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| July 21, 2003 | Monday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 20, 1424 |
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Indians, Israelis team up on Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON: When the House passed a $3 billion aid package for Pakistan last week, Jewish and Indian American lobbyists teamed up to win an amendment pressuring Pakistan to stop militants from... 
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Athens’ first mosque stirs ripples
ATHENS: It is a sound which has echoed down the centuries in neighbouring countries but which has not been heard here for 170 years — the call to prayer....
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Famed Baghdad hotel serves occupiers
BAGHDAD: Surly clerks, grimy towels, painfully slow elevators and missing room keys are trying the patience of guests at Baghdad’s famed Al Rasheed Hotel....
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US used UN resolutions’ cover to attack Iraq
NEW YORK: Using the cover of UN resolution on Iraqi violations of no fly zone, adopted in 1990, American air war commanders carried out a comprehensive plan to disrupt Iraq’s military...
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Blair lives in a world of ‘should be’s’
LONDON: For those who say they simply cannot fathom Tony Blair’s apparently willing subservience to George Bush’s Washington, his speech to this week’s joint session of the US Congress offers a...
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Rafah hopes quiet will last
RAFAH: Two weeks after the Israeli army partially withdrew from Rafah’s impoverished Hay as-Salam neighbourhood on the Gaza-Egypt border,the lucky few whose houses are still standing are starting to move back,...
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US military debacle triggers calls for withdrawal
UNITED NATIONS: The United States military debacle in Iraq is triggering calls for a withdrawal of US troops, who are dying at an average of about one soldier per day in...
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UN to discuss Iraq in public session
UNITED NATIONS, July 20: The UN Security Council on Tuesday will for the first time take stock, in a long-awaited public session, of the situation in Iraq four months after the...
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416 dead in India, BD floods
 NEW DELHI-DHAKA, July 20: The current spell of monsoon rains and floods claimed at least 416 lives in India and Bangladesh as swollen rivers continued to submerge fresh areas, reports said...
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N. Korea has secret N-reactor, says NYT
WASHINGTON, July 20: North Korea may be operating a secret nuclear reactor buried in a mountain range, the New York Times reported on Sunday....
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14 die in plane crash on Mount Kenya
NAIROBI, July 20: A South African plane carrying 12 American tourists crashed into Mount Kenya, Africa’s second-highest mountain, killing all on board, officials said Sunday....
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Iran arms its guards with new ballistic missile: Israel worried
TEHRAN, July 20: Iran’s supreme leader on Sunday inaugurated a new ballistic missile that brings Israel within range of the Iran hailing the event as a key moment in the defence...
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Israel to build 30 towns in Galilee, Negev desert
AL QUDS, July 20: Israeli Premier Ariel Sharon’s office is planning to build 30 new towns, most of them in the northern Galilee and the southern Negev desert, the Israeli Ha’aretz...
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Shepherd takes Rumsfeld, Franks to court
RAMADI (Iraq), July 20: An Iraqi shepherd launched a court case Sunday against top US military leaders after a US plane shelled his desert camp during the war to oust Saddam...
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UNHCR studying Iraq’s internal refugees
BAGHDAD, July 20: The United Nations is looking to find a solution to the problem of more than one million internally displaced Iraqis, uprooted under Saddam Hussein’s regime, refugee agency chief...
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16 hurts in Nice blasts
NICE, July 20: Sixteen people were slightly wounded early on Sunday when two explosive devices were detonated near the entrance to the customs and financial administration building in the southern French...
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‘Paris Beach’ opens for second year
PARIS, July 20: The “beach” along the Seine River in the heart of Paris opened on Sunday for its second year....
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Anti-Muslim,anti-Arab websites flourishing
PARIS, July 20: French anti-racist organisation MRAP has issued a report severely condemning what it refers to as “a new alliance between the (traditional) extreme Right and other extremists proclaiming themselves...
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Corruption case against former BD minister
DHAKA, July 20: The Bureau of Anti-Corruption filed a case with the police against the home minister in former prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s cabinet Mohammad Nasim, for owning for owning property...
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Yangtze rises above warning levels
BEIJING, July 20: Waters in China’s largest river, the Yangtze, and in its major tributary the Huai River, remained above warning levels at the weekend as a violent storm killed at...
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