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Arafat proposes ‘total truce’: Israel rejects suggestion
RAMALLAH, Sept 22: President Yasser Arafat declared a commitment to reaching a total ceasefire with Israel in a letter given to envoys of the peacemaking “Quartet”, Palestinian officials said on Monday.... 
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US, Turkey sign pact on $8.5bn loan
DUBAI, Sept 22: The United States and Turkey on Monday finalised an $8.5 billion loan pact to bolster the Turkish economy and offset costs incurred during the US-led war against Iraq....
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Blair backs EU’s defence plan
LONDON, Sept 22: British Prime Minister Tony Blair has offered his support for a Franco-German plan for a common EU defence policy to run parallel to Nato, English newspapers reported on...
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Missionary’s killer sentenced to death
KolkAta, Sept 22: An Indian court sentenced to death on Monday the ringleader of a Hindu mob that burned an Australian missionary and his two young sons alive, a prosecution lawyer...
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Europe observes ‘car-free day’; poor response in Asia
PARIS, Sept 22: Europeans breathed a bit easier as they cycled, walked or used mass transit to get to work on annual “car-free” day on Monday, but the global push to...
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Israelis recruiting Russian snipers
TEL AVIV, Sept 22: Israel’s army has begun using Russian immigrant soldiers, veterans of fighting in Chechnya, as snipers to guard Jewish settlements in the Palestinian territories, Israeli security sources said...
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Russia to set up base in Kyrghyzstan
MOSCOW, Sept 22: Russia signed a deal on Monday to open its first new military base since the collapse of the Soviet Union, setting it in volatile Central Asia where Moscow...
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Palestinians may become ‘next target’, says Peres
TEL AVIV, Sept 22: If the Palestinians do not stamp out “terrorism”, they would become the next target in the world’s campaign against terror, Peres warned....
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Paris links support with key role for UN: Iraq resolution
NEW YORK, Sept 22: France will not veto any new US resolution on Iraq at the UN Security Council, but will abstain unless the motion includes a prompt transfer of sovereignty...
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Bush taps special envoy as Afghan ambassador
WASHINGTON, Sept 22: US President George W. Bush on Monday tapped his special envoy in Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, to take over as ambassador to oversee an expanded reconstruction programme in the...
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Campbell used Kelly to defeat BBC
LONDON, Sept 22: Explicit diary notes of British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s media chief showed on Monday he had hoped to use a weapons expert to win a furious row with...
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Libyans demand compensation
GENEVA, Sept 22: Some 200 adults and children who lost relatives in the US bombing of Libya in 1986 demonstrated outside the United Nations’ European headquarters on Monday seeking compensation for...
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US refuses visas to kin of Iraqi dead in blast
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22: The United States refused to allow male relatives of five Iraqis killed in the attack against U.N. offices in Baghdad last month attend a memorial service in...
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Largest ice shelf breaks up
WASHINGTON, Sept 22: The largest ice shelf in the Arctic, a solid feature for 3,000 years, has broken up, scientists in the United States and Canada said on Monday....
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US to cut number of high-tech visas
WASHINGTON, Sept 22: The United States is about to cut the number of employment visas it offers to highly qualified foreign workers from 195,000 to 65,000, immigration experts said on Monday....
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Turkey seeks US action on PKK
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22: Turkey is dissatisfied with American responses to its demand for action against Kurdish militants and hopes for firmer answers this week before Ankara decides on sending troops...
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Syria says it is ready to send troops to Iraq
DAMASCUS, Sept 22: Syria has hinted it could send troops to help restore security in Iraq, but only if Washington sets a timetable for pulling out its forces and handing over...
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Bush needs to court, not hector UN: Governing Iraq
UNITED NATIONS: US President George W. Bush will need to show humility with US allies rather than hectoring them this week when he seeks help in rebuilding Iraq and Afghanistan, diplomats...
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Iran opted for N-bomb under Shah: ex-official
PARIS: Akbar Etemad, Iran’s former vice-prime minister, in an interview with daily Le Figaro here has said that Tehran “may very well have a nuclear military capacity”....
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US urged to ‘box’ the French
WASHINGTON: A top US Senate Democrat urged President George W. Bush on Sunday “to outsmart the French” in their opposition to a new UN resolution on Iraq by having the Security...
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