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| February 6, 2003 | Thursday | Zul Hijjah 4,1423 |
S. Arabia seeks last chance to avert war
 RIYADH, Feb 5: Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said on Wednesday that Arab countries must be given a last chance to intervene on behalf of Baghdad to prevent a war...
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Saddam’s interviewer finds Iraqis stoical
LONDON, Feb 5: Iraqis are stoical in the face of potential war and will rally round President Saddam Hussein if bombs start falling, according to a radical British politician and peace...
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N. Korea threatens to defy UN Council
SEOUL, Feb 5: North Korea warned on Wednesday it would no longer recognize the UN Security Council should it not take the United States to task for its “wrong Korean policy”....
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Indian film director not to pray with Bush
WASHINGTON, Feb 5: Renowned Indian film director Mahesh Bhatt has refused an invitation to attend the 51st National Prayer Breakfast meeting with President George W. Bush in Washington on Thursday....
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UK approved of Mugabe visit to France: daily
PARIS, Feb 5: French foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero on Tuesday refused to confirm a story in Le Monde according to which the UK signed a secret agreement with France on...
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Israelis raze house, crush woman
GAZA, Feb 5: The stepmother of a Palestinian militant was crushed to death on Wednesday when Israeli forces razed their home in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said....
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China, Russia for more inspections
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 5: Britain was the only veto-wielding member of the UN Security Council to strongly back the United States after Secretary of State Colin Powell’s presentation on Iraq, with...
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Australian PM suffers defeat
CANBERRA, Feb 5: Australian Prime Minister John Howard suffered a defeat here on Wednesday in an unprecedented no-confidence vote by the senate over his handling of the Iraq crisis....
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Britain to ignore veto
LONDON, Feb 5: Britain is ready to go to war against Iraq without a second UN resolution if any Security Council member blocked such a mandate with a “capricious” veto, Prime...
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Iraq’s Pakistan embassy linked to Al Qaeda
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 5: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday that Iraq maintained active links with Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network using its embassy in Pakistan as a...
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Berlin not to support invasion
BERLIN, Feb 5: Germany will not vote for war on Iraq no matter what evidence US Secretary of State Colin Powell presents to the UN Security Council on Baghdad’s alleged weapons...
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RSF protests BD newsman’s detention
PARIS, Feb 5: French journalists’ rights organization Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) has complained to Bangladesh that journalist Saleem Samad, correspondent of the Daily Times, continues to remain under police surveillance....
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10 European states back US
LJUBLJANA-BUCHAREST, Feb 5: Ten eastern and central European states were drafting a joint declaration supporting US policies regarding Iraq....
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Anglo sentiment’ in US foreign policy LOS ANGELES: In recent months, a curious notion has gradually begun to take hold in the United States, a vague idea for a new basis on which American foreign policy can...
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Chirac seeks pact on cultural diversity PARIS: Speaking before some of France’s best-known actors, singers, musicians, directors and producers, President Jacques Chirac says that France will not in any way allow itself to be crushed by the...
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Oil factor drives heated debate on looming war WASHINGTON: “No blood for oil” is the common cry of those who oppose an Iraq war, from Western peace protesters and many Arab leaders to South Africa’s former president Nelson Mandela....
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N. Korea plays truck and rod game with US satellites SINGAPORE, Feb 5: To a prying US satellite, North Korea’s nuclear game is openly on display, but if Iraq has weapons of mass destruction they are carefully concealed....
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New view of consciousness turns science upside down LONDON: Is the brain simply a computer, and is consciousness merely the feeling we get when we think? Or is consciousness a primary component of the universe, which the brain can...
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