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Future bleak for ISS after shuttle disaster
PARIS, Feb 2: Already mired in delays, financial problems and a row over why it even exists, the International Space Station has been dealt a new and potentially crippling blow with... 
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French PM in India for Scorpene, Exocet deal
PARIS, Feb 2: French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin is to arrive on February 5 in New Delhi for a three-day (Feb. 6-8) official visit during which he is to put the...
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500,000 watch fireworks in HK
 HONG KONG, Feb 2: Some 500,000 people watched a spectacular fireworks display to welcome the Chinese New Year in Hong Kong on Sunday evening....
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New resolution not required, Syria stresses
DAMASCUS, Feb 2: Syria said on Sunday that a new UN resolution seeking military action against Iraq was not required for the time being and that weapons inspectors must be allowed...
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Putin hails veterans on anniversary
VOLGOGRAD, Feb 2: President Vladimir Putin marked the 60th anniversary of the Russian Stalingrad victory against Germany on Sunday but avoided being drawn into a campaign to give Volgograd back its...
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Jospin opposes France joining war in Iraq
PARIS, Feb 2: Former French prime minister Lionel Jospin has broken his silence to say that France should resolve not to go to war against Iraq, by breaking even if the...
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Russian cargo rocket blasts off for ISS
BAIKONUR (Kazakhstan) Feb 2: A Russian cargo rocket carrying food and fuel blasted off for the International Space Station on Sunday, a day after the US shuttle Columbia broke up minutes...
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S. Arabia to limit foreigners
RIYADH, Feb 2: Saudi Arabia, striving to create more jobs for nationals, decided on Sunday to lower the number of foreigners in the kingdom to a maximum of 20 per cent...
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Schroeder’s SPD routed in state polls
BERLIN, Feb 2: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democrats suffered crushing defeats in two state elections on Sunday as voters vented their anger at high unemployment, tax hikes and near-recession, polls...
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Muslim women march against violence
PARIS, Feb 2: In spite of sub-zero temperatures, sleet and snow, thousands of Muslim women turned up on Saturday for the first day of a five-week march that will take them...
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Qatar’s education reforms under way
DOHA, Feb 2: Here in Qatar, education reform had been on the agenda since well before Sept 11. But it was not until a month after the 2001 attacks that the...
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Oklahoma rescinds law on headscarves
WASHINGTON, Feb 2: Officials in Oklahoma State have rescinded a law banning religious head coverings in driver’s licence photos, reports said on Sunday....
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Five possible causes for heat shield failure: German expert
HAMBURG, Feb 2: German space experts said on Sunday the inquiry into the space shuttle Columbia disaster would focus on the heat shield, with damage to insulation tiles during the launch...
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Experts sit back and watch money move
LONDON: For all the headline-grabbing dawn raids and alleged ricin poison plots, Britain’s security services are doing nothing to seize terrorists’ money. This, believe it or not, is deliberate....
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US, UK plan is to exhaust UN moves, then strike
WASHINGTON-NEW YORK: On Saturday morning at 6.15am, the British Prime Minister’s Boeing 777 made its final approach to Heathrow. On touchdown, Tony Blair made his way to...
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Expatriates pack bags as war looms
KUWAIT CITY: At a dinner party in an upmarket Japanese restaurant in Kuwait, talk among western expatriates centres on leaving the Gulf state, where Americans have recently become a terrorist target...
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Anti-war rally outside Buckingham Palace
LONDON: The British government is facing the embarrassing prospect of reversing its ban on an anti-war protest at London’s Hyde Park or allowing more than half a million demonstrators to hold...
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False trails that lead to supposedly Al Qaeda ‘links’
NEW YORK-LONDON-AMMAN: Since the aftermath of Sept 11, it has been the Holy Grail of Bush administration hardliners: to link Iraq with Al Qaeda — and join up its war on...
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