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Russia dismisses US objections: Iran’s nuclear plant
MOSCOW, May 29: Russia ignored U.S. objections on Thursday and vowed to keep building a nuclear power plant in Iran, saying only a special U.N. meeting could assess whether Tehran was... 
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US ready to attack Iran: paper
MOSCOW, May 29: Washington has drawn up a plan for military action against Iran principally using bases in Iraq, but also some in Georgia and Azerbaijan, a Russian newspaper said on...
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No diplomat in Iraq has immunity, says US
WASHINGTON, May 29: The United States said on Thursday that all diplomats in Iraq had lost the immunity they enjoyed under the government of President Saddam Hussein....
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Moscow, Beijing oppose US moves
MOSCOW, May 29: Leaders of China, Russia and four Central Asian nations on Thursday warned against unilateral action in the war on global terror and pledged closer ties as Moscow seeks...
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LTTE discusses ceasefire with Lankan govt
COLOMBO, May 29: In what was seen as an historic meeting, a representative group of senior officers of the Sri Lanka Army and several key members of the Liberation Tigers of...
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First mule created thro cloning
WASHINGTON, May 29: A team of US scientists has successfully created a male mule through cloning, making it the first equine species to be cloned....
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Blair tampered with dossier: expert
WASHINGTON, May 29: Britain’s dossier on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction was rewritten on orders from Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government to make it look more dramatic in the months leading...
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VHP raises storm over proposed mosque
NEW DELHI, May 29: A hardline Hindu group said on Thursday it would never allow a mosque to be built near the site of the demolished Babri Mosque where it wants...
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Bob Hope’s 100th birthday celebrated
LOS ANGELES, May 29: Hollywood and generations of US troops joined to salute legendary comic Bob Hope on his 100th birthday on Thursday as America celebrated a century of laughs by...
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Obasanjo sworn in as president
ABUJA, May 29: Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo was sworn in on Thursday for a second term, but the main opposition party said it would not recognize him or his government after...
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Saddam’s bunker never existed: TV network
WASHINGTON, May 29: An underground bunker in Baghdad which the United States said it targeted on the first night of the Iraq invasion to eradicate Saddam Hussein never existed, a US...
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Hillary, Tenzing’s son feted on 50th anniversary of Everest conquest
KATHMANDU, May 29: Fifty years to the day after conquering Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary was feted on Thursday by royalty, politicians and fellow mountaineers, as festivities marking the historic ascent...
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EU draft: ‘superstate’ or ‘superfudge’?
BRUSSELS: For eurosceptics it is a “blueprint for tyranny” leading to a European superstate. For federalists it is a “superflop” — a failed attempt to override the petty nationalism they say...
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Afghanistan sliding back toward chaos
WASHINGTON: A year and a half after US troops invaded Afghanistan and toppled its Taliban rulers, Afghanistan is sliding backward into factional fighting and lawlessness, amid rising opium production and signs...
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Aceh war: phones bleeping in Sweden
STOCKHOLM: In a grim Stockholm suburb, a group of men meet daily to plot the strategy of a guerrilla war fought 10,000 kilometres away in separatist Aceh, where Indonesia launched a...
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Russia holding its own with G8
MOSCOW: Russia’s seat at former G7 summit meetings a few years ago may have been a kindly and clearly political gesture to then President Boris Yeltsin — but his successor, Vladimir...
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UK museum unearths Everest tapes
BRISTOL: Personal testimonies of four Mount Everest pioneers have been discovered in the archives of the only museum dedicated to the rise and fall of the British empire....
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US lacks clear-cut policy on Iran
WASHINGTON: The United States is sending mixed signals to Iran: accusing it of harbouring Al Qaeda operatives while at the same time offering to continue secret talks in Geneva halted temporarily...
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