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Saddam should face ‘ultimate penalty’: Bush: EU opposes death sentence
WASHINGTON, Dec 17: US President George Bush said on Tuesday that Saddam Hussein should face “the ultimate penalty”, as the Central Intelligence Agency took charge of interrogating the former Iraqi president.... 
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Taiwan’s Sars case alarms Asia: Singapore quarantines 70
TAIPEI, Dec 17: A medical researcher in Taiwan has tested positive for Sars, the first case in Greater China since the flu-like virus killed hundreds of people and battered the region’s...
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Israel, India to put telescope in space
NEW DELHI, Dec 17: Top Israeli scientific officials will visit India next week to sign an agreement to put Israeli space telescopes on an Indian satellite, the Israeli embassy here said...
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Saddam’s trial to have non-Iraqi judges: US
WASHINGTON, Dec 17: The US believes the war crimes tribunal being setup in Iraq to try deposed president Saddam Hussein and other prisoners will also have non-Iraqi members, the State Department...
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Bid to re-enact first flight fails
KILL DEVIL HILLS (USA), Dec 17: An attempt to re-enact the first powered human flight with a replica of the Wright Brothers wood-and-cloth biplane was a flop on Wednesday, dampening a...
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Over 130 killed in Bhutan battles
NEW DELHI, Dec 17: At least 100 separatists from northeast India and 34 Bhutanese army personnel were killed in an ongoing operation by the Bhutanese army, reports said on Wednesday....
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Pope holds last general audience of year
 VATICAN CITY, Dec 17: The ailing Pope John Paul II held his last general audience of the year on Wednesday, appearing in relatively good form but making it only halfway through...
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Saudi tribe told to elect a deputy leader
DHAHRAN, Dec 17: In an interesting development, a tribe in Saudi Arabia has been asked to organize balloting to overcome the feud in electing deputy chief of the tribe....
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11 killed in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Dec 17: At least 11 security personnel were killed in two separate landmine explosions in western Nepal on Wednesday, the independent Kantipur FM radio reported....
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49 dead after cyclone hits south India
HYDERABAD (India) Dec 17: At least 49 people died and millions of dollars worth of crop damaged when a cyclone ripped through rice-growing villages on India’s southeastern coast, officials said Wednesday....
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4 arrested in Bahrain
MANAMA, Dec 17: Police on Wednesday arrested at least four Bahrainis who set fire to tyres hours after several thousand protesters marched to denounce past human rights abuses there....
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Saddam should be given a fair trial
LONDON: We got him — but what do we do with him? Debate over the future of Saddam Hussein began within minutes of his capture and already bids fair to set...
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Russia keeps mum on Chechnya
MOSCOW: As more and more Russians die in suicide attacks blamed on Chechen rebels and the death toll mounts in the war-torn republic itself, the “Chechnya question” remains conspicuously absent from...
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EU’s military role poses questions for Finland
HELSINKI: Finland’s neutrality is likely to come under increasing strain as a result of the European Union’s adoption of a landmark security pact....
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Plans to curb corruption in India flounder under vendetta charges
NEW DELHI: India was one of 95 countries that signed the United Nations Convention Against Corruption this month, but activists at home say the political will to investigate corruption — let...
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China’s biking leap backward
LONDON: Of all the signs that China, after nearly three decades of headlong growth, has moved into a new era, few have struck me as forcefully as the news that Shanghai...
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Is it bye-bye black sheep?
SYDNEY: Black sheep may exist only in nursery rhymes if Australian scientists succeed in coming up with a way of detecting which animals carry the gene that results in black or...
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Religious leaders seek a common path
SEVILLE: While world media continued to report on conflict ranging from the Middle East to Chechnya, more than 40 religious leaders from around the globe met quietly in the southern Spanish...
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