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Snow, sleet leave 1m without power in US
 PHILADELPHIA, Dec 5: An unusual early December storm left more than one million without power in the Carolinas as it pushed into the US mid-Atlantic, blanketing cities from Washington to New...
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Israel to fence off West Bank
TEL AVIV, Dec 5: Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved plans that would seal off northern Israel from the West Bank by extending a security fence to defend against Palestinian...
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Iraq brands inspectors US spies
BAGHDAD, Dec 5: Iraq on Wednesday branded UN arms experts spies and said it was mulling the idea of calling for “independent experts” to monitor the work of the inspectors....
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US senators call for testimony by Saudis
LOS ANGELES, Dec 5: Some key US Senators have come up with calls for Saudi Arabia to testify before the Congress’s judiciary committee over the issue of financing for terror networks,...
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Next G8 moot should focus on AIDS: Chirac
PARIS, Dec 5: President Jacques Chirac, who is undertaking preparations for next June’s G8 summit that is to be held at Evian in eastern France, said that the summit should focus...
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Three killed in Indonesia blasts
JAKARTA, Dec 5: Explosions ripped through a McDonald’s restaurant and a car show room in the Indonesian city of Makassar on Thursday, killing three people and wounding several, the state-run Antara...
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Chicago hospital accused of bias
WASHINGTON, Dec 5: A hospital housekeeping employee on Tuesday sued a suburban Chicago hospital charging he was fired from his job shortly after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks because he is...
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France unhappy with Afghan army training
PARIS, Dec 5: French defence authorities say that the way troops of the New Afghan Army (NAA) are being trained, it is “highly unrealistic” for Afghanistan to think it will be...
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Al Qaeda active in Gaza: Sharon
TEL AVIV, Dec 5: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon alleged on Thursday that Al Qaeda militants were operating in the Gaza Strip....
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Ne Win dies at 91
 YANGON, Dec 5: Former Myanmar military dictator Ne Win, who ruled the reclusive Southeast Asian state for more than 25 years during its slide into poverty and economic ruin, died on...
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Al Qaeda is really a lethal idea
LONDON: When the dust has settled and the blood and tears have dried, we will be able to say one thing with certainty about last week’s terrorist attack in Kenya. Anyone...
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Stakes far higher this time around: Threat of war
LONDON: I have a picture from the last Gulf war. It was taken in the basement of the Al Rashid hotel, the night the war started. The look on my face...
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Immigrants drawn to oil-rich UAE
DUBAI, Dec 5: Mohammed Moussa risked life and limb to work in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates. It took the Bangladeshi half a year to complete the journey, often on foot...
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America’s popularity ratings slip: poll
WASHINGTON: America’s global image has deteriorated sharply in the past two years, and US citizens’ views on key world issues differ markedly from public attitudes in much of the rest of...
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