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US troops in fierce clash with protesters: One killed in Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Aug 13: An Iraqi was killed and four people wounded on Wednesday, the US army said, in the first armed clash between US forces and Shias in Baghdad since the... 
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British Airways suspends flights to S. Arabia
LONDON, Aug 13: The British Airways suspended all flights to Saudi Arabia with immediate effect on Wednesday after Britain’s government warned it had received intelligence about a “serious threat” to air...
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US blasted for clearing crew in hotel attack
PARIS, Aug 13: A US military inquiry exonerating a US tank crew for firing on a Baghdad hotel housing journalists, killing two cameramen, was dismissed on Wednesday as a pack of...
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Council rejects three bills sent by Khatami
TEHRAN, Aug 13: Iranian Council have rejected three reform bills put forward by President Mohammad Khatami, slamming reformist hopes of bringing Islamic democracy to Iran, press reports said on Wednesday....
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US arrests three over missile smuggling
WASHINGTON, Aug 13: Three men, including a British citizen, were arrested in New Jersey on Tuesday on suspicion of trying to smuggle surface-to-air missile into the United States....
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Iran won’t let US quiz Al Qaeda suspects
TEHRAN, Aug 13: Iranian President Mohammad Khatami on Wednesday rejected a proposal allowing US investigators to come to Iran to question suspected members of Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network detained...
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Judge given Kelly tape critical of Blair govt
LONDON, Aug 13: A British inquiry into the suspected suicide of a scientist at the centre of a political storm on Wednesday heard a tape recording that appeared to back claims...
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Diana Mosley dies at 93
LONDON, Aug 13: Lady Diana Mosley, the widow of 1930s British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, has died at the age of 93 at her Paris home....
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S.Asians asked to condemn US police shooting
WASHINGTON, Aug 13: A South Asian advocacy group has urged people of Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi origin to join a protest rally in Los Angeles on Friday to protest the recent...
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Fears of another false dawn in India-Pakistan peace drive
ISLAMABAD: Amid words and gestures of goodwill between bitter foes you could be forgiven for thinking lasting peace was about to break out between Pakistan and India....
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Saudis grapple with militancy enigma
LONDON: Saudi Arabia is locked in a high-stakes struggle with militants thriving on discontent with the royal family and its US ally....
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Taiwan suffers as talent goes to China: Brain drain
TAIPEI: Taiwan businesswoman Doris Lu has spent most of the past eight years in southern China managing her family’s speaker manufacturing factory, but she says that does not make her Chinese...
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Study of Bush’s psyche stirs debate
WASHINGTON: A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in “fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of...
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Italians dig deep to reveal forgotten Roman city
POZZUOLI (Italy): Archaeologists are used to rummaging in the dirt for lost treasures, but they rarely have to do it with an entire city weighing down on them....
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BD braces itself for major earthquake
DHAKA: No one knows when it may strike. No one knows what to do when it does. But one thing all Bangladeshis seem to know is that a giant “python” is...
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Human shields face jail in US
WASHINGTON: Anti-war activists who visited Iraq before the US invasion have discovered that they could face up to 12 years in prison and $1m in fines....
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