Day on Sunday....
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Thousands flock to Washington mosque
WASHINGTON, Dec 1: A large gathering inside the city’s main Islamic centre prayed quietly on Jumatul Wida, focusing on religious rituals. But outside, a much smaller gathering listened to fiery speeches...
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Major oil slick threatens Spanish coast
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (Spain), Dec 1: Up to 200,000 angry Spaniards demonstrated in the capital of Galicia on Sunday for better protection of their coasts as 9,000 tons of heavy fuel...
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Europe’s chance to score a trifecta
WASHINGTON: Three complex and closely related issues are moving rapidly toward dramatic showdowns at the Dec 12 European Union summit in Copenhagen. The American stake in them is immense; their outcome...
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Sweden sets date for Euro referendum
BRUSSELS: Sweden, one of the three EU members which have so far opted to stay out of the euro, on Friday named a date for a referendum on the single currency....
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Post-Saddam Iraq mapped
LONDON: Tony Blair is to send the former Chief of the UK’s Defence Staff, Lord Guthrie, to Turkey as his unofficial military envoy to shore up support for an invasion of...
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Poor want cheap drugs, rich have other concerns
WASHINGTON: Terrorism is not the only major concern in today’s world, at least not for the poor. They also have other concerns, such as access to cheap medicines to fight epidemics...
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Afrikaners threaten Christmas violence
LONDON-JOHANNESBURG: For the Afrikaans culture that once saw itself as South Africa’s only future, the choice of Stellenbosch to host the congress of the African National Congress can appear as a...
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