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Money, not religion, behind terrorism
LONDON: Money is terrorism’s lifeline. Economics, not politics or ideology, is the armed struggle’s universal engine. This is the unexpected and disconcerting scenario unveiled by an economic analysis of modern terrorism.... 
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Kremlin divided by assault on business
MOSCOW: The Russian Prime Minister, Mikhail Kasyanov, showed a deep split in the Kremlin last week by appearing to criticize openly its crackdown on big business interests, which has culminated in...
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Genome reaches two billion letters
LONDON: Fifty years after the discovery of the structure of the genetic code, UK scientists at Cambridge have set a new world record. They have decoded two billion letters of the...
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’Copter downing: a feared precedent for US in Iraq
BAGHDAD: The spectacular downing of a Chinook helicopter near the flashpoint town of Fallujah, which killed 16 American soldiers, sounds the alarm over whether insurgents are now adept at picking off...
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Iranians blame Britons for all ills
TEHRAN: Before moving to London to start a new job, my Iranian friend visited his dentist, who he has known since he was a child....
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MI5 tried to bug friendly embassy
LONDON: The British secret service MI5 planned to bug the London embassy of one of Britain’s allies in the so-called “war on terror”, it was disclosed on Sunday....
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Resistance is the first step towards Iraqi independence
LONDON: Some weeks ago, Pentagon inmates were invited to a special in-house showing of an old movie. It was the Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo’s anti-colonial classic, initially banned in France....
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67 killed as floods sweep thru park in Indonesia: Foreigners among dead
 MEDAN, Nov 3: Flash floods swept through one of Indonesia’s biggest national parks early on Monday killing at least 67 people, including foreign tourists, as they slept and leaving hundreds more...
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Africans lead revolt in Anglican church: Consecration of gay bishop
LONDON, Nov 3: Conservative Anglicans, led by Africans, refused on Monday to recognise the consecration of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire and accused the United States church of “declaring...
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SA group plotted to down US jet: Court told
PRETORIA, Nov 3: White South African extremists made plans at a club two years ago to shoot down a US passenger jet over a black township near Cape Town, a court...
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Iran scraps Russia talks over Israeli PM’s visit
MOSCOW, Nov 3: Hassan Rohani, head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, scrapped Kremlin talks on Monday in a move analysts said may be linked to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s...
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Russian oil tycoon quits as chief of Yukos
MOSCOW, Nov 3: Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was arrested nine days ago on fraud charges widely seen as politically-motivated, has quit as chief executive of Yukos, the country’s largest...
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Bush facing pressure, say US papers
WASHINGTON, Nov 3: Key US newspapers said on Monday that the bloodiest day for US forces in Iraq had increased pressure on President George W. Bush to retain public support for...
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Al Azhar blacklists book of love poetry
CAIRO, Nov 3: Sunni Islam’s highest authority, Al-Azhar university, has blacklisted a book of love poetry by an Egyptian writer even though it was approved for sale by the Egyptian government...
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Daler Mehndi’s bail plea rejected
NEW DELHI, Nov 3: An Indian court on Monday rejected appeals for bail of a multi-millionaire rock star charged with trafficking in humans by ferrying them across Western borders disguised as...
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US judge’s plea over Biblical writing rejected
WASHINGTON, Nov 3: The US Supreme Court on Monday rejected a long-disputed bid by Alabama’s top judge to display the Ten Commandments at the state judicial building....
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Global warming predictions ‘coming true’
FLORENCE, Nov 3: Prophetic warnings of how global warming will play havoc with the world’s agriculture appear to be coming true. High temperatures and water shortages have reduced crop yields across...
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Single jail cells to be destroyed in Iran
TEHRAN, Nov 3: The Iranian judiciary has ordered all prisons in the country to destroy the notorious single cells, the Tehran daily Ressalat reported on Monday....
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Spain shuts border with Gibraltar over virus ship
GIBRALTAR, Nov 3: Spain shut its border with the British colony of Gibraltar on Monday for the first time in nearly two decades after a Mediterranean cruise ship carrying tourists with...
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Germany disputes legality of invasion: US damaging Nato: minister
BERLIN, Nov 3: German Defence Minister Peter Struck mounted a sharp attack on Monday on the United States over its Iraq policy and questioned whether the war against Baghdad complied with...
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