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Ceasefire holding More hope, less despair in ME
AL QUDS: When Palestinian militant organizations declared a unilateral truce one month ago, few Israelis and Palestinians gave it much chance of succeeding.... 
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Iraq chaos saves Opec
LONDON: The failure to rebuild Iraq’s oil industry will probably save other Opec countries from painful production cuts this year, confounding earlier fears of a crisis in the cartel from a...
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No war, but little peace for Sri Lanka’s east
BATTICALOA (Sri Lanka): Guesthouse owner K. Luxman says it has been 15 years at least since the fish in Batticaloa’s famous lagoon came out to sing....
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German pollster fooled
HAMBURG: A German polling organization that reckoned half of all Germans were unable to identify Gerhard Schroeder as the nation’s chancellor has taken it all back: it seems many of the...
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Kennedy’s wartime swim to be re-enacted
HONIARA: Sixty years after a young John F. Kennedy swam for his life in the Solomons, five people undeterred by a new conflict in the Pacific islands will on Sunday recreate...
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Is Iran sick of being a nuclear ‘have-not’?
VIENNA: There are many ways to divide the world. But when it comes to military might, we divide it between those who have nuclear weapons and those who don’t....
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Reforms in Saudi Arabia fail to placate US neo-conservatives
RIYADH: With the release of the US Congressional Committee report on 9/11, Saudi-US relations are once again under severe strain, with some Congress members and “sources”, implicating the Saudi government and...
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US troops brought in to help Afghans: Operation near Pakistan border
BAGRAM AIR BASE, July 29: Three companies of US paratroops have been airlifted into the mountains of southeastern Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan, as part of an ongoing combat mission...
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Forest fires claims five lives in France
SAINTE-MAXIME (France) July 29: Firefighters on Tuesday struggled to contain fast-moving fires that have killed five people and ravaged large areas of woodland in southern France, as President Jacques Chirac promised...
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Saddam tape vows revenge for deaths of sons
DUBAI, July 29: An audiotape purportedly from former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein aired on Al Arabiya television on Tuesday said his two sons, Uday and Qusay, had died as martyrs for...
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Palestinians condemn Sharon stand on fence
GAZA CITY, July 29: Palestinian information minister Nabil Amr dismissed as “entirely negative” Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s comments at a press conference on Tuesday in Washington with US President George...
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US warns of plane attacks by Al Qaeda
WASHINGTON, July 29: The US Department of Homeland Security has warned the airline industry of possible suicide hijackings and bombings by the Al Qaeda network for the rest of the summer....
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Saddam be killed, says Armitage
WASHINGTON, July 29: US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said on Tuesday that ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein should be killed without hesitation, if capturing him alive meant risking the...
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Bush rejects Saudi request on 9/11 report
WASHINGTON, July 29: US President George Bush rejected a request by the Saudi government on Tuesday to declassify sections of a Sept 11, 2001, report dealing with Saudi Arabia, saying it...
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Pentagon scraps betting on terror attacks
WASHINGTON, July 29: A Pentagon plan to get information on the Middle East by setting up an online futures market where investors would bet on the probability of war, terrorism and...
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Liberia’s army fights back to retake city from rebels
MONROVIA, July 29: President Charles Taylor’s forces fought back into Liberia’s second city on Tuesday, vowing to oust rebels whose capture of the strategic port marked a major setback for the...
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29 killed in China blast
BEIJING, July 29: A powerful explosion destroyed a firecracker factory in northern China, killing 29 people and injuring more than 100....
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Senators rap Bush govt on Iraq policies
WASHINGTON, July 29: US senators from both parties on Tuesday assailed the Bush administration for not spelling out the costs of rebuilding Iraq, and for focusing on Iraq’s role in “terrorism”...
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