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Pentagon considering using riot control agents in Iraq
WASHINGTON, Feb 6: The Pentagon is writing rules of engagement to allow US forces to use non-lethal riot control agents to minimize civilian casualties if the United States goes to war... 
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N. Korea warns US of pre-emptive strike
SEOUL, Feb 6: North Korea said on Thursday it was preparing for total war with the United States and threatened a pre-emptive strike if Washington sent extra forces to the region....
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US wants to colonize Iraq, says Tariq Aziz
PARIS, Feb 6: As far as Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz is concerned, “the only reason for the upcoming US-led attack on Iraq is to turn us into a colony...
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BD FM to visit Delhi over border crisis
DHAKA, Feb 6: Bangladesh’s Foreign Minister M. Morshed Khan decided on Thursday to visit New Delhi following a telephonic invitation last night from his Indian counterpart Yashwant Sinha, to resolve the...
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Israel to train Indian soldiers
WASHINGTON, Feb 6: The Indian army is to send a brigade of special forces troops to Israel for anti-insurgency warfare training designed to help them fight Mujahideen in occupied Kashmir....
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Eight killed in Gaza, W. Bank
NABLUS, Feb 6: Six Arabs and two Israeli soldiers were killed on Thursday in the latest flare-up of violence, including two male nurses gunned down by an Israeli helicopter outside a...
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US information is outdated: expert
STOCKHOLM, Feb 6: The information on Iraqi weapons presented by US Secretary of State Colin Powell on Wednesday is out of date, an expert at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute...
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UK sending 100 planes to Gulf
LONDON, Feb 6: Britain is deploying a total of 100 war planes backed by about 7,000 personnel to the Gulf and Turkey in preparation for possible military action against Iraq, Defence...
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Soldiers stumble into lost Taliban valley near Kandahar
SHAH WALI KOT, Feb 6: A lost valley of Taliban loyalists armed and ready to defend their cause has been found in the remote mountains of southern Afghanistan by soldiers on...
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Scientist accepts private interview
 BAGHDAD, Feb 6: An Iraqi scientist sat down on Thursday for the first Iraqi interview with UN inspectors without official government monitors being present, a senior Iraqi official said here....
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Putin, Chirac call for political solution
MOSCOW, Feb 6: The presidents of Russia and France agreed in a telephone conversation on Thursday that a diplomatic solution should be found to the problem of Iraqi disarmament, the Kremlin...
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Airborne division deployed
WASHINGTON, Feb 6: The 101st Airborne Division of the US Army, one of the primary US ground force divisions, said on Thursday that it had been ordered to the Gulf region....
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Bush, Blair promoting the law of the jungle
LONDON: I have spent the past few years discussing medical ethics with students who are often doctors or nurses. Their work involves them in life-and-death decisions. Our discussions have reminded me...
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Churches leading anti-war movement
HAMBURG, Feb 6: Germany’s mainstream churches have become the surprise focus of the German anti-war movement, denouncing any kind of pre-emptive strike against Iraq as immoral....
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LTTE under pressure over child soldiers
COLOMBO: Two issues — child soldiers and the removal of government troops from the Jaffna peninsula — are threatening the progress of peace talks to end the bloody 19-year-old separatist war...
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Patriotism vs xenophobia in Europe
LONDON: Patriotism is a virtue. It is altruistic: it puts community — the patriot’s state or nation — above self. It is progressive, because citizens who want to make their country...
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Powell puts Schroeder in a fix
BERLIN: For Germany, chairing a UN Security Council meeting for the first time should have been the crowning glory of its foreign policy, marking its full return to the international fold...
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What happens when stock markets go to war?
LONDON: If history is anything to go by, one iron rule can be applied to the stock market at times of war: conflict is good for shares, but only once investors...
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