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Saudis seek Opec plan to stop oil shock
VIENNA, March 9: Opec meets this week seeking a compromise that guarantees world oil supplies in the event of war, without appearing to underwrite military action against Iraq.... 
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Egyptian paid for Khalid’s capture
NEW YORK, March 9: An Egyptian national arrested in the raid on an Al Qaeda safe house in the border town of Quetta decided to cash in on the $25 million...
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Iraq protests US expulsion of its UN diplomats
BAGHDAD, March 9: Iraq denounced on Sunday what it called a “rabid” US campaign against its diplomats, after the United States expelled two Iraqi officials from the United Nations and urged...
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Archeology excavation at Ayodhya to begin
NEW DELHI, March 9: A team of archeologists arrived in Ayodhya on Sunday where they are to excavate a disputed religious site claimed by Hindus and Muslims....
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Erdogan to be made PM after by-poll win
SIIRT (Turkey) March 9: Tayyip Erdogan, head of Turkey’s ruling party, took a major step towards becoming prime minister on Sunday when he won a by-election sending him out of the...
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Explosion near Kabul was an attack: ISAF
KABUL, March 9: An explosion near Kabul which killed an Afghan interpreter who was part of an ISAF patrol was a deliberate attack, an ISAF spokesman said Sunday....
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Jiang, Blair air views over Iraq
BEIJING, March 9: Chinese President Jiang Zemin and British Prime Minister Tony Blair discussed the Iraq crisis on Sunday but appeared no closer to agreement, the official Chinese Xinhua news agency...
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Clashes with Turk troops possible: Barzani
 DUKAN (Iraq) March 9: Iraqi Kurdish leaders vowed on Sunday to repatriate Kurds expelled from their homes in Kirkuk, but stopped short of threatening to take the city by force if...
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Villepin on Africa visit for votes
PARIS, March 9: In an eleventh-hour effort to give France the possibility of not having to use its veto in the upcoming vote on a US pro-war resolution, French Foreign Minister...
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Russian official flays US
MOSCOW, March 9: A senior Russian official on Sunday accused the United States of inconsistency in its approach to Iraq and “constantly changing the rules of the game.”...
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Muslims to attend Lanka peace talks
COLOMBO, March 9: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will send an independent team of Muslim representatives to attend a forthcoming round of peace talks, set to begin in Japan on...
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Over 300 death references in BD High Court
DHAKA, March 9: More than 300 condemned prisoners, convicted in 331 criminal cases, are still languishing in different jails, as their death references have not yet been heard owing to unavailability...
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Indian police surveying Christians in Gujarat
NEW DELHI, March 9: Police in the western Indian state of Gujarat have been collecting information about Christian families and institutions, a news report said on Sunday....
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Malta votes for EU
 VALLETTA, March 9: Malta’s Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami said on Sunday that 53 per cent of the island’s voters had said “Yes” in a referendum on whether to join the...
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Canberra gives one, takes six in Timor gas deal
SYDNEY: The Australian government is denying claims that it bullied the world’s newest and one of poorest countries — East Timor — to grab a large slice of a 48 billion US dollars gas and oil deal signed between the two countries on Thursday. ...
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Robots at the bedside
LOS ANGELES: Its bedside manner has kinks to work out, but an experimental robot may one day help the US health care industry cope with burgeoning ranks of the elderly and ill....
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Poor Indian villagers walk on diamonds
PALI KHAN (India): Mangaldas lives in a wooden hut, sheltered by a plastic sheet, and lights fires at night to keep away the tigers. But he feels like a king....
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US cosies troops east from German bases BUCHAREST: US troops and equipment are pouring east into Bulgaria and Romania from their bases in Germany in preparation for war on Iraq...
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Craze for war news switches to Internet NEW YORK: News junkies who watched the Gulf War unfold on CNN a little over a decade ago will have a new medium to satisfy their cravings in the event of another armed conflict with Iraq. ...
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Reformists face tough task
DUBAI: The defeat of the reformist camp in Iran’s recent local elections is bound to intensify its struggle with the conservatives, but it also shows rising impatience for a faster, deeper pace of changes in this Islamic republic, experts say....
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