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Annan calls for UNSC expansion: Scrapping of HR body recommended
UNITED NATIONS, March 20: Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on the United Nations on Sunday to expand the Security Council from 15 to 24 members and scrap the Commission on Human Rights... 
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Lebanese parties reject govt’s talks offer
BEIRUT, March 20: Lebanon’s crisis deepened on Sunday with the opposition spurning a plea for dialogue from the pro-Syrian president and as a UN envoy said he feared another high-profile political...
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Hundreds protest against church land sale in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM, March 20: Up to 400 Palestinian Christians demonstrated in Jerusalem on Sunday to protest the sale by the Greek Orthodox Church of two properties in the Old City to foreign...
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Kyrghyz protesters storm police post, govt office
JALAL-ABAD, (Kyrgyzstan), March 20: Protesters in Kyrgyzstan set fire to a police station and stormed a regional governor’s headquarters on Sunday. The incident in the regional centre of Jalal-Abad, long considered...
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Iraq, Jordan recall ambassadors
AMMAN/BAGHDAD, March 20: A row between Iraq and Jordan over reports that a Jordanian man carried out the deadliest suicide bombing in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein worsened on...
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US defends move against Modi
WASHINGTON, March 20: The State Department on Saturday defended the decision to bar the Gujarat chief minister from the United States, saying that Narendra Modi was refused a visa because an...
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One killed, 12 injured in Qatar blast
DOHA, March 20: A shocked Qatar on Sunday probed how an Egyptian suicide bomber killed a Briton and wounded 12 people near a British school in the capital Doha, amid fears...
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France, Israel to launch satellite in 2008
JERUSALEM, March 20: Israel and France are to launch a joint satellite for “scientific purposes” in 2008, the Israeli Maariv newspaper said on Sunday....
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Turkey’s stand hurt US, says Rumsfeld
WASHINGTON, March 20: Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday he regretted that US troops had not been able to enter northern Iraq through Turkey during the 2003 invasion, saying this...
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15 years’ jail for Zarqawi
AMMAN, March 20: Jordan’s state security court sentenced Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al Zarqawi in absentia to 15 years in jail and another Jordanian militant to three years on Sunday...
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Kremlin mobilizing youth
MOSCOW: It was about halfway through the secret training session of the new pro-Kremlin youth movement, Nashi, when Ilya Yashin was exposed as an infiltrator....
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Supporting Sharon in spite of Sharon
TEL AVIV: Ever since the Sharon announced his intention last year to pull troops and settlers out of Gaza, the usual party lines and loyalties have been scrambled as politicians and...
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US: titanic struggle over social security
NEW YORK: President George Bush is facing political disaster as his radical moves to overhaul America’s social security system come under unprecedented opposition. Bush has staked his reputation on the plans...
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Europe’s answer to China’s Great Wall
LONDON: British and German researchers have united to create a European rival to the Great Wall of China. They have asked Unesco to give world heritage status to the chain of...
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Tracking Bengal tigers
DHAKA: Bangladesh and US wildlife experts have teamed up to place radio collars on Royal Bengal tigers living in a dense coastal mangrove forest to learn more about the habits of...
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London honours a hero
LONDON: For Ken Wiwa, the pain never ends. It comes from knowing that one morning his father was taken from a prison cell and executed — hanged at the fifth attempt...
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