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Inspectors be given more time: Annan: Bush ‘sick & tired’
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 14: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday weapons inspectors should be given more time and expressed optimism about the chances of disarming Iraq without going to... 
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Chandrika warns PM of dismissal
COLOMBO, Jan 14: Sri Lanka’s cohabitation crisis worsened on Tuesday with President Chandrika Kumaratunga issuing a thinly veiled threat to sack her Prime Minister over the handling of the Norwegian-backed peace...
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Bush offers to revive ‘bold initiative’: Move to secure N. Korea’s pledge
 WASHINGTON, Jan 14: U.S. President George Bush dangled an olive branch in front of North Korea on Tuesday, offering to revive a long-stalled “bold initiative” to help Pyongyang if it abandoned...
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Man will disappear ... in 500 million years: scientists
WASHINGTON, Jan 14: Two US scientists have warned in a book released Tuesday that the end of the world has started ... but it will take 500 million years to life...
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US neglect of human rights eroding support for ‘terror war’: HRW
NEW YORK, Jan 14: Global support for the “war on terrorism” is diminishing partly because the United States too often neglects human rights in its conduct of the war, Human Rights...
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UK holds ME moot despite Israeli ban
LONDON, Jan 14: Talks on reforming the Palestinian Authority ended on Tuesday with British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw announcing a task-force meeting of the “quartet” on Middle East peace for next...
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RSF calls for Iranian newsmen’s release
PARIS, Jan 14: French journalists’ rights organization Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) on Tuesday called for the immediate release of two journalists who were arrested and jailed for having published a 66-year-old...
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Germany seeks another resolution
BERLIN, Jan 14: Allying himself firmly with France, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder called ON Tuesday for the first time for a second UN resolution before any military action is launched against...
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Mosque vandalized
PARIS, Jan 14: Mysterious persons have rummaged through the mosque at Nimes, leaving local religious and police officials wondering as to what they were after....
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What is it about Iraq that Blair is not revealing?
LONDON: Perhaps it is all mere bravado. After all, a man who is prepared to wear a burgundy boiler suit to a dinner with a fellow head of government is not...
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War to cause major crisis, warns UN
UNITED NATIONS: A military conflict in the Middle East could trigger a major economic and humanitarian crisis in the already politically troubled region and would be felt well beyond those borders,...
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Conflict to continue for generations: British Muslims issue warning
LONDON: Britain’s biggest Muslim organisation on Monday warned Tony Blair that war with Iraq would cause community relations to deteriorate and breed “bitterness and conflict for generations to come”....
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No independent voice in US newspapers
WASHINGTON: It is more than 30 years ago now, though it seems like yesterday. A Republican president, much derided by liberals, was in the White House and his opponents were being...
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Patten warns US over Iraq rebuilding
BRUSSELS: Europe will not willingly pay for the reconstruction of Iraq if the US does not obtain United Nations authority for war, Chris Patten, the EU external relations commissioner, has warned....
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Democrats line up for US race
WASHINGTON: Will the Democratic nomination be worth having in 2004? Nobody knows. Certainly the Democratic party faces a long, hard, lean year in 2003 as America turns its attention to the...
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Anthrax toxin fights tumours: study
WASHINGTON: Researchers have modified a toxin found in the deadly anthrax bacteria and used it to fight cancerous tumours in mice, according to a study published on Monday....
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