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Blair fails to win Bush assurance: Guantanamo prisoners
LONDON, Nov 20: British Prime Minister Tony Blair failed on Thursday to wring concessions from US President George Bush on the fate of British citizens jailed at the US base at... 
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White House evacuated after blip on radar
WASHINGTON, Nov 20: A “blip” on a radar screen, rather than a plane, sent scores of White House staff and tourists fleeing the executive mansion on Thursday in fear of another...
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Attacks in Turkey: a chronology
ISTANBUL, Nov 20: Thursday’s two suicide car bomb blasts in Istanbul were the latest in a long line of attacks in the past two decades of Turkey’s turbulent political history....
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Another security lapse exposed
LONDON, Nov 20: An undercover reporter who exposed a security lapse at Buckingham Palace claimed on Thursday that security at Windsor Castle, another residence of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, was even worse....
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US resigned to Shia rule in Iraq: paper
WASHINGTON, Nov 20: The United States is resigned that Iraq’s Shia population will likely dominate the interim government next year, but it is less concerned at the prospect, The New York...
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Jackson to face multiple charges
SANTA BARBARA, Nov 20: Pop star Michael Jackson prepared to surrender on Thursday to California authorities to face child molestation accusations while his lawyers tried to engineer a way to avoid...
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Lankan PM offers olive branch to president
COLOMBO, Nov 20: Sri Lanka’s government on Thursday offered an olive branch to the president in hopes of ending a power struggle that has stalled peace talks with Tamil Tiger rebels...
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Assam rebels warn of more attacks
GUWAHATI, Nov 20: Separatist rebels warned of fresh attacks against immigrants in the northeast Indian state of Assam on Thursday after a killing and arson spree in which at least 30...
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Insecurity affects Afghan rebuilding: WB
KABUL, Nov 20: The World Bank warned on Thursday that deteriorating security was undermining reconstruction in Afghanistan, as the 12th aid worker to be killed in the war-ravaged country this year...
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Saudis unhappy with US agencies
RIYADH, Nov 20: Saudi officials have accused US security agencies of monopolizing intelligence and “always pressing for information from the Saudi side without giving anything in return”....
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Rally against re-registration of Muslims
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 20: A protest rally was held here on Wednesday outside the office of the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) against the yearly re-registration of non-immigrants from 24...
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5 killed in BD
DHAKA, Nov 20: Armed extremists shot and slaughtered five young fishermen near Pabna, 150kms from Dhaka....
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Survivors recall Istanbul blast
ISTANBUL, Nov 20: Fahrettin Calik was looking out of his office window when a truck loaded with explosives smashed through the British consulate gates opposite....
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Archaeological find may lead to rewriting of history
LONDON: Scientists have uncovered a landscape of buried buildings and villages representing more than 6,000 years of British history. Anglo-Saxon settlements, Roman houses, Bronze Age graves and Iron Age homes —...
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End of occupation is only way out: New US tactics unlikely to work
LONDON: As part of the get-rough strategy just introduced in Iraq, US forces are striking with missiles, dropping 500lb bombs and using heavy bombardment on suspected insurgent hideouts in the civilian...
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Germans still struggling with Nazi past
BERLIN: How long should Germans be held accountable for the Holocaust?...
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Biometrics hold key to hi-tech Revolution
PARIS: The executive skips past the snaking airport check-in queue, waves a credit-card size pass at a monitor, puts a finger into a hi-tech reader and proceeds to the boarding zone...
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US House ‘vets’ Afghan constitution
WASHINGTON: A group of well-meaning American lawmakers in Washington sat through a briefing on Afghanistan on Wednesday wondering how to implement liberal secular values in a country steeped in religious traditions....
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