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Retreat from Iraq is no option
LONDON: Britain is braced for George W. Bush’s arrival. London police leave has been cancelled, and the Stop the War Coalition is planning demonstrations and civil disobedience to ‘unwelcome’ the President.... 
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Why has politics been outsourced to NGOs?
THE Universal Declaration of Human Rights that came in the wake of the liberation of Europe from Nazism was enshrined as the pivot of the UN system. In democracies, mainstream political...
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Peace prize brings Mideast conflict to Australia
SYDNEY: The row over the awarding of the 2003 Sydney Peace Prize to Palestinian Hanan Ashrawi has brought to Australia a conflict that some migrants left the Middle East to get...
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Bewildering array of issues at South Pole
AUCKLAND: As the summer sun rises over bleak and lonely Antarctica in the next couple of weeks a bewildering array of people, inspired by causes as diverse as depression and peace...
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A mix of autocracy and democracy in Russia
MOSCOW: The faces of Stalin, Lenin, Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the KGB, and Ivan the Terrible now confront Muscovites on their daily journey to work. They are not on monuments...
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US sues Greenpeace
LOS ANGELES: Greenpeace is being taken to court by the US government because of its action against the illegal importation of mahogany. Its lawyers says it is the first time an...
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Liberia set to curb flow of diamonds
Sun City (South Africa): War-ravaged but diamond-rich Liberia appears eager to become party to the Kimberley Process, an international system to outlaw the trade in illicit diamonds....
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Germans unnerved by political leaders’ reform plans
BERLIN: From the outside, Germany looks like a worker’s paradise with the longest holidays, some of highest pay scales in the world and a comprehensive welfare system....
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French Muslims fighting in Iraq, says magistrate
PARIS, Nov 2: Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere, France’s principal anti-terrorism magistrate has said in an article in Sunday’s issue of The New York Times that “several dozen” young Frenchmen of Muslim origin...
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Proposal to share power welcomed in Sri Lanka: Muslims to form own plan
JAFFNA, Nov 2: Tired of a 20-year ethnic war that killed 64,000 people, Sri Lankans on Sunday welcomed a watershed power-sharing proposal by Tamil Tiger rebels that could revive stalled peace...
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BD river pirates loot over 100 trawlers
DHAKA, Nov 2: Pirates looted more than a hundred trawlers on the Meghna River estuary of Monpura, Tajumuddin, Daulatkhan of Bhola and Dhalchar areas of Noakhali on Saturday night, reports said...
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Poll finds Democrats, Bush are almost even
WASHINGTON, Nov 2: One year before the next presidential election, Americans are evenly divided between US President George W. Bush and a Democratic challenger, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll showed...
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Saarc editors call for setting up training academy
DHAKA, Nov 2: The first conference of editors and working journalists of Saarc countries which ended here on Sunday called for setting up a training academy for journalists and promoting...
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All US visa applicants to be fingerprinted
ABU DHABI, Nov 2: US embassies all over the world have started using biometrics as part of a new visa application process, the mission in the United Arab Emirates told AFP...
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Woman rams car into arena at Bush rally
SOUTHAVEN, Nov 2: A woman rammed a car carrying children into a building where US President George W. Bush was campaigning on Saturday, drawing a swarm of police in her wake...
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Iran says it will suspend, not stop enrichment
TEHRAN, Nov 2: Iran reiterated on Sunday it remained unwilling to totally halt uranium enrichment, but pledged that it remained committed to answering any new questions from the International Atomic Energy...
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Walkout hits 20 airlines at London airport
LONDON, Nov 2: Twenty international airlines operating from London’s Heathrow airport were hit on Sunday by a 48-hour strike by check-in staff and baggage handlers, officials said....
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Dhaka, Colombo agree to FTA
DHAKA, Nov 2: Bangladesh and Sri Lanka on Sunday concluded initial talks, agreeing in principle to strike in about one year a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), which will go into...
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