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China supports call for more inspections
BRUSSELS, Feb 11: The United States on Tuesday defended its war plans for Iraq both in NATO and at the UN Security Council, but they were dealt another blow when China... 
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Washington unable to aid Moscow space plan: Nasa cites Tehran link
MOSCOW, Feb 11: The US space agency said on Tuesday an obscure US law aimed at curbing Iran’s military ambitions bars Washington from financing Moscow’s struggling space program even though it...
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Russia to facilitate talks on Korea
MOSCOW, Feb 11: Russia on Tuesday announced plans to get direct talks going between Pyongyang and Washington in a bid to defuse the standoff over North Korea’s nuclear ambitions....
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Russia, France offer planes
PARIS, Feb 11: France is ready to provide to the United Nations two Mirage IV aircraft for “air reconnaissance and observation” in Iraq, the French army announced on Tuesday....
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Majority of Frenchmen back veto against war
 PARIS, Feb 11: In a BVA opinion poll published in Tuesday’s issue of the Le Figaro national daily newspaper, 73 per cent of the French say that France should make use...
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Demo near UN HQ disallowed
NEW YORK, Feb 11: A US judge on Monday refused to allow antiwar demonstrators to march on United Nations headquarters on Saturday citing safety concerns in “this time of heightened security.”...
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LTTE vessel was carrying arms: monitors
COLOMBO, Feb 11: The Norwegian ceasefire monitors on Tuesday said the LTTE vessel that was blown up by guerillas last week was carrying arms and ammunition....
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‘Chicago’ starts Oscar race with 13 nominations
BEVERLY HILLS (USA), Feb 11: The musical “Chicago”, the drama “The Hours” and fantasy spectacular “The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers” were named among the five Oscar nominees for...
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Kuwait to have special laws during war
KUWAIT CITY, Feb 11: Kuwait would enforce a number of special laws, including the option of martial law, in case the US went to war with Iraq, reported an Arabic daily....
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Israeli doctors demand masks for Palestinians
TEL AVIV, Feb 11: Israel’s Physicians for Human Rights petitioned the country’s High Court on Tuesday to order authorities to supply gas masks to all Palestinians in the West Bank and...
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Widening Atlantic split points to deeper divisions
LONDON: Amid talk of Nato’s imminent disintegration, transatlantic trench warfare and the UN’s collapse into League of Nations oblivion, it is vital to ......
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‘New Russia’ comes to help ‘old Europe’
PARIS, Feb 2: French President Jacques Chirac was very eager to talk to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, on Monday....
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Why North Korea returned to the cold
LONDON: The North Korean regime may be murderous and tyrannical, but it certainly has a sense of timing. As Colin Powell tracked the latest half mile across the shifting sands of...
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Turkey nervously eyes Iraq
ANKARA: Turkey is bargaining hard with the United States for broad freedom of action in northern Iraq in the event of war, haunted by historic suspicions of the West and fears...
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Failure of food aid adds to Gaza’s mounting agony
GAZA: More than a million Palestinians, already suffering economic collapse, growing unemployment and malnutrition levels comparable to those in Congo, are threatened with food shortages because western governments have turned their...
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US media go to war against France
NEW YORK-PARIS: The “petulant prima donna of realpolitik” is leading the “axis of weasels”, in “a chorus of cowards”. It is an unholy alliance of “wimps” and ingrates which includes one...
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