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1,000 killed in Uzbekistan unrest, says HR body VIENNA, May 19: Uzbek security forces may have gunned down up to 1,000 civilians in the recent unrest in Andijan, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights and the Human Rights...		US move likely to trigger arms race in space WASHINGTON: President George Bush is expected to issue a directive in the next few weeks giving the US air force a green light for the development of space weapons, potentially triggering...
8 killed in attack on house in Mosul BAGHDAD, May 19: Gunmen killed an oil ministry official on Thursday and escalating violence claimed at least 21 more lives, fuelling fears Iraq may be moving towards civil war. In the worst incident, eight people were killed in the northern city...		Woman in US receives Quran with death threat SAN FRANCISCO, May 19: An American Muslim woman, Azza Basarudin, who ordered a copy of the holy Quran from Amazon.com, received one with slurs and ‘Death to all Muslims’ scrawled across...
New Delhi’s dredging plan alarms Colombo NEW DELHI, May 19: India’s cabinet approved on Thursday a project to dredge a key shipping route between the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean, prompting concern from Sri Lanka. “It...		Threat to murder Italian hostage KABUL, May 19: A man claiming to have abducted an Italian aid worker in Kabul threatened to kill her on Thursday unless his demands were met, even though Afghan officials said...
Patient-specific stem cells created: experts WASHINGTON, May 19: A team of South Korean scientists has developed the first lines of patient-specific stem cells, designed to match the DNA of a specific person, according to a study...		US role in Iraq may last ‘many years’ NEW YORK, May 19: The US military commanders in Baghdad and Washington gave a foreboding new assessment of the war in Iraq, adding to the mood of anxiety that prompted Secretary...
Five Indians rescued from captivity NAIROBI, May 19: Kenyan Immigration Minister Linah Chebii Kilimo personally led police to the rescue of five Indian women immigrants who were being forced to sing in a plush nightclub and...		Army officer blamed for Assam kidnap GUWAHATI, May 19: India’s military is probing charges that an army officer masterminded ransom kidnappings of tea planters with the help of tribal separatists in the remote northeast, the army said...
51 miners missing CHENGDE, May 19: Fifty-one miners are missing and feared dead after a gas explosion on Thursday ripped through a coal mine near Chengde city in northern China’s Hebei province. “At around...		US, Britain call for impartial probe into Uzbekistan killing SUZAK (Kyrgyzstan): As the door to his prison cell was battered open on Friday night, Odil Maksataliev said, he jumped back in surprise. Eight armed men burst in. Maksataliev had never...
Gaza moves into unsettling times GUSH KATIF (Gaza Strip): Israel’s government last week postponed the implementation of its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip for three weeks, ostensibly to take into account an annual Jewish period of...		Nato on alert to provide assistance in Darfur DARFUR: Nato ordered its planners on Wednesday to begin urgently drawing up proposals to help out in Darfur, where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and more than a...
Cash woes threaten to impede tsunami reconstruction UNITED NATIONS: The halting flow of cash from international donors and lack of coordination among non-governmental organisations (NGOs) could slow down reconstruction efforts of countries devastated by last December’s Indian Ocean...		Drought strikes hard in southern China QINGYUAN (China): It’s rice-planting season in China’s southern province of Guangdong, but despite the landscape of flooded fields dotted with green seedlings, Lian is worried. “There is not enough water. There’s...
US, N. Korea hold direct meeting WASHINGTON: The United States held a rare direct meeting with North Korea last week to urge the hardline communist state to return to talks on ending its nuclear weapons drive, US...		Galloway says he smoked Cuban cigar in US senate LONDON: Maverick British politician George Galloway said Wednesday he broke a US trade sanction by smoking a Cuban cigar in Washington where he clashed with senators over charges he received Iraqi...
UN seeks more funding UNITED NATIONS: Underscoring that a major transformation of the United Nations was underway, a top aide to Secretary General Kofi Annan told a US congressional panel on Thursday that the world...		Quintillion clock PARIS: Japanese scientists say they have made a technical breakthrough in the quest to perfect the world’s most accurate clock, a timepiece that would lose only one-quintillionth (a million-million-millionth) of a...