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China, BD sign nine accords DHAKA, April 7: Dhaka and Beijing on Thursday signed nine agreements on the first day of the Chinese premier’s visit to Bangladesh. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived on Thursday afternoon in a two-day state visit...		Pfizer ordered to withdraw Bextra from market WASHINGTON, April 7: US health officials on Thursday asked Pfizer to withdraw arthritis drug Bextra from the market due to potential health risks, and ordered new warning labels for others in...
Pope’s will indicates he considered resigning VATICAN CITY, April 7: In the year 2000, Pope John Paul wrestled with the question of whether to resign after leading the Roman Catholic Church into the new millennium, his last...		Mugabe defies EU ban to attend funeral ROME, April 7: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, a devout Roman Catholic, defied European Union sanctions imposed after a president poll in 2002 when he arrived to Rome to attend the funeral...
Danes abused 10,000 Germans: historian COPENHAGEN, April 7: Some 10,000 German children who fled unaccompanied to Denmark as World War II drew to a close in the spring of 1945 were subjected to “inhumane treatment”, according...		Syria begins final phase of pullout from Lebanon BEIRUT, April 7: Syria began on Thursday the final phase of a troop pullout ending a 29-year military presence in Lebanon, as consultations for a new cabinet to oversee long-awaited parliamentary...
WHO seeks heavy investment in healthcare GENEVA, April 7: One woman still dies every minute in pregnancy or childbirth, while 20 young children succumb to easily preventable disease every 60 seconds, the World Health Organization (WHO) said...		Fake bomb taken into Windsor Castle LONDON, April 7: Yet another gremlin has gate-crashed the planning for Saturday’s wedding of Prince Charles to Camilla Parker Bowles, this time in the form of an undercover reporter taking a...
Minister calls Russian tourists ‘boorish’ ANKARA, April 7: Turkey’s new tourism minister apologized to Russia on Thursday after he came under fire for calling Russian tourists ‘boorish’....		Annan vows to make UN more transparent UNITED NATIONS, April 7: In a rare staff meeting, Secretary General Kofi Annan has vowed to make the UN more accountable and transparent, and said he wanted “us all to be...
Non-Muslims barred from Jerusalem site AL QUDS: Israel will ban non-Muslims from a sensitive Al Aqsa mosque on Sunday amid fears Jewish militants could provoke bloodshed aimed at stalling Israel’s planned withdrawal from Gaza, officials said...		Vatican, China may restore ties BEIJING: The death of Pope John Paul II, a lifetime crusader against communism, has sparked speculation of an imminent diplomatic thaw between the Vatican and mainland China — more than 50...
Politics in red robes WASHINGTON: President Bush, a militant evangelical Protestant, has lowered the American flag to half-staff for the first time at the death of a pope. Also for the first time, a US...		Taliban just won’t go away SHAHI KOT (Afghanistan): There was too much defeatism in the tea house for young Atiqullah’s taste. He was sure the Taliban would be back....
Iraqi govt pitted against US army WASHINGTON: One of the first orders of business for the new Iraqi government under Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani and Shia Islamist Ibrahim Jaafari will be to strike a deal with the...		Australia finds Sino-US tensions unsettling CANBERRA: It has been obvious to Canberra watchers for several months that there is one issue on which conservative prime minister John Howard doesn’t see eye to eye with President George...