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Anti-globalists to mark class war at WTO moot
CANCUN (Mexico): A motley band of anti-globalization activists ranging from Italian anarchists to straw-hatted Mexican peasants is heading for a showdown in the sun in Cancun, a brash symbol of the... 
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US to offer election timeframe: UN resolution on Iraq
UNITED NATIONS: The United States is trying to win support for a multinational peacekeeping force in Iraq by pledging a timetable for elections and the return of sovereignty to the Iraqi...
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Anti-Russian feeling keeps filling Chechen ranks
GROZNY: After four years of brutal guerrilla warfare in Russia’s separatist republic of Chechnya, the number of rebels there has stubbornly remained the same a potent reminder that the Kremlin’s...
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New breed of Indian bombers are graduates
NEW DELHI: Investigations into a string of blasts in Mumbai in recent months show that the new breed of bombers in India are graduates, doctors and software experts with similar profiles...
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US may be behind terror acts: Sadr
CAIRO: The US-led forces could be behind “some terror acts” perpetrated in Iraq in order to spread chaos to justify occupation, anti-US firebrand Shia leader Moqtada Sadr charged in press comments...
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Iran weighs options against Britain
TEHRAN: Iran must be careful in pressing its dispute with Britain over the arrest of a former Iranian diplomat against a backdrop of international calls led by Washington and London that...
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China assures UN of ratifying CTBT soon
VIENNA, Sept 4: China on Thursday reassured a UN conference here that it hoped to ratify a key nuclear test ban treaty soon, saying the matter had become urgent in the...
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Malaysia procures ‘anti-terror’ chip
CYBERJAYA (Malaysia), Sept 4: Malaysia has bought the rights from a Japanese firm to the world’s smallest microchip that can be embedded in everything from currencies to human bodies and will...
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BD, US sign immunity accord
DHAKA, Sept 4: Dhaka and Washington have signed an agreement under which no American soldiers and officers guilty of any criminal offences could be tried in Bangladesh or sent to the...
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Iran, Syria not doing enough: Rumsfeld
BAGHDAD, Sept 4: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday accused Syria and Iran of not doing enough to stop an influx of anti-American fighters into Iraq....
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Hundreds held in Nepal before rally
KATHMANDU, Sept 4: Nepalese police charged demonstrators with batons and rounded up hundreds of political activists as they stopped the kingdom’s main parties from carrying out a demonstration banned after Maoist...
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No one is safe, warns judge: Inquiry into Kelly’s death
LONDON, Sept 4: A senior British judge ended the first stage of his inquiry into the suicide of Iraq weapons expert David Kelly on Thursday with a warning that no party...
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Powell outwitted Pentagon: daily
WASHINGTON, Sept 4: The Washington Post said in a report on Thursday that US Secretary of State Colin Powell and the Joint Chiefs of Staff had conspired to press President George...
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Britain’s war case in tatters: press
LONDON, Sept 4: Britain’s case for invasion of Iraq is “in tatters” following evidence from a British former defence official to the inquiry into the suicide of weapons expert David Kelly,...
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1.2 tons of explosives found
KIRKUK, Sept 4: Kurdish security forces have found a total of 1.2 tons of explosives packed in three rubbish skips, one left on a key bridge in the northern oil capital...
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Indian police edgy as groups plan protests against Sharon
NEW DELHI, Sept 4: Police will be pulling out all stops to guard Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon when he visits India next week, officials said on Thursday, as political groups...
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US Muslims urged to vote against Bush
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 4: Leaders of the seven-million American Muslims have urged the community to deliver a bloc vote against President George W. Bush in next year’s presidential elections. The American...
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Britain allows embassy staff to leave Iran
LONDON, Sept 4: The British Foreign Office authorised on Thursday the voluntary departure of non-essential members of staff and dependants at the embassy in Tehran amid a souring of relations between...
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