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NY police admit to keeping data on protesters
NEW YORK, April 10: New York police admitted on Thursday to compiling and then destroying a database of people arrested during anti-war protests, but rights groups decried the practice as an... 
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Scientists identify SARS virus
WASHINGTON, April 10: Scientists said on Thursday they had identified the virus behind the deadly respiratory illness spreading worldwide and proposed naming it after a doctor who first identified the disease...
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Ruins examined for evidence: Saddam’s fate
WASHINGTON, April 10: US officials pressed a search for evidence of the fate of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Thursday, inspecting for the first time the ruins of a Baghdad building...
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Damascus for end of occupation
DAMASCUS, April 10: Syria called on Thursday for an end to the occupation of Iraq, and maintained silence in the face of US accusations that it is helping supporters of President...
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Saddam’s ‘remains’ identifiable, says expert
WASHINGTON, April 10: If Saddam Hussein is dead, how will the world know?...
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US hawks for action against Tehran
WASHINGTON, April 10: Emboldened by the demise of the Iraqi government, hawks in Washington are setting their sights on regime change in Iran and Syria....
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Concorde to be grounded
PARIS, April 10: At a press conference held on Thursday Air France chairman Jean-Cyril Spinetta announced his decision to stop flying the supersonic Concorde as of next Oct 31, largely because...
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22nd day of war
* Suicide bomber kills “some” American soldiers at military checkpoint in Baghdad....
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Celebrities’ favourite
LONDON, April 10: When Concorde flies off into the sunset for the last time in October, it will be the end of a glamorous era for the celebrity commuters who crowned...
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US calls for closure of embassies
WASHINGTON, April 10: The United States has renewed its call to more than 60 countries to shut down Iraqi embassies, seize their assets and expel senior diplomats following the fall of...
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Syria behaving badly, says Wolfowitz
WASHINGTON, April 10: Syria has been “behaving badly” on the sidelines of the Iraq invasion, but while US officials are monitoring the situation closely, military intervention was not anticipated, US Deputy...
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Japan’s N-scandals stymie Kyoto goals
TOKYO: Japan’s plans to meet its obligations under the Kyoto accord on global warming could be in jeopardy as public safety concerns hinder the construction of new nuclear reactors low in...
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US indecisive as it gets hold of Iraq
WASHINGTON: Even as US troops helped bring down Baghdad’s most imposing statues of President Saddam Hussein, the big question here on Wednesday was, ‘What now?’, not just for Iraq and the...
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Aborigine remains returned to Australia
SYDNEY: The bodies of 75 Aboriginal men and women were returned to Australia on Wednesday after spending decades in the collection of the UK’s Royal College of Surgeons in London....
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Saddam Hussein: how history will remember him
KUWAIT CITY: Even by Arab standards, the cult of Saddam Hussein was obsessive. Until Wednesday (April 9) it was difficult to turn a corner in Baghdad without coming upon a statue...
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‘Friendly fire’ bothers contractors
NEW YORK: Even the smartest weapons are dumb when the people who programme or fire them make mistakes....
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