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Nepal rebels enforce blockade: Ex-PM's daughter escapes to India
KATHMANDU, Feb 12: Traffic on Nepal's roads slowed to a trickle on Saturday as a transport blockade called by Maoist rebels began to take effect, while officials reported that rebels were massing in the remote west of the Himalayan outpost. ... 
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Schroeder calls for revamping Nato
MUNICH, Feb 12: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Saturday soured the mood before a NATO summit aimed at relaunching transatlantic ties by declaring the 56-year-old alliance was outdated and in need of a revamp. ...
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Iranian guards say fatwa against Rushdie in tact
TEHRAN, Feb 12: Iran's hardline Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday Salman Rushdie still faced eventual execution, 16 years after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini imposed a death sentence on the British novelist. ...
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Religious hardliners win Riyadh election
RIYADH, Feb 12: Islamist candidates, apparently backed by religious leaders, have emerged triumphant bloc in the capital in the Kingdom's landmark municipal elections held on Thursday. ...
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US firm, India may co-produce F-16s
WASHINGTON, Feb 12: The biggest US defence company, Lockheed Martin Corp., is negotiating a deal with New Delhi that may allow joint production of the F-16 aircraft in India, company officials said. ...
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Hollywood to re-create Fallujah fight
LOS ANGELES, Feb 12: Hollywood plans to re-create the bloody battle for the Iraqi city of Fallujah in a movie that could star screen tough-guy Harrison Ford, studio executives said on Friday. ...
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Iraq has the freedom to be occupied
LONDON: "The Iraqi people gave America the biggest thank you in the best way we could have hoped for." Reading this election analysis from Betsy Hart, a columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service, I found myself thinking about my late grandmother. ...
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Abbas and Sharon: the truce cracks?
AL QUDS: Having bathed in the dreamy tranquillity of Sharm El-Sheikh and imbibed the heady atmosphere of their ceasefire summit at the Egyptian Red Sea resort ...
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Spirit of the white rose
DRESDEN: If Ingolf Rossberg, the mayor of Dresden, has his way, the white rose will become as significant a symbol in Germany as the red poppy is in Britain. ...
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US professor on the justice of roosting chickens
SAN FRANCISCO: A University of Colorado professor, Ward Churchill, has sparked controversy over an essay in which he maintains that people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were not innocent victims. ...
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