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Settlements in Gaza could go: Sharon
AL QUDS, Dec 16: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has told ministers ahead of a major policy speech that Israel must be ready to quit Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip,... 
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US, France agree Iraq’s debt should be reduced
PARIS, Dec 16: France and the United States agreed on Tuesday that Iraq’s crushing national debt had to be reduced to aid reconstruction efforts, amid signs that a thaw is finally...
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Daughter says Saddam was drugged
DUBAI, Dec 16: Saddam Hussein must have been drugged before he was captured by US forces, the ousted dictator’s eldest daughter, Raghad, told Al-Arabiya television on Tuesday....
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‘Terrorist’ list issued by China flayed
BEIJING, Dec 16: Two groups listed by China as “terrorist” organizations denounced the move on Tuesday as a politically motivated act unfairly targeting Muslims, while human rights activists said peaceful dissenters...
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Saddam was treated ‘like a cow,’ says cardinal
VATICAN CITY, Dec 16: A top Vatican official said on Tuesday he felt pity and compassion for Saddam Hussein and criticised the US military for showing video footage of him being...
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US human clone trial repeated successfully
WASHINGTON, Dec 16: The only researchers to publicly show that they have cloned a human embryo said on Tuesday that they had successfully repeated the experiment, growing an embryo to the...
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Wright brothers flight centenary
KITTY HAWK (USA), Dec 16: The United States will celebrate on Wednesday the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers’ first flight, a seminal event that helped the country lay its claim...
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9 die in cyclone
HYDERABAD (India) Dec 16: Nine people were killed and thousands were evacuated from India’s southeast coast on Tuesday as a cyclone hit shore, uprooting trees and snapping power and telephones lines....
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8,000 protest in Kathmandu
KATHMANDU, Dec 16: Nearly 8,000 activists from Nepal’s major political parties took to the streets of Kathmandu on Tuesday to denounce King Gyanendra for dismissing the elected government last year....
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Mixed blessing for Bush, Blair
LONDON: Under a different kind of empire in an earlier age, there is little doubt what would have happened. The captured Saddam would have been paraded in chains past cheering crowds...
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Congress looks to Gandhi heir
NEW DELHI: Will she? Won’t she? Plunge into politics, that is....
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America accused of playing favourites
LOS ANGELES: Incensed that foreign countries were playing favourites in doling out billions of dollars to build airports, roads and dams, the United States became a prime cheerleader for a global...
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US takes custody of another wayward client
WASHINGTON: At last in US military captivity, ousted former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein will soon mark an important 20th anniversary, the kind of anniversary that brings with it an appreciation of...
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Arabs & Western stereotyping
BEIRUT: Derogatory and pejorative stereotyping of the Arabs has been and continues to be a pervasive phenomenon in the Western mass media, particularly in the United States....
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Pirates join annual hunt for white gold
WELLINGTON: In and around the Antarctic, in some of the coldest, most inhospitable, waters on earth, the annual hunt has begun for the fish they call white gold — so valuable...
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Mauritius plans to become business hub
PORT LOUIS: Mauritius, with its palm fringed white beaches and clear blue lagoons, is famous as a getaway resort for those wanting to escape the stresses of work....
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