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Clashes in Ramallah as Israelis raid town: Arafat seeks international help
RAMALLAH, Oct 21: Israeli forces on Tuesday raided the West Bank city where Yasser Arafat is based, encircled a mosque and fired weapons and teargas to disperse hundreds of stone-throwers, witnesses... 
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Search by dogs angers Iraqi govt employees
BAGHDAD, Oct 21: US soldiers on Tuesday fired shots in the air to disperse Iraqi government employees who were demonstrating against the use of sniffer dogs in searches at the entrance...
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Film on partition
MUMBAI, Oct 21: India’s film industry is once again bringing to the big screen the horrors of the partition with the release later this month of “Pinjar” (Skeleton), starring popular actress...
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28 US soldiers fail to return to Iraq
WASHINGTON, Oct 21: At least 28 soldiers have failed to report for flights back to Iraq after two weeks of leave in the United States or to call ahead with an...
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Bush hints at vetoing bill over loan row
WASHINGTON, Oct 21: The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto an 87 billion dollars bill for military operations and reconstruction in Iraq if Congress keeps a Senate-passed provision to convert...
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Chirac favours ban on scarf
VALENCIENNES, Oct 21: French President Jacques Chirac stepped into the heated debate over Islam and religious insignia on Tuesday, hinting that he will support a law banning the wearing of headscarves...
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US senator seeks audit of contracts
WASHINGTON, Oct 21: A leading Democratic senator said on Tuesday he had asked the General Accounting Office, the US Congress’s investigative arm, to audit billions of dollars in contracts awarded to...
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Pentagon to probe general’s comments
WASHINGTON, Oct 21: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday the Pentagon would launch an internal investigation into comments about Islam made by a senior military intelligence official....
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India, Lanka to begin talks on defence ties
NEW DELHI, Oct 21: India and Sri Lanka announced on Tuesday they would begin negotiations to firm up ties in the military sector through a defence cooperation programme....
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US policies spawn terrorism: Indonesians
JAKARTA, Oct 21: When US President George Bush meets Indonesia’s leading Muslim figures on Wednesday, they will tell him US policies in the Middle East are one of the root causes...
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Quran’s vision is inclusive, says Aga Khan
LONDON, Oct 21: The Aga Khan, Imam of the Ismaili Muslims, told distinguished audiences of students, international scholars, diplomats and civic dignitaries that “freedom of interpretation is a generosity which the...
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No progress without freedom, says Arab report
WASHINGTON, Oct 21: Knowledge flourishes in a climate of freedom, not in restrictions, observes a report that probes the causes of under-development in the Arab and Muslim worlds....
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Bush softens rhetoric on North Korea
BANGKOK: Nothing would please US President George W. Bush more than if North Korea’s Kim Jong-il were to stick to spreading manure rather than weapons of mass destruction....
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EU’s defence paradigm unnerves US
BRUSSELS: Almost two years after they launched a single currency to rival the US dollar, European Union governments look set to challenge America’s dominance in another vital area: defence. EU plans...
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Mahathir hit a raw nerve
SYDNEY: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s contention that Jews “rule this world by proxy” getting “others to fight and die for them” has cannoned down the world’s corridors of power....
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An insight into Saddam’s rule
BEIRUT: Most works on Iraq and its deposed president are criticized because they present the foreign perspective of the writers. That is not true of Lebanese journalist Hatem Saghieh’s book, one...
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