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Military to stress on reconstruction: New US commander in Afghanistan says
KABUL, Dec 21: The US military plans to focus increasingly on Afghanistan’s lawless south and east in a bid to counter resurgent militants who carried out their first deadly attacks on... 
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GCC summit to discuss terrorism, Iraq’s debt
 KUWAIT, Dec 21: Gulf Arab states must join forces to combat the threat of terror in their region, Kuwait told US allied Gulf countries holding their first meeting since the capture...
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76 die, 114 missing in Philippines landslide
MANILA, Dec 21: Rescuers used bare hands and shovels in the Philippines on Sunday to search for missing friends and relatives after landslides, flash floods and a tornado killed scores of...
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Anglican Church may criticize detentions
LONDON, Dec 21: The Archbishop of Canterbury, spiritual head of the Church of England, has indicated he will criticize the detention without trial of terrorist suspects in Britain and the US...
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Israel may move thousands of settlers
AL QUDS, Dec 21: Tens of thousands of Jewish settlers might have to move if Israel enacts mooted measures to separate from the Palestinians, Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on...
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Protests held against French headscarf ban
PARIS, Dec 21: An estimated 3,000 women and men demonstrated in Paris on Sunday against French President Jacques Chirac’s controversial pledge to back a government ban on the Islamic headscarf in...
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Five-year-old Palestinian boy shot dead
NABLUS, Dec 21: A five-year-old Palestinian boy was killed by Israeli fire in Balata refugee camp on Sunday, Palestinian medics said....
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USA slates BD govt for HR abuses
DHAKA, Dec 21: The US State Department, in its recently released country report on Bangladesh, has heavily criticized the government for “innumerable” human rights abuses and extra-judicial killings last year. “The...
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No chance for Taiwan, Hu tells Bush
BEIJING, Dec 21: Chinese President Hu Jintao said in a telephone conversation with his US counterpart, George W. Bush, that his government would never tolerate an independent Taiwan, the state-run news...
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Elite Israeli troops refuse to fight
AL QUDS, Dec 21: Fifteen members of the Israeli army’s top commando unit have written to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon refusing to carry out missions in the Palestinian territories, private television...
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Sticks, carrots at work on Libya
LONDON: Tony Blair’s Friday night triumph may have seemed underwhelming for one main reason: not many people knew that Libya had weapons of mass destruction to begin with. The Prime Minister,...
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Afghan deadlock weakens Karzai
ISLAMABAD: It was supposed to be a triumph, a Grand Council to usher in Afghanistan’s first ever elections next year. But, when Malalai Joya, a delegate from western Farah province, stepped...
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New holiday destination could be space
NEW YORK: For those still searching for the perfect holiday gift, how’s this for an out-of-this world idea: Space burials....
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Democracy hopes alive for Myanmar
BANGKOK: Hopes for democratic reform in Myanmar appeared to have evaporated in May when the ruling junta arrested opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and crushed her party. Yet the end...
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Iraq parallels found in earlier American era
PHILADELPHIA: Here’s a quiz. What period of American history do the next three paragraphs describe?...
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New York’s skyline begins to heal
NEW YORK: New York is hoping to be on top of the world again with its Freedom Tower. The structure, designed by Daniel Libeskind and David Childs is planned to stand...
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