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Israel using shells banned against civilians
JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP (Gaza Strip) Feb 3: Israeli human rights activists on Monday condemned the army’s continued use of dart-spraying “flechette” shells in a Palestinian revolt after two youths underwent complicated... 
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Kuwait declares border mly zone
KUWAIT, Feb 4: Kuwait’s defence ministry declared on Tuesday northern areas bordering Iraq a military zone closed to unauthorized personnel from Feb 15....
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Ex-official alerted Bush to disaster: White House acknowledgment
WASHINGTON, Feb 3: A former NASA safety official wrote to US President George W. Bush last year to warn of “another catastrophic space shuttle accident,” but Bush did not see the...
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UK sacks radical imam
LONDON, Feb 4: Radical preacher Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri has been removed from his position at the Finsbury Park mosque in London, Britain’s Charity Commission said on Tuesday....
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Shuttle was very risky: Frenchman
 PARIS, Feb 4: French astronaut Patrick Baudry, who flew on the Discovery space shuttle in 1985, said on Monday that he had recommended to US space authorities “several years ago” that...
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War will damage terror fight: Riyadh
RIYADH, Feb 4: Saudi Arabia, which opposes a US-led invasion of Iraq, said on Tuesday that a balanced approach to the Middle East conflict would better serve Washington’s “campaign against terror”...
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Moscow assures Washington of help
MOSCOW, Feb 4: Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Tuesday to closely cooperate with his US counterpart, George Bush, on Iraq while stressing that UN weapons inspectors held the “key” to...
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EU considering sending team to Baghdad
ATHENS, Feb 4: The European Union said on Tuesday it could join a last gasp Arab peace mission to Baghdad and also stepped up efforts for an emergency EU summit to...
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INS claims netting six terror suspects
WASHINGTON, Feb 4: The requirement for male visitors from several Muslim countries to register with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) while in the United States has resulted in the arrest...
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Powell to give ‘pointers rather than proof’
CAIRO, Feb 4: US Secretary of State Colin Powell will tell the United Nations on Wednesday of “pointers, rather than proof” of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, a senior aide was...
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Rebellions and war: Yugoslavia’s chaotic history
BELGRADE, Feb 4: The Yugoslav parliament adopted on Tuesday a draft constitution that officially consigned the state of Yugoslavia to history, and created the new state of Serbia and Montenegro....
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Scepticism overtakes US intelligentsia
WASHINGTON: As President Bush moves the nation closer to a military confrontation to force Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to give up his weapons of mass destruction, an array of domestic opinion-makers...
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Benjamin Franklin’s thoughts on war
PHILADELPHIA: When fears of a devastating attack by French and Spanish privateers swept Philadelphia in 1747, Benjamin Franklin circumvented the city’s pacifist Quaker leadership and organized a private army of 10,000...
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Opium trade thriving in US-led Afghanistan: UN
UNITED NATIONS: Despite the establishment of a democratic government and the presence of a 4,800-strong international peacekeeping force in Kabul, the cultivation of opium is continuing unabated in Afghanistan, a new...
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Turkey gets ready for war, reluctantly
ISTANBUL: Turkey is speeding up its war preparations for fear that sitting out a US-led military strike against Iraq may prove more costly than active involvement....
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N. Korea ups the ante
TOKYO: North Korea is stepping up its nuclear weapons crisis with the United States in an effort to force Washington to negotiate at a time it believes officials there are distracted...
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