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Blair hopeful of fresh UN resolution
LONDON, Feb 1: British Prime Minister Tony Blair returned home from Washington on Saturday sounding more hopeful of securing a second, politically crucial UN resolution to underpin a US-led military assault... 
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US places Pakistan, China, India on drug list
WASHINGTON, Feb 1: US President George Bush on Friday designated 23 countries as major producers or transit routes of illicit drugs....
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Taliban support growing: UN
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 1: A UN envoy told the United Nations Security Council on Friday that support for the Taliban militia may be growing in select areas of Afghanistan....
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Shuttle debris rains on Texas
 RICE (USA), Feb 1: Debris from the space shuttle Columbia that broke up on Saturday rained down into parts of Texas with residents coming across pieces in fields and on roads,...
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‘Wrong angle’ may have caused disaster
ROME, Feb 1: An incorrect angle of re-entry through the earth’s atmosphere could have caused the US Space Shuttle Columbia to disintegrate, Italian astronaut Umberto Guidoni said Saturday....
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US foreign policy arousing opposition: Powell’s acknowledgment
WASHINGTON, Feb 1: US Secretary of State Colin Powell acknowledged on Friday that US foreign policy, especially on Iraq, was making Washington unpopular abroad....
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Landing process
WASHINGTON, Feb 1: US Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated Saturday on its return to Earth, a process which takes about an hour from leaving orbit to touchdown....
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Space disasters since exploration began
CAPE CANAVERAL, Feb 1: The break-up of Columbia on Saturday was the latest in a series of accidents since space exploration began in 1957 with the launch of the Soviet Sputnik...
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India mourns Kalpana Chawla
 NEW DELHI, Feb 1: A small town in northern India went into mourning and prayer Saturday for Kalpana Chawla — the Indian-born astronaut feared dead along with six others after the...
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Iran using N-plant for arms: US
WASHINGTON, Feb 1: The United States on Saturday renewed accusations that Iran is using its Bushehr light-water reactor to secretly advance a nuclear weapons program, and called once again on Russia...
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US, UK begin horse-trading: Support for Iraq invasion
LONDON-WASHINGTON-MOSCOW: US and British officials at the UN headquarters in New York and in embassies across four continents have embarked on one of the biggest diplomatic arm-twisting exercises in years to...
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UN global fund runs out of money
LONDON: The Global fund to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria by channelling money to poor countries beset by the killer diseases has ran out of cash. The fund was set up...
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EU in crisis after ‘Gang of Eight’ statement
BRUSSELS: EU leaders may hold an emergency summit to discuss the Iraq crisis after this week’s public call by eight European countries to back the US in the escalating confrontation with...
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Moscow plan for Chechnya challenged
MOSCOW: The Council of Europe’s chief negotiator with Russia has offered to resign in protest at the Kremlin’s plans to force the government in Chechnya to accept a political solution drafted...
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Where SC members stand
LONDON: The US is engaged in a diplomatic arm-twisting exercise designed to ensure that members of the UN security council will support a second resolution sanctioning military action in Iraq. This...
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Angkor Wat, temple of turmoil
LONDON: While Thais and Cambodians share the same branch of Buddhism many linguistic and cultural traits, the neighbours have had many spats over the centuries, many of which were linked to...
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Election test for Schroeder
HANOVER: Gerhard Schroeder, already weakened by a precipitous slide in his popularity, faces an electoral test in his home state that threatens to leave him a “lame duck” chancellor, unable to...
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Great threat from unguarded N-weapons
LONDON: As George Bush and Tony Blair prepare for war against Iraq with the declared intention of ridding that country of weapons of mass destruction, a much greater threat lies elsewhere....
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Republicans remove anti-Muslim sticker
WASHINGTON: America’s ruling Republican Party has removed anti-Muslim stickers being sold at a right-wing conference here on Friday....
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Iraq threatens suicide attacks
BAGHDAD, Feb 1: A defiant Iraq threatened to unleash suicide attacks against US nationals in the Middle East and to wipe out any invading force should the Washington wage a new...
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