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France swipes at US over its world view
PARIS, June 14: France’s defence minister took a double swipe at the United States on Saturday, accusing her counterpart Donald Rumsfeld of American supremacism and US industry of waging “economic war”... 
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People lost trust in Blair: paper
LONDON, June 14: A third of British voters appear to have lost confidence in Prime Minister Tony Blair over his handling of the war on Iraq and the issue of weapons...
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Two Koreas set up historic rail link
SEOUL, June 14: Despite tensions over North Korea’s nuclear programme, South and North Korea on Saturday held a ceremonial restart in construction of a rail link....
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77pc Czechs vote for EU membership
PRAGUE, June 14: A clear 77.3 per cent majority voted for Czech membership of the European Union in the two-day referendum which ended Saturday, according to provisional results with 99.8 per...
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Rockets fired at Bagram base
BAGRAM AIR BASE, June 14: Unknown attackers fired up to three rockets at a US base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, but there were no casualties amid a seasonal increase in...
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CIA feels heat over WMDs
WASHINGTON, June 14: The CIA’s failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq may cause major changes in the agency, including a possible retirement of its director, reports said on...
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Tamil leader assassinated
COLOMBO, June 14: A top Tamil politician was assassinated by an unidentified gunman in Sri Lanka’s northern town of Jaffna on Saturday, military officials said....
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Protests said to have spread in Iran
TEHRAN, June 14: Iranian authorities denied Saturday that an anti-regime protester has been killed in clashes in Shiraz, southern Iran, as reports emerged that demonstrations have spread from the Iranian capital...
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Pakistan is a good ally: US
NEW YORK, June 14: A State Department spokesman said on Friday that the United States continued to receive “good cooperation” from Pakistan on its global ‘war against terrorism’....
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‘Dirty bomb’ denied
BANGKOK, June 14: A Thai man arrested for illegal possession of radioactive material denied on Saturday he was involved in any plot to make a ‘dirty bomb,’ as authorities searched his...
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Draft may alter EU if left intact
BRUSSELS: The constitution adopted on Friday for the enlarged European Union could radically change the way the bloc does business, but only if member states do not scupper its key advances...
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Chalabi wants Iraqis’ role
WASHINGTON: The Bush administration is making a mistake by refusing to give Iraqis more authority over their own country, Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi said on Friday, warning that the...
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Which Iranian group has upper hand?
TEHRAN: For Iran, protests by students and other opponents, American threats, human rights violation charges and accusations over its nuclear projects are nothing new....
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Guevara retains powerful symbolism
MEXICO CITY/HAVANA: Although he fought against capitalism, his face has became a very marketable item. Today, a 1960 portrait of Argentine-Cuban revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara appears on T- shirts and telephone...
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Mideast violence tests resolve of US diplomacy
WASHINGTON: An upsurge in Middle East violence this week is testing the Bush administration’s commitment to its peace plan but analysts say it has invested too much in its current approach...
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Tereshkova’s days in space
MOSCOW: On June 16, 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was launched into orbit in the Vostok-6 space capsule, scoring another point over the United States during its hard-fought space race with...
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