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Worldwide marches against attack: Anti-war protests continue
PARIS, March 15: Hundreds of thousands of people around the world marched, chanted and carried banners Saturday to protest a looming war in Iraq, and thousands more planned to rally in... 
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Atypical pneumonia spreading rapidly
PARIS, March 15: French health authorities have decided to send a special emergency mission to Hanoi where four doctors working at the private Hospital Francais de Hanoi have been severely stricken...
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Gulf states welcome US ‘roadmap’
DUBAI, March 15: Arab Gulf states Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates welcomed Saturday US and British statements on a “roadmap” for Middle East peace....
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Turkey drags its feet on Iraq decision
ANKARA, March 15: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said a decision on backing the United States against Iraq was not on his immediate agenda....
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Thousands attend slain Serb PM’s funeral
 BELGRADE, March 15: Serbia was brought to a standstill on Saturday as the country buried slain prime minister Zoran Djindjic in Belgrade with highest military honours with hundreds of thousands of...
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EU unhappy over customs deal with US
PARIS, March 15: The European Parliament is up in arms over a controversial and confidential agreement — a “joint declaration” as it is referred to by European authorities — entered...
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War is days away, say diplomats at UN
UNITED NATIONS, March 15: “War is just days away,” diplomats said here on Friday as the UN Security Council reached a complete “impasse” as US and Britain could not muster enough...
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Muslim Up arrives after Mecca Cola
PARIS, March 15: Just as the existence of Coca Cola brought about in its wake the creation of Pepsi, it was inevitable that France which gave the world the bestselling Mecca...
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Australian town wants to defect to France
SYDNEY, March 15: Residents in a coastal city want to symbolically defect to France because they say the Australian government does not represent their anti-war stance on Iraq, local media reported...
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Two killed
NABLUS, March 15: Two Palestinian men, aged 25 and 28, were gunned down in their home villages near the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Saturday, Palestinian medics said....
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A divided EU heads into troubled waters
BRUSSELS: Fading hopes for a second UN resolution authorising war on Iraq spell disaster for the European Union, already damaged by furious exchanges between Britain and France, and a big setback...
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Indian plan to link all its rivers
NEW DELHI: On paper, India’s ambitious, 112 billion U.S. dollar project to link together its major river systems looks good enough to drown out its most trenchant critics....
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High oil prices could ruin world economy: Yamani
LONDON: Oil prices could race to well over $50 per barrel and “ruin” the world economy if Iraqi crude output is severely hit by a US military strike, former Saudi oil...
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Leaked documents reveal tensions
NEW YORK-MADRID: Britain’s diplomatic efforts to win UN Security Council support for its Iraq strategy lay in disarray as leaked documents from participants in the behind-closed-doors discussion of recent days showed...
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The praxis of upheaval according to neo-conservatives
WASHINGTON: “Whenever I hear policy makers talk about the wonders of ‘stability’, I get the heebie-jeebies,” wrote Michael Ledeen, a “scholar” at the neo-conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in early 2000....
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Two men work to impeach Bush
NEW YORK: Is impeaching President George W. Bush an unrealistic goal? Not according to former US attorney general Ramsey Clark, who believes that his “Vote to Impeach” campaign has a genuine...
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