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US, Japan, France begin interdiction exercise
WASHINGTON, Sept 12: The United States, Australia, Japan and France began on Friday the first maritime exercise aimed at intercepting ships suspected of carrying weapons of mass destruction, the Pentagon said.... 
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UN can’t be given blanket authority in Iraq: Powell
WASHINGTON, Sept 12: Giving the United Nations overall power in Iraq and shunting aside the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) would be unrealistic and impractical, US Secretary of State Colin Powell...
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Iraqis should get power: France
PARIS, Sept 12: France on Friday prescribed an early transfer of power from the US-led occupation, general elections early next year and an international conference on reconstruction as conditions for supporting...
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LTTE boycotts aid meeting
COLOMBO, Sept 12: International aid donors pledged to spend more than 4.5 billion dollars to rebuild Sri Lanka despite a boycott by the Tamil Tigers, a top Japanese envoy said here...
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Mumbai blasts suspect shot dead
MUMBAI, Sept 12: Police on Friday shot dead the suspected mastermind of last month’s twin car bomb blasts that killed 52 people and left 150 injured in India’s commercial hub of...
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New Delhi unlikely to send troops
NEW DELHI, Sept 12: India said on Friday that a new US-inspired draft resolution on Iraq left much “to be desired” and there was “nothing today” that would convince New Delhi...
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FM’s death: polls unclear about impact on Sweden’s vote
STOCKHOLM, Sept 12: Swedes were left guessing on Friday whether the killing of foreign minister Anna Lindh would influence their country’s referendum on adopting the euro, and reverse a trend which...
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Israel offers to develop latest sub for India
NEW DELHI, Sept 12: Israel has offered to enter a partnership with India in the development of a state-of-the-art submarine, it was reported on Friday....
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Al Jazeera airs tape of Sept 11 ‘hijacker’
DUBAI, Sept 12: The Al Jazeera network on Friday aired a new videotape of a man it said was one of the Sept 11 hijackers, reading his will and saying it...
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CIA says voice on tape was that of Osama
WASHINGTON, Sept 12: CIA analysts have concluded that a voice on a videotape aired this week by the Al Jazeera television news station was “probably” that of Al Qaeda leader Osama...
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Inspectors must finish job: IAEA
VIENNA, Sept 12: The head of the UM nuclear watchdog said on Friday he wanted his inspectors to return to Iraq to verify whether Saddam Hussein had renewed his nuclear weapons...
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Indian farmers sue govt over landmines
JODHPUR, Sept 12: Indian farmers living near the heavily-mined western desert border with Pakistan said on Friday that they were suing the state government for failing to compensate them adequately for...
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Curfew in Kathmandu
KATHMANDU, Sept 12: Nepal’s government on Friday imposed a night-time curfew in the capital Kathmandu after two people were shot dead by Maoist rebels who also set off a bomb....
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Cheney-led group faces ‘oil war’ charge
STOCKHOLM: As the Bush administration begins to tacitly acknowledge its overreach in Iraq, a conservative judicial watchdog group is pursuing Vice President Dick Cheney, with the Middle Eastern nation figuring prominently...
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UN, US heading for another showdown: Resolution on Iraq
UNITED NATIONS: The United States and the United Nations are heading for another possible showdown over who should hold political and military power in an increasingly unstable Iraq....
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NGOs seek room for South
UNITED NATIONS: Eminent intellectuals and leading civil society advocates who closely work with the United Nations are demanding that any move to reform the Security Council must include the emerging powers...
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Iraq invasion gave new life to Al Qaeda
WASHINGTON: Two years after President George W. Bush vowed to take the war to the terrorists who carried out the Sept 11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, the fight...
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Reforms in Gulf muted despite oil bonanza
DUBAI: The coffers of Gulf Arab states brim with petrodollars, but policymakers seem unable to take the political risk of bold reform to shake up their ailing economies....
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