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November 5, 2003 Wednesday Ramazan 9, 1424 Putin’s crackdown on oligarchs stirs panic LONDON: I hope nothing too unpleasant happens to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, believed by many to be Russia’s richest man, while he is in prison. I do not think it will. He has... Russia heading for state capitalism, says Soros MOSCOW: Russian businessmen may have to take their orders from the state after the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the nation’s richest tycoon, billionaire financier George Soros was quoted as saying on... Palestinians struggle for land rights in Lebanon BEIRUT: Month after month for years, Abu Jamal scraped together meagre earnings to buy a home of his own. But the fruit of the 63-year old glazier’s labours, a small flat... Petrarch grave to be opened ROME: The 14th century Italian poet Francesco Petrarch left hundreds of letters detailing his life and thoughts. Now scientists plan to dig up his remains to find out more about his... No escaping Britain’s Bonfire night LONDON: Guy Fawkes has a lot to answer for.Bad enough that he and a posse of fellow Catholic plotters tried to blow up King James I with 36 barrels of gunpowder... ’Copter downing a setback, say experts WASHINGTON: The downing of an American Chinook helicopter in Iraq shows the danger to aircraft in the country and could be another blow to the opening of Baghdad’s airport, aviation analysts... Congress okays $87bn for Iraq, Afghanistan WASHINGTON, Nov 4: US President Bush on Tuesday welcomed a final congressional approval of legislation to provide 87.5 billion dollars to support security operations and rebuilding efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan,... Putin ignores Sharon plea to drop UN resolution MOSCOW, Nov 4: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon faltered on Tuesday in a bid to convince top Russian officials to drop their efforts to turn the Middle East peace “roadmap” into... EU concerned over Israel poll result, denies political role BRUSSELS, Nov 4: European Commission head Romano Prodi has expressed deep concern at an EU poll showing that Europeans consider Israel the biggest threat to world peace, insisting it did not... German general in Semitism row sacked BERLIN, Nov 4: The head of the German military’s special forces was sacked on Tuesday after backing a conservative politician under fire for comments widely criticised as anti-Semitic.... Africa poses terror threat: Nato BERLIN, Nov 4: Nato’s top soldier said on Tuesday that lawless parts of Africa would increasingly provide a haven for extremist groups which... Israeli party’s plan exposes dissent AL QUDS, Nov 4: A partner in Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s government is drawing up a peace proposal that includes a call to evacuate an isolated Jewish settlement in the Gaza... Tussle blocks formation of Palestinian cabinet RAMALLAH, Nov 4: A power struggle between Yasser Arafat and his prime minister blocked plans to form a new Palestinian government on Tuesday and threatened to delay renewed peace moves between... Anti-Shevardnadze protest in Georgia TBILISI, Nov 4: Thousands of opposition supporters marched through the Georgian capital on Tuesday to protest initial results of a parliamentary poll and demand veteran President Eduard Shevardnadze step down.... US military defends TV ban on coffins BERLIN, Nov 4: The US military said on Monday it was sticking to a policy forbidding television camera crews and photographers from filming coffins of soldiers killed in Iraq at a... Tehran has violated safeguards: IAEA VIENNA, Nov 4: The UN nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, will report that Iran has failed to honour some international nuclear safeguards, at a key meeting later this month, the director was... Tel Aviv’s unusual resolution at UN UNITED NATIONS, Nov 4: Israel, the object of hundreds of critical UN resolutions, took the unusual step of circulating its first General Assembly measure since 1976, challenging nations to censure those... US ‘favouring’ Kurds in Iraq: Turkey’s complaint WASHINGTON, Nov 4: The Turkish ambassador in Washington said on Tuesday the United States was giving excessive favours to Kurdish groups in Iraq, at the risk of encouraging civil war and... 185 feared dead in Indonesia’s flood disaster BAHOROK, Nov 4: Rescuers searching shattered homes in an Indonesian resort town had found 85 bodies by Tuesday afternoon but 100 people are still missing feared dead after a flood disaster... Toxic mercury being dumped in India: study NEW DELHI, Nov 4: India, already saddled with high air and water pollution, is fast becoming the world’s dumping ground for toxic mercury, a leading environmental group said....

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