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World’s fastest virus infects millions of computers
WASHINGTON, Aug 22: A new mass computer worm that attempts to download files from the Internet and potentially leave computers vulnerable to further attack is being described by experts as the... 
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France rejects US call for sending troops to Iraq
PARIS, Aug 22: France on Friday dismissed a US call for more nations to send soldiers to back up its troops in Iraq, saying an international force should instead be sent...
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UK detains ex-Iran envoy over Argentine blast
LONDON, Aug 22: A British court on Friday ordered Iran’s former ambassador to Argentina to remain in custody while he faces possible extradition for the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires...
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Canberra played up WMD issue: official
CANBERRA, Aug 22: Australian Prime Minister John Howard’s office exaggerated intelligence reports on the threat posed by Iraq to justify going along with Washington in the invasion of Iraq, a former...
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Nepal party opposes deal with Maoists
KATHMANDU, Aug 22: The leader of Nepal’s largest party has warned that he will lobby for an end to the constitutional monarchy if Maoist rebels and the government make a pact...
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9 Russian soldiers killed in Chechnya
MOSCOW, Aug 22: Nine Russian soldiers were killed near the Chechen capital of Grozny on Thursday when a remote-controlled bomb exploded close to their vehicle....
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UN spurned US offer for security: diplomat
BAGHDAD, Aug 22: The debate over responsibility for the breach of security that enabled the devastating bombing of the United Nations’s Baghdad headquarters intensified on Friday with claims that a UN...
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Suspicion falls on guards at UN bldg
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 22: US investigators probing the suicide bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad are looking into the possibility that the perpetrators were assisted by Iraqi security guards employed...
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Paris ignores Tamil Tigers meeting
PARIS, Aug 22: In what some political observers are characterizing as an about-face, the French foreign affairs ministry says that its role with regard to the organization in Paris of a...
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Clash leaves 3 Kurds, 2 Turk troops dead
ANKARA, Aug 22: Three Kurdish guerrillas and two Turkish soldiers were killed on Friday during a fierce gun battle in Turkey’s troubled southeast....
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Pro-Saddam feeling high in Tikrit: paper
PARIS, Aug 22: “We are all sons of Saddam,” insists Usam Hamid, a longtime resident of Tikrit, in referring to Uday and Qusay, the two sons of the former Iraqi head...
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10-minute strike in Chittagong
DHAKA, Aug 22: Several thousand people, including businessmen observed a token 10-minute strike in the country’s port city of Chittagong on Thursday, protesting deteriorating law and order in general and violent...
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France lost $4 billion due to heatwave, says minister
PARIS, Aug 22: The French government, struggling to cope with the aftermath of a heatwave that may have killed 10,000 people, was on Friday sent reeling again when Agriculture Minister Herve...
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Turkish FM favours deployment
ANKARA, Aug 22: Turkey’s Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul on Friday spoke out in favour of sending Turkish troops to Iraq to serve in an international security force as the country’s civilian...
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US looks to UN for an exit strategy
UNITED NATIONS: When the United States launched its attack on Iraq last March, it did so in clear violation of the UN charter and in open defiance of a world body...
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Middle East peace hopes wrecked in tit for tat
WASHINGTON: Two months ago, as the US national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, was making her debut as the Bush administration’s point person on the Middle East, an Israeli lawyer visited Washington....
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GM food is safe: Nobel laureate
ALPBACH (Austria): Genetically modified crops pose no danger to humans, British Nobel prize winner Timothy Hunt said at a European technology forum taking place in Austria....
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Chechens dig for black gold in ruins of Grozny
GROZNY: Deep in the subsoil of Chechnya’s war-wrecked capital Grozny lies a resource that has enabled hundreds of the city’s residents to earn a respectable living despite the misery and tribulations...
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