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ME peace no more a priority for Bush
LONDON: Preoccupied by Iraq and next year’s US presidential election, the Bush administration appears to have consigned the Middle East conflict to the diplomatic back-burner, loosening most constraints on Israel.... 
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Granada again resonates with call to prayer
MADRID/GRANADA: More than five centuries after the Muslims were expelled from Spain, the call to prayer is again echoing from a minaret in Granada....
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WB asks poor countries to give up regulations
WASHINGTON: In an effort to convince developing countries to adopt further deregulation of their economies, the World Bank said on Tuesday its research found that countries with the least regulation have...
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Jews hold sway over US policy: scholar
BEIRUT: A leading scholar on Arab culture has said that Zionists are influencing the United States to wage war against the Arab world with the intentions of colonizing the Middle East....
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Scientists to probe life on Mars
LONDON: Scottish scientists are trying to develop a sophisticated technology to detect whether there is life on Mars and how it developed on Earth....
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Arnold for president? Don’t rule it out
WASHINGTON: Arnold for president?It would be impossible now. But in the new Washington — where the unthinkable occasionally becomes the commonplace...
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AIDS may hit population growth: UN
UNITED NATIONS: The spread of AIDS among adolescents may significantly slow the growth of the world’s population, a United Nations report warned on Wednesday....
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Move to make Iraq repay funds rejected: US House panel okays $87bn request
WASHINGTON, Oct 9: Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Thursday rebuffed attempts to make Iraq repay funds for its reconstruction as they pushed President George Bush’s 87 billion dollars...
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Iran will try to avert showdown: Bolton
LONDON, Oct 9: A top US official predicted on Thursday that Iran would show some cooperation to prevent a showdown over an Oct 31 deadline, but not enough to dispel international...
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Sikkim issue not resolved: China
NEW DELHI, Oct 9: A day after sending the Indian establishment into raptures by removing Sikkim from its list of independent countries that adorned Beijing’s official website, China clarified on Thursday...
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US court urged to act on Guantanamo
WASHINGTON, Oct 9: A group of former US federal judges, diplomats, military officials and human rights advocates urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to review the case of detainees held without...
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US missiles in Europe to deter Tehran: paper
BERLIN, Oct 9: The US government is considering stationing defensive missiles in a number of European countries against a potential attack from Iran, Germany’s Sueddeutsche newspaper reported in an article to...
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Council, US still at odds over Turks
BAGHDAD, Oct 9: Iraq’s Governing Council and the US administration failed on Thursday to resolve their most serious dispute to date, over plans to deploy Turkish troops to help stabilize the...
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Democrats seek release of secret report
WASHINGTON, Oct 9: Some 30 Democratic lawmakers on Thursday demanded the immediate release of a confidential Pentagon report said to be highly critical of the United States’ administration of Iraq....
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Muslim town in Lanka under curfew
COLOMBO, Oct 9: Police clamped a dusk-to-dawn curfew on a Muslim town in northeastern Sri Lanka on Thursday to prevent an escalation of clashes between minority Muslims and Tamils, officials said....
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Lankan FM for top UN job
COLOMBO, Oct 9: Sri Lanka’s cabinet has formally nominated Foreign Minister Tyronne Fernando as a candidate to replace the UN Secretary General, a government spokesman said on Thursday. Prime Minister Ranil...
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Nato tests readiness for crisis anywhere in the world
COLORADO SPRINGS, Oct 9: Defense ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) on Wednesday tested their readiness for crisis, debating steps the Cold War alliance must take to send a...
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Israel to deploy reserves in W. Bank
TEL AVIV, Oct 9: Four Israeli army reserve units are to be deployed to the West Bank and Gaza Strip from Oct 22 as part of a host of security measures...
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