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Two aircraft carriers sent to Gulf: US incites Iraqi soldiers to rebellion
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21: The Pentagon on Tuesday ordered two additional aircraft carriers to deploy to the Gulf region in preparation for an invasion of Iraq.... 
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Cable TV banned in Afghanistan
KABUL, Jan 21: Afghanistan’s supreme court on Tuesday imposed a nationwide ban on cable television, chief justice Mawlawi Fazel Hadi Shinwari said on Tuesday, throwing the country’s fledgling broadcast media into...
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Osama got away with guard’s help: daily
WASHINGTON, Jan 21: Osama bin Laden escaped Afghanistan by giving his satellite phone to his Moroccan bodyguard, who served as decoy for US forces tracking the signal, The Washington Post reported...
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Police term Indian’s murder an isolated act
DUBAI, Jan 21: The Dubai police on Tuesday claimed it had made headway in investigations into the murder of a Dubai-based Indian businessman....
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Israelis arrest militant’s wife
RAMALLAH, Jan 21: The Israeli army arrested the wife of wanted Hamas militant Falah Nada on Tuesday near the West Bank town of Ramallah....
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UN asks N. Korea to review decision
GENEVA, Jan 21: UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on Tuesday urged North Korea to reconsider its decision to pull out of a key international disarmament treaty to block the spread of...
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Co-education is un-Islamic, says judge
KABUL, Jan 21: Afghanistan’s chief justice on Tuesday termed co-education un-Islamic, casting a further shadow over the country’s already battered schooling system....
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Buildup gathers momentum
LONDON, Jan 21: The Pentagon on Monday ordered another 37,000 U.S troops to deploy to the Gulf region, bringing to nearly 100,000 the number ordered to go since Jan 1....
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Key Muslim nations to meet in Istanbul
 ANKARA, Jan 21: Turkey, a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, will host a meeting on Thursday of foreign ministers of key regional players Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and...
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Global bodies lack accountability: One World Trust report
WASHINGTON: As the world’s economic and progressive elites gather in Switzerland and Brazil this week to discuss globalisation, a first-of-its-kind analysis of the accountability of the world’s most powerful organisations concludes...
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Support for war falls to new low in UK
LONDON: Support among British voters for military action against Iraq has slumped six points in the last month to its lowest level since pollsters ICM began regularly tracking opinion on the...
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Pakistan’s N-programme again under attack
WASHINGTON: Pakistan has once again been accused of sharing nuclear technology with North Korea....
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Anti-war protests across Arab world
DAMASCUS: Anti-war rallies are being staged across the Arab world after the recent reports by United Nations inspectors made an attack on Iraq look imminent....
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Frightened immigrants refuse to register with INS
WASHINGTON: Mohammed’s relatives filed somberly into his sister-in-law’s cramped living room, too distracted to pass around the Moroccan sweets they usually enjoy after family dinners. They had come to help...
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Small EU states foresee subjugation
BRUSSELS: Many of the 10 countries slated to join the European Union next year fear that the convention charting the EU’s future could spell a new kind of subjugation, so soon...
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Chirac hopes for Paris, Berlin ‘veritable union’
PARIS: Jacques Chirac made clear his ambition for the recently revived Franco-German alliance on Monday, saying it would be the “driving force” for the “refounding of the European project”....
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