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‘The world must recognize humanitarian disaster facing the Palestinians’
GAZA: The No Man’s land separating Israel from the Gaza Strip gives way to what can only be described as desecrated land. Razor wire and crushed buildings line the route. Torn... 
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Tamil Tigers are no pushovers
COLOMBO: While the Sri Lankan government views the financial pledges made at this week’s aid meeting in Tokyo as a windfall, this sentiment may be short-lived if the Tamil Tigers live...
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Iran protests may presage bigger storm ahead
TEHRAN: Two nights of protests by a few thousand people in Tehran hardly constitute a major threat to Iran’s religious establishment, but the timing and nature of the demonstrations suggest a...
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Is Bush committed to Mideast peace?
WASHINGTON: The question is, is US President George W. Bush really serious — serious enough to put real pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon — about implementing the much-heralded “roadmap”...
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India plans to feed children on GM ‘protato’
LONDON: The government of India raised the global biotechnology stakes on Wednesday by saying it intended to feed “nutritionally enhanced” genetically modified (GM) potatoes to poor children as early as next...
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S. Arabia floats charter to reform AL
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has proposed a plan to reform the Arab political order and the Arab League. It is being envisaged here that the plan would enable the Arab League, believed...
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US supports anti-govt protesters in Iran: Khamenei slams Washington
WASHINGTON, June 12: The United States on Thursday gave its full backing to anti-government protesters in Iran....
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Ex-armymen clash with Mosul officials: 3 killed
ARBIL, June 12: Clashes erupted in Mosul on Thursday as several hundred former members of the Iraqi army demanding their salaries tried to storm a government building in the northern Iraqi...
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US facing organized resistance: Bremer
WASHINGTON, June 12: American troops are being targeted by organized resistance in Iraq, with Saddam Hussein loyalists engaging in “pure political sabotage” and spreading rumours that the toppled president is poised...
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US warns Belgium over war crimes law
BRUSSELS, June 12: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld attacked Belgium on Thursday over a controversial law allowing lawsuits against foreigners for war crimes, saying Washington would oppose funding for a new...
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UN allows exemption to US from ICC
UNITED NATIONS, June 12: The UN Security Council approved on Thursday an exemption for US peacekeepers from prosecution by the new International Criminal Court for another year with France, Germany and...
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NATO cuts bases in drive for global security role
BRUSSELS, June 12: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed on Thursday to a huge reduction of its military bases as part of a drive to revamp the Cold War alliance for...
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CIA didn’t share data with White House: daily
WASHINGTON, June 12: The US Central Intelligence Agency did not share with the White House a report in early 2002 saying that allegations about Iraq trying to obtain uranium from Africa...
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Annan opposes decision
UNITED NATIONS, June 12: United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan warned the UN Security Council on Thursday against repeatedly giving US peacekeeping troops immunity from prosecution by the International Criminal Court....
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Ayodhya priest hospitalized
LUCKNOW, June 12: Ramchandra Paramhans, who has led an explosive Hindu campaign to build a temple on the ruins of a razed mosque in the northern Indian town of Ayodhya, suffered...
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Six killed in Afghanistan
KABUL, June 12: Six people were killed and five injured when a group of gunmen attacked a bus in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, the governor of neighbouring Uruzgan said on Thursday....
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A new Saddam is born ... in Israel
TEL AVIV, June 12: A young couple in Israel has resorted to legal action to name its baby after former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein....
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British cabinet reshuffled
LONDON, June 12: British Prime Minister Tony Blair shook up his cabinet on Thursday, naming John Reid as his new health minister as controversial lord chancellor (justice minister) Lord Irvine stepped...
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