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Blair under fire over plagiarized Iraq dossier
LONDON, Feb 7: British Prime Minister Tony Blair was accused on Friday of playing the same “propaganda games” as Iraqi President Saddam Hussein after chunks of an “intelligence” dossier on Iraq... 
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Hands off Kirkuk, US tells Turks, Kurds
WASHINGTON, Feb 7: Turkish troops can enter a border area of Iraq for border control and humanitarian purposes if the United States invades Iraq but Washington does not want any Turkish...
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IAEA chief ready to meet Saddam
LARNACA (Cyprus), Feb 7: Chief UN weapons inspectors on Friday demanded drastically improved cooperation from Iraq in the search for any weapons of mass destruction and called for a meeting with...
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Inspectors due in Iraq today
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 7: All eyes are focused on the visit of UN weapons inspectors Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei to Iraq on Saturday and their critical report to the UN...
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3 LTTE men kill themselves
COLOMBO, Feb 7: Three LTTE members blew themselves up in northern Sri Lanka on Friday after blasting their vessel into flames by high-powered bombs as the ship was about to be...
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All options open on North Korea: Bush
WASHINGTON, Feb 7: US President George Bush said on Friday he would work with allies like China and Russia to resolve a nuclear dispute with North Korea peacefully, but warned “all...
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Mig makers blame India for frequent crashes
BANGALORE, Feb 7: Russian Aircraft Corporation, makers of Mig aircraft, on Friday blamed India’s poor quality control of equipment for a string of crashes in the last decade....
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US media campaign irks Saudis
WASHINGTON, Feb 7: The Saudi embassy in Washington said on Friday that US officials had arrested Saudi nationals for visa violations even though they had stayed in the country to cooperate...
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Draft EU constitution leaves out religion; Vatican upset
BRUSSELS, Feb 7: A committee working on a proposed constitution for the European Union on Thursday released a draft that failed to make any mention of religion, bringing an instant rebuke...
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8 policemen arrested in Dhaka
DHAKA, Feb 7: Eight policemen and a police informer were arrested in here on Thursday night on charges of extortion. Police took them into custody on a one-day remand on Friday....
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Mandela’s lawyer again takes up a ‘treason’ case
JOHANNESBURG: Forty years after George Bizos argued Nelson Mandela’s innocence in a high-profile treason trial, the top human rights lawyer now finds himself in a Zimbabwean court pleading a similar case....
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N. Korea ready to perish than give up
PYONGYANG: The dress rehearsal for the apocalypse begins at 10am sharp in Kim il-sung Square with a terrifying wail of sirens. As a cacophony of loudspeaker warnings of enemy attack echoes...
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French party calls for boycott of US goods
PARIS: A political party led by former French defence minister Jean-Pierre Chevenement, is calling for a boycott of US-made products....
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World in need of a new kind of globalization
WASHINGTON: There was a strong conviction among tens of thousands of citizen activists — who gathered in Porto Alegre, Brazil, for six days late last month for the World Social Forum...
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Mud & sweat as US digs for dead
TONG MAU (Cambodia): In the middle of a remote Cambodian paddyfield near the Vietnam border, 10 sweaty Americans are digging a large hole....
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Japan debating burial of its ‘pacifist’ constitution
TOKYO: The governor of Tokyo, Shintaro Ishihara, is no stranger to flak. He is often pilloried in the press for harbouring and airing what are widely regarded as ultranationalistic views. His...
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