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Riyadh calls for peaceful solution
RIYADH, Jan 13: Saudi Arabia warned on Monday that waging war against Iraq would be a loss to all parties and called for allowing Arab countries to resolve the crisis peacefully.... 
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US holds out carrot to North Korea
SEOUL, Jan 13: A top US envoy kicked off a week of intense diplomacy on Monday with a call for North Korea to scrap its nuclear weapons drive as Pyongyang repeated...
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Saudi charities fail to get French visa
PARIS, Jan 13: Haitham Manna, spokesman of the Paris-based Arab Committee for Human Rights, has condemned France for “acting under US pressure” in its decision to refuse visas to representatives of...
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More time needed, says IAEA chief
PARIS, Jan 13: UN arms inspectors need “a few months” to determine whether Iraq is harbouring a secret weapons programme, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Mohamed ElBaradei said here...
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Cold wave savages South Asia: toll soars to 1,200
NEW DELHI, Jan 13: Wide swathes of tropical Bangladesh, Nepal and India remained gripped by a savage cold wave on Monday that has killed nearly 1,200 since Christmas and left millions...
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Lieberman to run for US presidency
STAMFORD (USA), Jan 13: Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman declared on Monday he would run for the US presidency, seeking to be the first major party Jewish presidential nominee in U.S. history....
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Algerian sues Paris for lost job
PARIS, Jan 13: A 28-year old Franco-Algerian Muslim says he izs suing the French government for discrimination, also to find out why suddenly he was deprived of his access badge to...
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Three moons discovered around Neptune
MONTREAL, Jan 13: Canadian and US astronomers have discovered three more moons orbiting Neptune, which previously had eight known satellites, the National Research Council Canada said on Monday....
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US to be ready to attack Iraq in Feb: officials
WASHINGTON, Jan 13: The US military should be in position by mid-February to carry out any order to invade Iraq, defence officials said on Monday, as a massive new deployment of...
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Saudi Arabia denies asking Saddam to quit
RIYADH, Jan 13: Saudi Arabia has once again rejected reports that it is urging Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to step down and spare the region a US-led invasion....
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India’s superiority stands neutralized: Realization about conventional forces
NEW DELHI: Nearly five years after India and Pakistan became nuclear powers, New Delhi is finally coming to terms with what that status means — the threat of a Pakistani first...
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Chirac, Schroeder revive special relationship
BERLIN: The German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and France’s president Jacques Chirac will on Tuesday consider a revolutionary proposal under which French and German ministers would be encouraged to take part in...
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Egypt closer to reclaiming its western desert
CAIRO: When an Egyptian tobacco company decided to name a new brand Toshka, cries went up in the pro-government press for the company to pull the cigarettes from the market and...
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Arthritis drug helps in heart disease, study finds
WASHINGTON: Anti-inflammatory drugs used to treat arthritis may also reduce the risk of heart disease by keeping the arteries limber, Swiss researchers said on Monday....
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Living under a cloud of fear
NEW YORK: Arshad Ali thought he left his fears behind when he came to America. He was right. He experienced love, hunger and pain, sometimes all three at the same time,...
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The past is never dead in US South
CHICAGO: The past is never dead, wrote William Faulkner, the South’s novelist laureate and a famous son of Mississippi. “It’s not even past.” And so it was that about 10,000 Chicagoans...
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