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US using 9/11 report to pressure Riyadh: Saudi analysts’ assessment
RIYADH: A congressional report suggesting Saudi Arabia may have had a hand in the September 11, 2001, attacks is an attempt by US hawks to step up pressure on Riyadh and... 
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NZ’s ‘Ban the Bomb’ movement turns 30
WELLINGTON: Thirty years ago this month, the New Zealand government mounted what was probably the first state-sponsored Ban the Bomb protest, stationing a navy ship off a tiny South Pacific atoll...
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Wounds of anti-Tamil riots still fester in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO: Twenty years after Sri Lanka’s worst pogrom of minority Tamils, an event that shamed a nation while the world looked in horror, bitterness and pain among Tamils toward the majority...
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Idi Amin stirs debate from death bed
KAMPALA: Lying in a coma in a Saudi Arabian hospital, Uganda’s notorious former dictator Idi Amin has no idea about the debate that is raging in his home country over whether...
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Killings to continue, warn Iraqis
FALLUJA: US officials believe the deaths of Saddam Hussein’s sons will help staunch attacks on US troops in Iraq. But Iraqis in the restive town of Falluja on Friday forecast more...
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Myanmar remains a thorn in Asia-Europe relations
NUSA DUA (Indonesia): Myanmar remains a thorn in Asia-Europe relations despite an unprecedented agreement demanding that the country’s military rulers free democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi....
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Publishing business in tatters in Mideast
BEIRUT: If the saying was ever true that Egypt writes, Lebanon publishes, and Iraq reads, it certainly isn’t anymore....
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Mosul residents slam American action
MOSUL, July 25: Sunnis in the Iraqi city of Mosul on Friday slammed the heavy-handed US tactics used here that led to the deaths of Saddam Hussein’s two sons, and expressed...
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Muslims’ entry into holy site restricted: Palestinian boy shot dead
 TEL AVIV, July 25: Israeli police on Friday restricted access for Muslims to the Haram al Sharif, in occupied Al Quds, fearing protests by Palestinians against a decision to allow visits...
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Afghans hide Quran from US troops
KABUL, July 25: Scared Afghans in the southern province of Kandahar hid holy Quran and other religious items before United States troops searched their village, afraid the Americans would kill them...
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4.58m AIDS cases in India, says official
NEW DELHI, July 25: India announced a sharp rise in its number of HIV/AIDS cases Friday after the United Nations warned New Delhi it must ramp up efforts to fight the...
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India denies visa to Amnesty chief
NEW DELHI, July 25: The Indian government has denied a visa to the secretary general of human rights group Amnesty International, Irene Khan Zubeida, it was reported on Friday....
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Saddam was in Baghdad in mid-April: former guard
LONDON, July 25: Saddam Hussein and his two sons did not leave Baghdad until mid-April, when US tanks were already in the heart of the city, a former bodyguard of Uday,...
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Media divided over pictures
PARIS, July 25: Editors of European newspapers were split on Friday over whether to publish gruesome pictures of Saddam’s dead sons, Uday and Qusay Hussein, and if so whether to use...
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Colonel jailed for Chechen’s murder
ROSTOV-ON-DON (Russia), July 25: A court jailed a Russian army colonel for 10 years on Friday for the murder of a young Chechen woman in a high-profile case seen as a...
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France to honour Bourguiba
PARIS, July 25: Habib Bourguiba, the father of Tunisian independence, is to be honoured by France, three years after his death on April 6, 2000, at the age of 96 and...
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Pilot held after veering near Bush motorcade
PHILADELPHIA, July 25: A man piloting a small plane that veered too close to US President George Bush’s motorcade on Thursday was detained by federal agents after F-16 fighters and a...
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Bush orders deployment of US ships near Liberian coast
WASHINGTON, July 25: US President George Bush on Friday ordered military ships to the Liberian coast to back the eventual deployment of West African peacekeepers, the White House said in a...
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