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Al Qaeda's nuclear ambitions unattainable, says paper
WASHINGTON, Dec 30: Although Osama bin Laden has received the blessing of a Saudi religious leader to acquire nuclear weapons, it will be difficult for Al Qaeda to put together a useable device ... 
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If not a unipolar world, then what?
WASHINGTON: This time a year ago, US forces had just pulled former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from his "spider hole" near the Euphrates River, and top military commanders were trumpeting the crippling of the unanticipated deadly insurgency ...
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US to take billions off defence
WASHINGTON, Dec 30: The US Defence Department wants to take some 60 billion dollars off its budget over the next six years, marking the first slowdown in US military spending since the September 11, 2001 attacks ...
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Scare at US navy base
NEW YORK, Dec 30: Authorities evacuated and searched two buses near the US navy base in Norfolk, Virginia, on Thursday after reports one of them was carrying explosives, but no bomb was found, MSNBC television said. ...
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Sharon, Peres clinch deal on unity govt
AL QUDS, Dec 30: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reached a deal with Shimon Peres on Thursday to name the opposition leader his senior deputy, clearing a key obstacle to a unity government able to abandon the occupied Gaza Strip. ...
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Israeli forces kill five Palestinians
GAZA, Dec 30: Israeli troops killed five Palestinians on Thursday as tanks pushed into the southern Gaza Strip in what the army called a raid to root out militants behind mortar and rocket fire on Jewish settlements. ...
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New York Times says US is 'stingy'
NEW YORK, Dec 30: The New York Times said on Thursday that the United States has been stingy in its response to the tsunami disaster and in giving aid in general. ...
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Global action on death penalty debatable
UNITED NATIONS: A proposed moratorium on the death penalty may be moving closer to a vote in the United Nations General Assembly - but advocates remain wary that rushing a resolution on the issue could lead to a setback ...
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Muslims fingerprinted for attending meet: US officials' reaction to Toronto conference
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 30: American Muslim civil rights groups on Thursday accused US border agents of 'religion profiling' after dozens of American Muslims were searched, fingerprinted and photographed ...
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Over 2,000 foreigners killed in Thailand
KHAO LAK, Dec 30: The Indian Ocean tsunami killed at least 2,230 foreigners in Thailand, most of them in the devastated Khao Lak resort and on other southern beaches, officials said on Thursday. ...
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Tsunami adds to belief in animals' 'sixth sense'
JOHANNESBURG, Dec 30: Wild animals seem to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami, adding weight to notions they possess a "sixth sense" for disasters, experts said on Thursday. ...
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World's worst disasters
LONDON, Dec 30: The following is a list of some of the worst earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters on record: ...
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Fresh wave warning sparks panic in India
NEW DELHI, Dec 30: Tens of thousands of Indians fled in terror on Thursday from coastal areas devastated by tsunamis after the authorities sounded a new alert that a minister later admitted had been ill-judged. ...
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Indian capital to shun New Year festivities
NEW DELHI, Dec 30: India's capital New Delhi will shun New Year celebrations, with elite hotels and clubs on Thursday cancelling festivities after the devastation caused by a massive tsunami across the Indian Ocean. ...
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2 face probe in hostage-freeing mission
PARIS, Dec 30: French authorities on Wednesday placed under investigation two assistants of a French lawmaker, as part of a probe into a failed freelance mission to free two reporters held hostage in Iraq ...
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Meteorite hits house in Iran
TEHRAN, Dec 30: A meteorite weighing at least 16 kilograms hit a house in the south east of Iran on Tuesday, the state news agency IRNA reported on Thursday. ...
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