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Battles loom over world free trade talks
GENEVA: A truce over the multi-billion dollar subsidies which the big trading powers pay their farmers may collapse if talks to slash them do not make progress by the end of... 
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US contractors to reap windfall: Reconstruction of Iraq
WASHINGTON: More than 70 American companies and individuals have won up to $8 billion in contracts for work in postwar Iraq and Afghanistan over the last two years, according to a...
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UK aid funds diverted to Iraq
LONDON/CARACAS: The full extent of Britain’s retreat from its overseas aid commitments was revealed on Thursday as the UK Department for International Development (DfID) reshushuffled finances to pay for the reconstruction...
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Putin hints at fresh crackdown on business
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin, hinted on Thursday that the Kremlin had only just begun a crackdown against “corruption” in big business and politics, as fresh moves were made against the beleaguered...
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Ataturk: Turkey’s man for all seasons
ANKARA: At 9.05 am on Monday, air-raid sirens will wail across Turkish cities, morning rush-hour traffic will halt and schoolchildren will stand to attention....
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Rats to sniff out landmines
KAMPALA: A Belgian research project for detecting landmines, using specially trained sniffer rats, will be launched next week when the first batch of rodents are sent on their first assignment to...
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Britain agog over bizarre Charles ‘scandal’
LONDON, Nov 7: Britain’s public was agog and its newshounds salivating on Friday over perhaps the most bizarre royal scandal yet — the case of what Prince Charles says he didn’t...
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Israeli troops kill four Palestinians in Gaza
GAZA, Nov 7: Israeli troops killed a 10-year-old Palestinian boy and three militants in the Gaza Strip on Friday, but eased a West Bank blockade to try to bolster Palestinian Prime...
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Chirac, Putin hold low-key talks
PARIS, Nov 7: Russian President Vladimir Putin got a warm welcome in Paris on Friday from French President Jacques Chirac, with no sign that the controversy over the Russian oil giant...
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Taliban plan to abduct newsmen, says US
WASHINGTON, Nov 7: Remnants of the Taliban militia are planning to abduct American journalists in Afghanistan in a bid to win the release of their compatriots currently held by the United...
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Muttawakil’s release to ‘boost’ Karzai
WASHINGTON, Nov 7: The recent release of Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, foreign minister in the Taliban government, seems to be part of a strategy to recruit elements of the erstwhile government into...
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Indian PM says Gujarat killers will be punished
NEW DELHI, Nov 7: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has pledged to punish the perpetrators of Muslims’ massacre that killed some 2,000 people last year in Gujarat, which is ruled...
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Iraq ‘mess’ may bolster UN: Turner
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 7: US billionaire Ted Turner said Thursday he hoped the world would learn from the errors of the Iraq war and that the United Nations would be strengthened...
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Muezzin’s error results in extra fast for Turks
ISTANBUL, Nov 7: A muezzin has mistakenly forced an extra day of fasting on people in a Turkish town by reading the azan five minutes early, officials said on Friday....
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Cairo used ‘excessive force’, says HRW
CAIRO, Nov 7: Egypt’s security forces used excessive force, including torture in March against demonstrators protesting the US-led invasion of Iraq, said a Human Rights Watch report published on Friday....
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Ex-Congress leader sentenced to death
 NEW DELHI, Nov 7: An Indian court on Friday handed down the death penalty to a former politician convicted of shooting his wife and burning her dismembered corpse in the “tandoor”...
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US forms covert force to hunt Saddam, Osama
NEW YORK, Nov 7: Pentagon’s commander for the Middle East has created a covert commando force to hunt Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden and key terrorists throughout the region, the New...
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Indian killed in Kabul
KABUL, Nov 7: An Indian national working for a private Indian firm was killed by unknown attackers in Kabul, an Afghan official said on Friday....
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Indignant Arabs say Bush democracy speech a sham
DUBAI, Nov 7: US President George Bush’s calls for democracy rang hollow in the Middle East, where many said on Friday they were appalled Washington was preaching liberty for Arabs while...
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Rectified spirit kills 10 in BD
DHAKA, Nov 7: At least ten people died and about 30 others fell seriously ill in Kushtia after taking rectified spirit earlier this week, officials said on Thursday....
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