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| October 21, 2003 | Tuesday | Sha'aban 24, 1424 |
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Bush calls for early talks with N. Korea: Pyongyang test-fires missile
BANGKOK, Oct 20: US President George Bush, in a policy shift to re-energize talks with North Korea, joined his South Korean counterpart on Monday in calling for a new round as... 
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Diana letter reignites conspiracy theories
LONDON, Oct 20: Months before she lost her life in a road crash, Britain’s Princess Diana claimed in a letter there was a plot to kill her in a car “accident”,...
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Bush tells Mahathir remarks were wrong
BANGKOK, Oct 20: US President George W. Bush pulled Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad aside on Monday and told him that his controversial remarks about Jews were “wrong and divisive,” a...
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Blair is ‘100pc’ fit: official
LONDON, Oct 20: British Prime Minister Tony Blair is “100 per cent recovered” a day after receiving hospital treatment for a heart problem, and faces a busy schedule this week, his...
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Nobel prize ridicules Islam, say scholars
TEHRAN, Oct 20: A group of ulema and theology students from Iran’s theology centre of Qom have hit out at the Nobel Peace Prize win of women’s rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi...
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Egyptian twin improving, say doctors
DALLAS, Oct 20: One of the formerly conjoined Egyptian twin boys who underwent marathon surgery in Texas USA, a week ago to separate them was taken off the ventilator on Sunday...
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German crosses Gobi on foot
BEIJING, Oct 20: Seven years after he almost died in his first attempt to cross the heartland of the Gobi Desert, German explorer Bruno Baumann on Monday completed the first solo...
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Cancun spawns flurry of one-on-one trade pacts
BANGKOK: What is a bane for the WTO looks like turning into a boon for airlines and hoteliers....
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Arabophobia gets a new lease of life: Osama, Saddam are latest in line
BAGHDAD: First, they tried to dismiss Iraqi resistance as the work of “Saddam loyalists”. Then they sought to blame “outside forces”. Now, as it becomes clear that Iraqis of all sects...
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Italy’s endless immigration conundrum
ROME: Italian Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu has described it as “a terrible tragedy that weighs on the civil consciences of Europe”....
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Tackling the ‘radioactive core’ of Mideast peace
LONDON: I went to the Israeli-Palestinian conference in Jordan in a sceptical frame of mind. I estimated that, as so often in the past, we might succeed in drafting a joint...
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Rise of the ‘mega cities’
LONDON: It used to be the stuff of 2000AD, the comic that introduced the world to Judge Dredd and two vast crime-filled cities, Mega City One and East Meg One....
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