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Fragile ME peace moves hits snags: Arafat back in forefront
RAMALLAH: The seeming collapse of the peace road map has brought Yasser Arafat back to centre stage even though he was never quite outmanoeuvred by Israel and the United States.... 
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Foreign soldiers, money short for Iraq duty
WASHINGTON: Soldiers aren’t the only foreign contribution in short supply for the US effort in Iraq. So is money....
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Small EU states prepare for new constitution
PRAGUE: Small EU states and members-in-waiting are making battle plans ahead of a meeting in Rome in October where a contentious constitution for the bigger, 25-member bloc is due to be...
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Fraudulent websites earning millions
LONDON: Sophisticated gangs are setting up fake websites that mimic well-established companies and persuading those who visit them to part with credit card details and other valuable financial information....
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Purge in Iraq to drive educated abroad
BAGHDAD: Tarik al-Kubaisy, vice-president of the Iraqi Society of Psychiatrists, is a worried man. It’s not just that the queue of patients suffering from severe stress disorders in Iraq’s war-torn society...
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Asean to push for single market
PHNOM PENH: Southeast Asian trade ministers are to meet in Cambodia this week to speed up the creation of a regional single market and review efforts for free-trade agreements (FTAs) with...
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Lankans celebrate peace after conflict
KATARAGAMA (Sri Lanka): Peace means Kataragama, Sri Lanka’s six-headed God of War, is busier than ever....
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Libya agrees to pay compensation: UTA bombing
LONDON, Aug 31: Libya has agreed to a compensation deal with the relatives of those killed in the bombing of a French airliner over Niger in 1989, Tripoli’s London ambassador Mohammed...
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France asks for CDC experts
PARIS, Aug 31: Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin has decided to ask the US government to send to France some of America’s leading specialists on heat waves, among them Michael McGeehin, director...
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Osama has secret links to officials, says book
NEW YORK, Aug 31: A top aide to Osama bin Laden told CIA agents in a drug-induced confession about secret connections between the Al Qaeda leader and top officials in Saudi...
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2 Kashmiri militants killed in New Delhi
NEW DELHI, Aug 31: Police in New Delhi claimed on Sunday that they had killed two militants from a Pakistan-based Kashmiri rebel group....
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Israel threatens to invade Gaza
AL QUDS, Aug 31: Israel’s defence minister on Sunday raised the spectre of an Israeli invasion in the Gaza Strip, where Palestinian militants already face a deadly air campaign....
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13 killed, 78 injured in Taipei blaze
TAIPEI, Aug 31: At least 13 people were killed and 78 others injured on Sunday when fire swept through a residential building in suburban Taipei, firefighters said....
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Floods kill 10 in Orissa
CALCUTTA, Aug 31: Authorities have called in army reinforcements in the Indian coastal state of Orissa after floods caused by heavy monsoon rains killed 10 people and cut off hundreds of...
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US soldier drowns
BAGHDAD, Aug 31: An American soldier drowned in Iraq and two others suffered slight injuries when the vehicle they were travelling in fell into a canal, the army said here on...
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BD private banks to get govt deposits
DHAKA, Aug 31: The government of Bangladesh announced on Saturday the virtual end to the state-owned banks’ monopoly over the deposit of state corporate and development funds and utility bills, major...
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