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Nato sets sights on role beyond borders: Alliance to be overhauled
MADRID, June 3: Nato nations put their bust-up over Iraq behind them on Tuesday, vowing to push ahead with a radical overhaul of the alliance to deal with security threats far... 
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Strikes paralyse France, Austria
 PARIS, June 3: Public sector strikes paralysed parts of Europe on Tuesday, causing mayhem in France and Austria and lesser disruption in Germany and Italy....
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Advani’s elevation planned
NEW DELHI, June 3: India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party will give hardline Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani joint billing with the more moderate Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee during campaigns...
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Morocco attack not isolated: Paris
PARIS, June 3: French police who are assisting Moroccan investigators in their attempt to find those responsible for the May 16 terrorist bombings in Casablanca that killed 43 persons say they...
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Colombo seeks talks with LTTE
COLOMBO, June 3: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has asked his Norwegian counterpart, Jan Petersen, requesting his government to make an arrangement to meet LTTE leaders to discuss the proposed...
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Kabul takes control of Dostum’s checkposts
KABUL, June 3: The Afghan central government has taken over a vital and lucrative northern border post controlled by Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani said on Tuesday....
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Hamas asks Abbas to reject Bush remarks
GAZA CITY, June 3: The Hamas has threatened to disavow Prime Minister Mahmud Abbas as a representative of the Palestinians if he does not reject US President George W. Bush’s comments...
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Karzai leaves for UK today
KABUL, June 3: Afghan President Hamid Karzai leaves for an official visit to Britain on Wednesday to seek economic aid and a greater role for its military in rebuilding the war-ravaged...
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Opinion of US dipping: survey
WASHINGTON, June 3: World opinion of the United States has sunk following the Iraq war and many people have little confidence in US President George W. Bush, according to a survey...
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Ceasefire sought in Valley
SRINAGAR, June 3: Opposition lawmakers in held Kashmir urged Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Tuesday to announce a unilateral truce in the Valley....
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Communal violence in Gujarat
AHMEDABAD, June 3: The refusal by a vendor to sell a soft drink to a boy in Gujarat sparked a communal clash in which three policemen were injured and a house...
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Chirac warns US, UK against going it alone
EVIAN, June 3: French President Jacques Chirac again criticized the war on Iraq on Tuesday and told the United States and Britain not to try to make peace there alone....
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Summit aimed at ending intifada, says Damascus
 DAMASCUS, June 3: Syria on Tuesday criticized US peace efforts at the summit with Arab leaders as an attempt to end a Palestinian uprising for independence while turning a blind eye...
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Uday was hiding in Baghdad: aide
DUBLIN, June 3: Saddam Hussein’s elder son Uday was in hiding in Baghdad 11 days ago and had considered giving himself up to US forces, a former body double said on...
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UK body to probe claims on WMDs
LONDON, June 3: A powerful British parliamentary committee on Tuesday decided to probe the government’s decision to invade Iraq, amid claims that intelligence reports on weapons of mass destruction were embellished...
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Pakistan, India in fierce battle in US Congress
WASHINGTON, June 3: India and Pakistan may be making peace moves in Kashmir, but in the US Congress they are engaged in a fierce battle for influence....
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Myanmar junta ends one-year experiment with moderation
BANGKOK: The Myanmar junta’s year of living dangerously, a year in which the generals permitted their most famous and determined opponent to travel freely around the country promoting their downfall, has...
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US threat yet to unite Iranians
TEHRAN: The suspension of contacts between the United States and Iran, in the wake of Washington’s charges that Tehran is harbouring Al Qaeda members, is the latest prism through which to...
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Africans sceptical of G8 promises
EVIAN: Civil society organizations are becoming increasingly sceptical about the value of the G8 summits to Africa....
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Lottery binds divided Koreans
SEOUL: North and South Korea are divided by a heavily armed border, different political ideologies and an economic gulf, but they share a hot, new trend: Both have been bitten by...
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