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US general says Osama is ‘out of the picture’
BAGRAM, Nov 21: A senior US general said on Friday that Osama bin Laden had “taken himself out of the picture” and that his capture was not essential to winning the... 
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Turkey is a front in ‘terror war’: Bush
SEDGEFIELD (England), Nov 21: US President George Bush on Friday said Turkey was now a battleground in the “war on terrorism” and offered US help following bombings a day earlier against...
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Europe could be next target: papers
PARIS, Nov 21: Newspapers in several countries expressed fears on Friday that Europe had become a front line in a global war on terrorism, a day after 27 people died and...
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Israeli army admits it used banned weapon
AL QUDS, Nov 21: The Israeli military has admitted that it lied about a rocket attack on a Gaza refugee camp, which according to the army led to no casualties, but...
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Sena forces cancellation of test
MUMBAI, Nov 21: The Indian government postponed on Friday tests to recruit people to the state-run railway after Hindu radicals in Mumbai threatened violence to prevent people from outside the state...
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Jackson freed on bail
SANTA BARBARA, Nov 20: The embattled “King of Pop,” Michael Jackson, was freed on three million dollars bail on Thursday after being handcuffed and arrested on multiple charges of child sex...
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Berlin urges EU to welcome Ankara
BERLIN, Nov 21: Germany, home to Europe’s largest expatriate Turkish community and Ankara’s biggest backer in its EU membership bid, on Friday called on the bloc to welcome the mainly Muslim...
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Mexico’s envoy says he will resign soon
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 21: Mexico’s outspoken ambassador, removed for his anti-American comments, said on Thursday night that he would resign his post a month earlier....
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Chandrika ready to work with PM
COLOMBO, Nov 21: President Kumaratunge said on Friday that she was willing to ‘forget’ everything of the ‘past’ and work ‘together’ for the good of the country....
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100 hurt in clash over BD mosque
DHAKA, Nov 21: Over a hundred people were injured in clashes over offering prayers at an Ahmadia mosque in Tejgaon area of the capital on Friday, with police claiming that 20...
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Johnson ordered Kennedy’s murder: aide
PARIS, Nov 21: A man told a French television station on Friday that Lyndon Johnson allegedly ordered the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. Johnson was vice president at the...
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Al Qaeda claims it carried out bombings
DUBAI, Nov 21: The Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for the twin bombings in Istanbul and threatened fresh deadly attacks against the United States and Japan, in a message received on Friday...
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Four killed in attack on Baghdad stall
BAGHDAD, Nov 21: Four people were killed, including a child, and 20 others injured on Friday in a grenade attack on a stall in south Baghdad selling alcohol during Ramazan, hospital...
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Iraqi fighters turn to humble donkey cart
BAGHDAD, Nov 21: In the face of the military might of the US-led coalition, their opponents on Friday resorted to the humblest of expedients to get past the tight security around...
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What kind of special relationship does UK have with US?
LONDON: A friend of mine swears she recently heard George W. Bush quoted as saying Tony Blair was the least political leader he knew. I haven’t been able to track the...
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‘Cut and run’ is no option for US
WASHINGTON: Suppose President Bush — or for that matter a Democratic successor — were to decide that reconstructing Iraq was impossible or too costly. What would cut and run look like,...
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Communists take to religion in new Iraq
BAGHDAD: In the new Iraq even the Communist Party has adopted the politics of religion....
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Chechens afraid of going home
GROZNY: Despite presidential elections, which it is hoped will bring peace and order to the warring Chechnya, refugees sheltering in the neighbouring republic of Ingushetia still fear they would face too...
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Exhibition on Mesopotamiaat Louvre
PARIS: The Louvre Museum has opened a new room devoted to Mesopotamia of the second century B.C....
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UK in harmony with Europe: a fond hope
LONDON: Predictably, it has been Chris Patten, with his Hong Kong-honed facility for capitulation, who has made the definitive obeisance of the pro-European Conservatives at the coronation of Michael Howard. He...
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