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Iraq to allow 100pc foreign ownership: Investment in all sectors except oil
DUBAI, Sept 21: US-controlled Iraq told the world’s leading financiers on Sunday it would throw its economy open to foreign investors in every industry but oil.... 
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Afghanistan to disarm 100,000 militiamen
KABUL, Sept 21: The disarmament of some 100,000 Afghan militiamen could start as early as next month following a long-delayed reshuffle of the defence ministry, United Nations officials said on Sunday....
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Latvians vote to join EU
RIGA, Sept 21: Leaders of the former Soviet republic of Latvia on Sunday hailed its return to Europe, after a vote that sealed the reunification of eastern and western Europe under...
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Schroeder Heading for defeat in Bavaria
MUNICH, Sept 21: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democrats face their third major defeat this year on Sunday in a state election that Bavarian premier Edmund Stoiber is forecast to win...
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Floods from India kill 11 in BD
DHAKA, Sept 21: Manmade floods devoured scores of villages in Bangladesh at the weekend, leaving at least 11 people dead and many more missing, officials said on Sunday....
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Unprecedented rioting in Maldives
COLOMBO, Sept 21: Five security men were arrested in the tiny Indian Ocean atoll nation of the Maldives on Sunday after the deaths of two prisoners sparked unprecedented rioting in the...
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Yemen expels 1000 Arabs
RIYADH, Sept 21: Yemen has expelled over 1,000 Arab and other foreigners from the country in recent days, a Ministry of Interior information revealed....
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$20m fund for Palestinians from IDB
DUBAI, Sept 21: The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) launched on Sunday a 20-million-dollar fund to help Palestinians adversely affected by a barrier Israel is building around the West Bank....
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Professor sues Bush’s appointee
WASHINGTON, Sept 21: A University of Oregon sociology professor is claiming defamation and seeking $1.1 million from the authors of a column published in the New York Post last year that...
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South Asian peace process stumbling, not yet dead
NEW DELHI: A peace process between India and Pakistan is stumbling badly, but analysts say it is too early to declare it dead despite fresh violence in disputed Kashmir....
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China takes centre stage at G7 moot
DUBAI: This weekend’s G7 meeting will reverberate through currency markets, but if it earns a place in the financial history books it will be for another reason: China’s arrival at the...
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Terrorists have basic rights: UK official
LONDON: The UK’S attorney general, Lord Goldsmith, has accused democratic governments which fail to accord basic legal rights to terror suspects of furthering the goals of terrorists....
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Reforms by Berlusconi make MPs suspicious
ROME: Silvio Berlusconi’s government has proposed a sweeping reform of the Italian constitution, prompting some opposition MPs to claim he is grabbing “monarchical” powers for himself....
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Fresh water crisis in ME: official
DUBAI: The water shortage problem is close to crisis levels in most countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, a senior World Bank official warned on Sunday....
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WB suggests services by NGOs
DHAKA: The World Bank, in launching its World Development Report (WDR) 2004, has recommended that the government contract out key services to private contractors in the form of NGOs to keep...
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The professor who is not fooled by Bush’s words
LONDON: The letters that Paul Krugman receives these days have to be picked up with tongs, and his employer pays someone to delete the death threats from his email inbox. This...
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