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North Korea preparing for missile test: US
WASHINGTON, March 7: North Korea sent up another warning flag in its confrontation with Washington on Friday, issuing a notice to mariners that indicates they are preparing to conduct another test... 
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US citizens told not to act like Americans
WASHINGTON, March 7: The US State Department said on Friday that it had urged Americans travelling abroad “not to act like Americans” or show behaviour typical of Americans....
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FBI probing hate-crime incident
LOS ANGELES, March 7: As complaints mounted over a nine-day official silence, police on Thursday agreed to consult the FBI in the investigation of a violent, race-related clash between two teen...
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Israelis seize chunk of Gaza Strip
GAZA, March 7: Israeli tanks and troops seized a chunk of the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, effectively carving out a security zone in what the army called an open-ended campaign...
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Soros says Bush is wrong
WASHINGTON, March 7: Billionaire US financier George Soros said on Friday President George Bush was leading the world in the wrong direction towards war in Iraq....
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Arafat names Abu Mazen as premier
GAZA, March 7: Palestinian President Yasser Arafat on Friday asked Mahmoud Abbas — who goes by the nom de guerre Abu Mazen and has kept a back-channel open to Israeli leaders...
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Vote on Cyprus plan blocked
NICOSIA, March 7: Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash, backed by thousands of supporters, on Friday dealt a heavy blow to UN efforts to reunite Cyprus by blocking a parliament move to...
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UK preacher gets jail
LONDON, March 7: A London court on Friday sentenced a Muslim religious figure to nine years in jail after his conviction last month for advocating murder of non-Muslims....
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Court summons five-year-old
NEW DELHI, March 7: A five-year-old Indian boy dutifully showed up in court after receiving a summons, only to find out the case was against his father....
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Court orders Serbs to pay for Srebrenica memorial
SARAJEVO, March 7: Bosnia’s top human rights court ordered Bosnian Serb authorities in a landmark ruling on Friday to pay four million marka (2.25 million dollars) to help Muslim families bury...
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Saddam’s exile is an option: Annan
DUBAI, March 7: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s exile would be “an option” to avoid a US-led strike against Iraq, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said in an interview published Friday in...
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ElBaradei debunks ‘proof’ against Iraq as fake
UNITED NATIONS, March 7: The head of the UN nuclear agency said on Friday that the documents backing U.S. and British allegations that Iraq had attempted to import uranium from Niger...
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S. Arabia hands over suspects to Yemen
RIYADH, March 7: Saudi Arabia has handed over to Yemen two men suspected of involvement in last year’s suicide bombing of a French oil tanker that killed one crew member, a...
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Attack on Iraq is now inevitable
 WASHINGTON: Two things might yet stop President Bush’s momentum toward war with Iraq. One is a deathbed conversion by Saddam Hussein; the other is a last-minute defection by Tony Blair, the...
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Schroeder’s policy angers Washington
BERLIN: His enemies denounce him as a spineless opportunist who sold his soul to stay in power and a weak-willed chameleon isolating Germany with his pacifist blather....
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Lawyers warn of pre-emptive strike’s illegality
LONDON: Tony Blair on Thursday faced fresh pressure to abandon the threat of war against Iraq when 16 eminent academic lawyers warned him that the White House doctrine of “pre-emptive self-defence”...
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US tries to play Russia card, but in vain
MOSCOW: For months now, the White House has been trying to play the Russia card....
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UN study warns of water scarcity
UNITED NATIONS: The world’s limited reserves of clean, fresh water are shrinking fast and posing serious threats to public health, political stability and the environment, according to an analysis released by...
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Melting Antarctic raises sea level
BUENOS AIRES: A top Argentinean expert on the Antarctic has warned that rapidly melting glaciers cascading into the ocean could raise sea level by 7 metres....
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If Osama bin Laden is captured, what then?
WASHINGTON: In the ‘war on terrorism’, there is no greater prize than Osama bin Laden. But the question nags: What would the United States do with him?...
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