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| December 27, 2002 | Friday | Shawwal 22, 1423 |
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India not to send US citizens to ICC: Agreement signed
NEW DELHI, Dec 26: India and the United States signed a pact Thursday under which they agreed not to send each other’s nationals to a world tribunal, in a victory for... 
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CIA interrogations verge on inhumane: paper
WASHINGTON, Dec 26: CIA interrogators have been using “stress and duress” techniques on captured enemies in Afghanistan that blur the line between legal and inhumane, the Washington Post reported on Thursday....
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US, UK planes attack Iraqi base
 WASHINGTON, Dec 26: US and British aircraft on Thursday attacked a military communications facility in southern Iraq to retaliate for the downing of an unmanned US spy plane earlier this week....
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LTTE accuses army of sabotaging pact
COLOMBO, Dec 26: The Tamil Tigers on Thursday accused Sri Lanka’s army of trying to sabotage peace talks by demanding the rebels disarm as part of a two-way de-escalation deal....
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Rebels kill seven in India
BAIRICHAK (India), Dec 26: Left-wing rebels gunned down seven relatives of a police officer’s family on Wednesday night in an eastern Indian village in a revenge attack....
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Robbery, blasts at church in Kolkata
KOLKATA, Dec 26: Seventeen people were injured on Wednesday in separate bombing incidents in two major cities of eastern India, police said....
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Deported family to sue UK govt
BIRMINGHAM, Dec 26: A family of Afghan asylum seekers deported to Germany are considering an appeal against a ‘barbaric’ ruling which has barred their return to Britain....
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US civil rights activists to picket INS
NEW YORK, Dec 26: Dozens of political activists, labour and religious leaders representing a cross section of society on Tuesday protested Bush administration’s policy requiring mandatory registration of Muslim immigrants and...
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Chaplin’s Swiss mansion to become museum
CORSIER (Switzerland): The Swiss mansion that was Charlie Chaplin’s home for his last 25 years will soon become a museum preserving memories of Chaplin the artist, the man and the humanist,...
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Aid agencies fear catastrophe in Iraq
LONDON: Relief agencies fear that Iraq’s teetering infrastructure, in tatters after years of international sanctions and two decades of conflict, would suffer a fresh body blow from a US-led attack....
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US favours moves to contain Nepal’s Maoist rebels
KATHMANDU: International backing for a ‘war for peace’ strategy to contain Nepal’s Maoist rebels reached a new threshold, as Washington officials began this week the process of putting them on the...
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Kurdish language struggles to get a voice
ISTANBUL: After long decades of silence, Kurdish language radio and television shows have been allowed to air in Turkey but are still struggling to find a voice....
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