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13 killed in N. Iraq as Kurds fight Turkmen
KIRKUK, Aug 23: Three Turkmen were shot dead by police in Iraq’s northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Saturday after they opened fire on a police building during a demonstration, Governor... 
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US initiates moves to raise issue at UN: Tehran’s nuclear plan
WASHINGTON, Aug 23: The United States, convinced Iran is deceiving the world about its nuclear ambitions, has launched a campaign to bring the issue before the UN Security Council, including a...
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Chandrika unhappy with Norway, Japan
COLOMBO, Aug 23: Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga’s party on Saturday launched a scathing attack against Norway and Japan over her country’s peace bid and accused her cohabitation government of abdicating...
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Iran cuts ties with Argentina
TEHRAN, Aug 23: Iran is cutting its cultural and economic ties with Argentina because of the arrest in Britain of a former ambassador to Argentina in connection with a 1994 bombing...
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Arafat under pressure to ‘abdicate’?
PARIS, Aug 23: French diplomats familiar with France’s evolving Middle East policy say that “important changes” are in the air, changes that should affect “the highest levels” of the Palestinian Authority,...
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Millions of computers infected in China
BEIJING, Aug 23: Millions of computers across China were feared infected by the Sobig.F Internet worm on Saturday, as the virus’s rampage through the United States appeared to slow....
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21 die as rocket explodes in Brazil
BRASILIA, Aug 23: A Brazilian rocket exploded on Friday and killed 21 people after an engine ignited by mistake days before a planned liftoff from a jungle launch site....
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Russia signals flexibility over force
MOSCOW, Aug 23: A senior Moscow official suggested on Saturday that Russia was willing to show flexibility over a new international stabilisation force in Iraq, news agency Itar-Tass reported....
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US not averse to outside help for N. Korea
WASHINGTON, Aug 23: The United States signalled on Friday it was not ruling out the idea that other nations could offer North Korea incentives to halt its nuclear programme, but said...
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Film actors, workers on strike in BD
DHAKA, Aug 23: Bangladesh’s film industry was paralysed when film artistes, directors, editors and technicians went on an indefinite strike on Saturday in protest against a ban on a film actress...
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Collateral damage to Bush’s plans: War comes home
WASHINGTON: Two bombs set off in the Middle East reverberated through political America this week, causing collateral damage to the political plans of President George W. Bush....
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China expresses reservations over interdiction plan
BEIJING: North Korea won’t be allowed to use China to evade international sanctions designed to prevent it from exporting weapons of mass destruction, a senior Chinese arms control official said on...
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BJP agenda undercut by opposition to cow bill
NEW DELHI: The failure by India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to muster support from its allies for a controversial bill aimed at a nationwide ban on the slaughter of cows...
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Drought grips Danube
ZAGREB: Exactly a year after torrential flooding burst the river banks of central Europe and left a legacy of damage, the great heatwave of 2003 is hampering shipping, endangering unique wetlands...
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Jewish lobby attacks book about West Bank boy
LONDON: Jewish pressure groups are calling on a publisher to withdraw a children’s book about a Palestinian boy growing up amid the intifada on the West Bank. A Little Piece of...
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Old Bridge in Mostar almost ready
MOSTAR: Almost ten years after it was destroyed during the 1992-1995 Bosnia-Herzegovina conflict, the famous Old Bridge in the southern city of Mostar is going through the final phase of its...
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