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Nepal frees former PM, others
KATHMANDU, March 11: Nepal freed on Friday former premier Sher Bahadur Deuba and 17 other detainees held since King Gyanendra seized power last month, a party official said, amid mounting pressure... 
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Pentagon plans to move Guantanamo detainees
WASHINGTON, March 11: The Pentagon is seeking help from the US State Department and other agencies to transfer about half of the 540 detainees at the US base in Guantanamo to...
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Muslims issue fatwa against Osama: Madrid bombing
MADRID, March 11: Spain’s leading Islamic body has issued a religious order declaring Osama bin Laden to have forsaken Islam by backing attacks such as the Madrid train bombings a year...
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Russia says executions of Poles not genocide
MOSCOW, March 11: Russian prosecutors who investigated the 1940 execution of nearly 15,000 Polish prisoners of war by Soviet security forces said on Friday the killings were not genocide....
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Al Qaeda-linked cleric freed in UK
LONDON, March 11: Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, dubbed Al Qaeda’s “spiritual head” in Europe, and five other foreign terrorism suspects who have been held in Britain without charge were freed on...
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Protesting Iranians surrender at Brussels
BRUSSELS, March 11: Some 60 Iranian protesters were detained by Belgian police early on Friday after staging a sit-in on a plane at Brussels airport for nearly 16 hours overnight, officials...
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A good year for billionaires
NEW YORK, March 11: It has been a good year for billionaires, with the super-wealthy increasing their collective net worth by 300 billion dollars, Forbes Magazine reported on Thursday in its...
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Distrust festers between US Muslims, agencies
NEW YORK: An institutional climate of “Islamophobia” and wariness among many US Arabs and Muslims of the federal government are proving to be substantial barriers to recruiting Arabic speakers into the...
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Lebanon is not Ukraine
LONDON: Do events in Lebanon reflect a population united in rejecting Syrian influence, and is this “independence uprising” part of an inexorable movement towards freedom and democracy? Popular discontent was already...
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Unipolarity re-affirmed
WASHINGTON: Just one week ago, conventional wisdom both here and in European capitals was that President George W. Bush’s second term would see a modest turn toward multilateralism and a new...
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