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Arabs link peace with statehood, DPs return: Summit spells out terms to Israel
ALGIERS, March 22: Arab leaders spelled out conditions for peace with Israel at the opening here on Tuesday of a two-day summit expected to revive a plan to normalize ties with... 
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Pakistan is a ‘profitless’ partner, says Pressler
NEW YORK, March 22: Pakistani American groups on Tuesday expressed outrage at former Senator Larry Pressler’s article in Monday’s New York Times in which he termed Pakistan a profitless partner. Mr...
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Arab Christians urged to disown Greek Church: Sale of Jerusalem land
RAMALLAH, March 22: The Greek Orthodox Church was flung into a fresh crisis on Tuesday as Palestinian MPs voted for Arab Orthodox Christians to secede from the Greek patriarchy following its...
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Visa dispute not to affect ties: US
WASHINGTON, March 22: The United States has rejected speculations that the denial of visa to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi could jeopardize Washington’s relations with New Delhi. “It is a specific...
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Kyrghyz leader remains defiant
BISHKEK, March 22: Kyrgyz President Askar Akayev, facing violent protests in the south over an election the opposition says was rigged, on Tuesday defiantly backed the poll as legitimate but ruled...
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Israel hands over town to PA
HEBRON, March 22: Israel dismantled a major checkpoint in the northern West Bank district of Tulkarem on Tuesday, signalling a transfer of security control to the Palestinian Authority (PA). The giant...
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10 die in Minnesota school shooting
BEMIDJI (USA), March 22: A high school student shot dead nine people and then killed himself on Monday at Minnesota’s Red Lake Indian Reservation in the worst school shooting since the...
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Bid to keep woman alive suffers setback
PINELLAS PARK, March 22: A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request from the parents of Florida woman Terri Schiavo to reinsert her feeding tube, dealing a blow to attempts by...
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‘Tea pill’ developed
JORHAT, March 22: Indian scientists said on Tuesday they have developed a “tea pill” which can be carried in the pocket to be chewed when desired for the same refreshing effect...
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Bush puts faith over fact
WASHINGTON: The interference by the White House in the case of Terri Schiavo — the woman at the centre of America’s latest right-to-die controversy — marks another milestone in President Bush’s...
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Military muscle boosts Mugabe’s prospects
HARARE: Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe is known as a snappy dresser — a man who swapped the fatigues of a guerrilla commander for the business suits of civilian office with a...
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Kyrghyzstan risks civil war, say analysts
MOSCOW: Violent opposition protests in Kyrghyzstan could plunge the former Soviet republic into civil war rather than bring about a peaceful Ukrainian-style change of power, analysts said on Monday. With unrest...
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Tiger future not bright in India
SARISKA (India): It was once one of the favourite hunting grounds of India’s royalty. Flamboyant maharajahs in natty breeches combed the sprawling Sariska forest nestled in the low lying Aravali hills...
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NYT proposes Nobel Prize for Sistani
WASHINGTON: Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, spiritual leader of Iraq’s Shias, should be given the Nobel Peace Prize for helping smoothe was road toward democracy in the country, influential New York Times...
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Scientists battle ‘dark energy’ theory
ROME: A small group of physicists are battling what they see as the cosmological equivalent to the bogeyman: an enormous dark force, that nobody has ever seen, driving galaxies apart. Conventional...
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UN reform plan gets mixed reviews
UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s radical blueprint to restructure the world body — as spelled out in a landmark 62-page report released on Monday — has received mixed reviews from...
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