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US starts a broader investigation: Sept 11 attacks
WASHINGTON: The long-awaited report that the joint Congressional Committee on Intelligence released on Thursday represents the fullest examination so far of the US response to the threat posed by Al Qaeda... 
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Nixon ‘ordered Watergate break-in’
LOS ANGELES: US President Richard Nixon personally ordered the Watergate break-in of the Democratic party headquarters, according to a senior aide who was jailed for his part in the affair....
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Climate change as bad as terrorism: expert
LONDON: The UK’s most eminent climate scientist is accusing Tony Blair of failing to stand up to George Bush on the issue of climate change and putting mankind in jeopardy. He...
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Bush’s credibility questioned
WASHINGTON: Shifting stories and new revelations concerning the Bush administration’s prewar allegations about Iraq’s nuclear programme are creating the most serious challenge to President Bush’s credibility since he took office —...
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Reopening of roads a relief to Palestinians
SURDA (West Bank): Hundreds of Palestinians gathered at the Surda military checkpoint near Ramallah on Sunday morning to watch both Palestinian and Israeli bulldozers tear down the mounds of dirt and...
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Philippine mutiny raises more questions than answers
MANILA: Going by past coup attempts in this South-east Asian country, Sunday’s rebellion was shortlived and did not pose a serious threat to the Philippine government. By the day’s end it...
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Entertainer Bob Hope was a US institution
LOS ANGELES: Bob Hope, whose death at age 100 was announced on Monday, was the ultimate comedian, a master of timing who turned the one-liner into an art form and became...
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Clashes erupt over Israeli fence: Five foreigners wounded
ANIN (West Bank), July 28: Five foreign peace activists from the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) were wounded on Monday by the Israeli army during a protest against Israel’s security fence in...
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Four killed, 31 injured in Mumbai bus blast
MUMBAI, July 28: Four people were killed and 31 injured on Monday when a bomb ripped through a bus packed with commuters in Mumbai at evening peak hour....
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Egypt proposes reforms in Arab League
CAIRO, July 28: Egypt unveiled a package of reforms on Monday to strengthen the Arab League, the 58-year-old organization which has been in crisis since the US-led war on Iraq....
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Indian writer denied BD visa
KOLKATA, July 28: Award-winning Bengali-language writer Samaresh Majumdar said on Monday he had been denied a visa to visit Bangladesh because he wrote a novel in which he claimed Indian separatists...
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Saddam on the run, claims US
WASHINGTON, July 28: US officials told reporters on Monday that their troops are tightening the noose around former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and they hope to catch him soon....
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Six Afghan soldiers killed in ambush
KABUL, July 28: Suspected Taliban fighters ambushed and killed six Afghan soldiers in southern Afghanistan following an attack on a passenger jet, officials said on Monday, after a US military warning...
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Liberian rebels seize key port city
MONROVIA, July 28: Liberian rebels on Monday seized the second port city of Buchanan as the war-battered capital Monrovia remained in the grip of fierce combat and west African leaders failed...
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Inquiry into Kelly’s death from 1st
LONDON, July 28: An independent judicial inquiry into the death of David Kelly, the man at the centre of a furore over the way Britain went to war against Iraq, is...
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Blair accused of abusing power
LONDON, July 28: A former British minister who resigned over the invasion on Iraq on Monday launched a new attack on Prime Minister Tony Blair, describing him as an “emperor” and...
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