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US rips France for threatening veto
WASHINGTON, March 12: The United States on Wednesday ripped into France for vowing to veto a new UN Security Council resolution on Iraq, calling it “disturbing” and implying strongly that Paris... 
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UN members call for peaceful resolution
UNITED NATIONS, March 12: An overwhelming majority of member states, speaking on Tuesday at an open UN Security Council debate on Iraq called for a peaceful resolution of the crisis instead...
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Israeli soldier, Jihad man killed in gunbattle
NABLUS, March 12: An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian gunman were killed in a West Bank shootout on Wednesday, the latest deadly skirmish between troops scouring the territory and militants fighting...
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US Muslim students face death threats
WASHINGTON, March 12: Police and FBI officials assured Muslim students at San Jose State University that they would protect them after a graffiti scrawled across the campus threatened to kill all...
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Washington sees itself above the law: rights group
GENEVA, March 12: A leading US rights group accused the United States on Wednesday of seeing itself above human rights law and hinted this could put its own troops at risk...
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Iran recalls envoy to Argentina
TEHRAN, March 12: Iran has recalled its top diplomat in Buenos Aires after an Argentine judge issued arrest warrants for Iranian officials in connection with a deadly 1994 bombing, the state...
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Some UN observers quit posts
KUWAIT, March 12: A UN force monitoring the Iraq-Kuwait border said on Wednesday it was temporarily removing some observers from remote parts of a demilitarized zone that US troops would have...
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Osama to get stronger, says Qadhafi
PARIS, March 12: “Be forewarned,” Libyan head of state Muammar Qadhafi tells US President George W Bush in an exclusive front page interview on Tuesday morning’s issue of the French daily...
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US firm given first rebuilding contract
CAIRO, March 12: The United States has apparently awarded its first contract to help rebuild Iraq after an anticipated attack, the authoritative Middle East Economic Digest (MEED) said on Wednesday....
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Who got the bounty?
PARIS, March 12: Guillaume Dasquie, a French authority on Al Qaeda, says that a story floated last weekend by the US government with regard to who was awarded the 25 million...
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Bapsy Sidhwa’s play to open on 20th
LONDON, March 12: Pakistani writer Bapsy Sidhwa’s play, Sock ‘em with Honey, is due to open in London at the Leicester Haymarket Studio on March 20....
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UK, US paths to war may be diverging: Blair paying heavy price
LONDON: Tony Blair has been held up to the light by the Iraq crisis in a way few prime ministers have ever experienced. With increasing intensity, his every word, his every...
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Book debates how Australia stopped refugee boats
CANBERRA: A newly-released book that says Australian Immigration Minister Phillip Ruddock asked in 2001 about stopping and sabotaging boats carrying asylum seekers to the country has rekindled a controversy about Australia’s...
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Spotlight on role played by US Jews in crisis
WASHINGTON: The prominence of neo-conservative Jews in the campaign for war against Iraq and the perception that Israel has much to gain from the ouster of Saddam Hussein are fuelling growing...
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Computer simulation shows Iraqi war will be complex
WASHINGTON: Although US military planners talk of a quick, short war with Iraq, it is fraught with uncertainties....
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Aquifers may help solve water problems
WASHINGTON: With Earth’s inventory of clean, fresh water dwindling fast, scientists who once looked to the clouds are increasingly looking downward for new sources of the life-giving resource. What’s tempting them...
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‘Not a penny’ given for UN appeal
LONDON: The United Nations accused the world on Tuesday of allowing the crisis in the Middle East to distract it from a famine threatening more than a million people in the...
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Pandora’s Box set to open in Ayodhya
NEW DELHI: On Wednesday, the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) launched a truly extraordinary project when it started excavating the super-controversial site in Ayodhya where a 16th century mosque was destroyed...
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