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US-Saudi ties seen surviving: Congress report impact
DUBAI: Claims that resurfaced in a US Congress report of a Saudi role in the September 11 attacks are unlikely to affect relations which have improved since Riyadh got serious over... 
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Biotech revolution bypasses poorer nations: UN
UNITED NATIONS: The biotechnology revolution — which has been characterized by modern-day advances in agriculture, medicine, industry and the environment — is bypassing most of the world’s poorer nations, according to...
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Conference on Kashmir highlighted peace trends
WASHINGTON: The two-day international conference on Kashmir has ended in Washington without achieving its main objective: reaching out to the Indians and Americans with an appeal to help resolve the 56-year...
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The weakness of Al Qaeda
LONDON: As we head towards the second anniversary of September 11, it may seem eccentric to emphasis how weak the Al Qaeda organization headed by Osama Bin Laden is — indeed,...
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New light on Sahara conflict
MADRID: After decades of warfare, diplomatic wrangling and refugees languishing in desert camps, could a solution finally be at hand to the Western Sahara conflict?...
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Water will be a thorny issue in ME roadmap
AL-DHAHRIYEH (West Bank): The Khabirat family postpone having a bath as they await the next water tanker to replenish their well in parched Palestinian territory under Israeli blockade....
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Japanese troops to be seen differently
TOKYO: Japan took its biggest stride yet from half a century of pacifism on Friday when parliament approved the dispatch of troops to support the US in Iraq....
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Plot to cut BBC’s independence: Chairman accuses government
LONDON, July 27: The war of words between the BBC and the British government heated up Sunday, with the chairman of the public broadcaster alleging a plot to undermine its jealously...
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173 missing in BD, 20 trawlers sink
BARISAL, July 27: At least 173 fishermen were missing on Sunday off Bangladesh’s coast after 20 trawlers sank in rough weather in the Bay of Bengal, as six other people died...
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Liberian rebels reject US calls for pullback
MONROVIA, July 27: Liberian rebels rejected US calls on Sunday to withdraw immediately from the capital Monrovia and said amid fresh heavy fighting that they would stay until foreign peacekeepers arrived....
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4 US soldiers charged with abuse of PoWs
WASHINGTON, July 27: Four US soldiers have been charged with assaulting Iraqi prisoners of war, the US Central Command announced on Sunday....
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Rains disrupt life in India
NEW DELHI, July 27: At least six people were killed in torrential monsoon rains in the western Indian state of Gujarat as the air force rescued marooned people by helicopter, a...
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Niger denies UK claim on uranium deal
LONDON, July 27: The prime minister of Niger has denied claims his nation was involved in trying to sell uranium to Iraq and challenged UK’s Tony Blair to prove otherwise, a...
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Hezbollah vows to kidnap Israelis
BEIRUT: The leader of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah militant group, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, said Sunday more Israelis would be kidnapped if Tel Aviv continued to stall talks on exchanging prisoners with the...
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Veterans mark truce’s 50th anniversary: Korean War
PANMUNJOM, July 27: Veterans and dignitaries gathered at South Korea’s Demilitarized Zone with the North on Sunday to remember those who did not live to see the armistice that ended Korean...
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Quakes shake BD cities, 50 injured
DHAKA, July 27: A series of tremors shook Chittagong and adjoining districts in a span of 15 hours on Sunday, leaving more than 50 people injured and some under-construction buildings and...
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Iranian judges forced to take Nastaliq lessons
TEHRAN, July 27: Iranian judges are being forced to take calligraphy lessons to make their verdicts more readable, the head of Iran’s supreme calligraphy council, Hasan Gholampour told the Entekhab daily...
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PA abolishes courts
GAZA CITY, July 27: Palestinian Justice Minister Abdelkarim Abu Saleh on Sunday abolished the state security courts, the special military tribunals which have been accused of passing arbitrary verdicts....
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Castro blasts EU
SANTIAGO DE CUBA, July 27: Cuban President Fidel Castro delivered a blistering broadside at the EU on Saturday in a speech on the spot where he launched the Cuban Revolution 50...
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Wolfowitz defends US acting on murky data
WASHINGTON, July 27: US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz on Sunday defended the invasion of Iraq as an example of how the United States had to be prepared to act on...
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