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Delhi to consult ME states over US plea: Troops for Iraq
NEW DELHI, June 15: The Indian government is to hold consultations with countries in the Middle East over whether it should send troops to Iraq, Foreign Minister Yashwant Sinha said on... 
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Hamas must be dealt with harshly: Bush: Congressman for sending US forces
KENNEBUNKPORT, June 15: US President George Bush called on the international community on Sunday to “deal harshly” with Hamas and other Palestinian hardline groups behind attacks in Israel....
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Accord likely on Israeli pullout
TEL AVIV, June 15: Middle East peace hopes brightened on Sunday with progress reported in bringing Palestinian militants on board a ceasefire deal and an accord near on the withdrawal of...
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Iraqis keep their guns as deadline expires
BAGHDAD, June 15: Iraqis snubbed a deadline to surrender their weapons by June 15, with the US-led forces reporting on Sunday that only a few hundred arms had been handed over....
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Lawmakers call for isolating Arafat
Washington, June 15: Two leading US lawmakers said on Sunday the world needed to further marginalize Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to boost the latest international peace effort in the Middle East....
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France opposes US move against North Korea
PARIS, June 15: French strategic planners say they’re attempting to counter suggestions presently being made by Washington to Moscow, that Russian forces take part in a US-led “preventive” strike on nuclear...
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Excavation at Ayodhya mishandled, say Muslims
LUCKNOW, June 15: An influential Muslim body on Sunday accused an archeological team of carrying out unscientific excavations at the site of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya....
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Truce monitors meet LTTE leader
COLOMBO, June 15: A team of officials from the Scandinavian ceasefire monitors, the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission headed by General Tryggve Tellefsen, on Friday concluded their discussions with head of the...
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317 pilots lose jobs in Canada
TORONTO, June 15: Air Canada, hit hard by Sars, has been forced to lay off 317 pilots and ground six Boeing 747s in the next few months, a spokesman for the...
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RSF flays Iran for jailing journalists
PARIS, June 15: Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) is calling on the European Union to “react firmly” to the arrest Saturday by Iranian authorities of two journalists because they had met secretly...
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Cyprus land ownership still controversial
NICOSIA: One man returned to his home to find a football pitch in its place, another found his in a military zone and can view it only from the distance, and...
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US drive for domination is unprecedented
LONDON: The present world situation is unprecedented. The great global empires of the past — such as the Spanish and notably the British — bear little comparison with what we see...
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Roadmap looks like a dead end
AL QUDS: With the US-backed road map peace plan in danger of being swallowed up by the latest round of bloodletting in the Middle East, the prevailing sense among Palestinians is...
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‘War against terrorism’: weighing up the pros and cons
Dear Paul, Bombing in Kabul, suicide bombers in Gaza, street fighting in Baghdad and hatred in the streets of Cairo .........
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