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Cold wave kills 370 in Afghanistan
KABUL, Feb 23: More than 370 people, many of them young children, have died from avalanches and health problems from the country's worst winter in a decade, officials said on Wednesday. ... 
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Qorei fails to form cabinet as MPs withhold support
RAMALLAH, Feb 23: The Palestinian prime minister failed to win approval for his new cabinet for the third successive day on Wednesday in a deepening crisis with lawmakers demanding more reformists and fewer Yasser Arafat loyalists. ...
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Official's visit to Israel causes outrage in UAE
DUBAI, Feb 23: An unprecedented visit to Jerusalem by a senior official from Dubai, during which he met Israeli Prime Minster Ariel Sharon and other leaders, has caused an outcry in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). ...
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Diplomacy has just begun on Iran: Bush: Syria called upon to vacate Lebanon
MAINZ, Feb 23: US President George Bush said on Wednesday that European diplomatic efforts to rein in Iran's nuclear programme were only just beginning and that comparisons with Iraq were wrong. ...
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Germans protest against Bush visit
MAINZ, Feb 23: At least 4,000 demonstrators vented their anger at the visit of US President George Bush to Germany here on Wednesday but were kept well away from a castle where the president dined. ...
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N-material stolen from Russian plant: US
WASHINGTON, Feb 23: Intelligence agencies in Washington have concluded that theft of radioactive materials from Russia's sprawling nuclear complex "has occurred" and the country's atomic power plants remain vulnerable to terrorist attack ...
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Lufthansa to seek compensation
FRANKFURT, Feb 23: Deutsche Lufthansa may seek compensation after dozens of flights at Frankfurt airport had to be cancelled amid heightened security because of U.S. President George W. Bush's visit to Germany on Wednesday. ...
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Bangkok moved 9cms after quake
BANGKOK, Feb 23: Bangkok has shifted nine centimetres because of the Dec 26 earthquake that measured 9.0 on the Richter scale and sent devastating tsunamis across the Indian Ocean, local newspapers reported Wednesday. ...
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Pentagon woos India with missile shield
NEW DELHI: A high-level delegation of officials from Pentagon on Tuesday gave a presentation before the joint team of officials from the Ministries of External Affairs and Defence on the proposed National Missile Defence system of the United States. ...
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Tough time for India in Nicobar islands
PORT BLAIR: A week after the December tsunami struck India's Nicobar islands, tribal leaders wrote to the territory's lieutenant-governor. ...
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LTTE-govt relations strained: Cease fire enters fourth year
COLOMBO: The military has decided to call a spade a spade as the government-LTTE cease fire entered into its fourth year. ...
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Maldives banks on aid for rebuilding
MALE: The Maldives wants to move thousands of residents from low-lying islands as part of a massive rebuilding effort after December's tsunamis and is banking on foreign aid to get the job done, said President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom in an interview. ...
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