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Troops given shoot-to-kill orders in New Orleans: Gunfire, blasts precede Bush visit NEW ORLEANS, Sept 2: The authorities in Louisiana state on Friday deployed 7,000 soldiers, including 300 Iraq-hardened ones, to New Orleans with shoot-to-kill orders as the storied city fell deeper into...		Losses estimated at $100 billion WASHINGTON, Sept 2: Economic losses from Hurricane Katrina’s deadly carnage could top 100 billion dollars, forecasters said on Friday as oil and port operators battled to resume operations battered by the terrifying storm....
Models predicted disaster: experts WASHINGTON, Sept 2: Virtually everything that has happened in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina struck was predicted by experts and in computer models, so emergency management specialists wonder why authorities were so unprepared....		Message fuels row in UK over fallout from Iraq invasion LONDON, Sept 2: A message from the grave left by one of the four London bombers fuelled a row on Friday over whether Britain’s military role in Iraq has increased the threat of terrorist attacks here....
Britain proposes law on incitement to terror UNITED NATIONS, Sept 2: Britain on Thursday circulated a draft UN Security Council resolution that would urge all nations to ban incitement of terrorist acts, expecting that the measure would be approved during the upcoming UN world summit....		Israel not to abandon controversial project JERUSALEM, Sept 2: Israel has frozen but will not abandon a controversial project to link its largest West Bank settlement to annexed east Jerusalem following sharp criticism from Washington, officials said on Friday....
Tussle over estate unearths old coins KOLKATA, Sept 2: A tussle over the estate of Priyamvada Birla, the widow of a leading Indian industrialist, has led to the discovery of a collection of ancient gold coins and other artefacts, a lawyer said Friday....		14 killed, 100 hurt in China typhoon SHANGHAI, Sept 2: Fourteen people died and 15 were missing on Friday after Typhoon Talim’s whipping rain and winds walloped China’s east coast and Taiwan, causing widespread damage....
Blacks facing discrimination: Jackson BATON ROUGE, Sept 2: Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson on Friday fired off a fierce attack on President George Bush, and suggested black people were being locked out of top relief roles after Hurricane Katrina....		Russian UN official arrested UNITED NATIONS, Sept 2: The chairman of the United Nations budget committee was arrested by the FBI on Thursday on money laundering charges after the UN Secretary General lifted his immunity on the American government’s request....
Saddam’s trial next month BAGHDAD, Sept 2: The trial of Iraq’s former president Saddam Hussein will open in the second half of next month, an official said on Friday. The official said Saddam’s trial ‘will...		Katrina comes home to roost WASHINGTON: Biblical in its uncontrolled rage and scope, the storm has left millions of Americans to scavenge for food and shelter, and hundreds reportedly dead. With its main levee broken, the...
Ivory Coast gears up for election ABIDJAN: The slight man sitting in the lobby of an expensive hotel in Ivory Coast’s main city was wearing a red T-shirt and a Manchester United baseball cap....		Dubya adjudged ‘off the mark’ — yet again! TOKYO: Sixty years after a ruined Japan surrendered to the United States and its allies, ending the Second World War, the nation has become a prosperous democracy but experts are sceptical at US President George W....
Trinidad takes the bilingual plunge PORT-OF-SPAIN (Trinidad and Tobago): After 200 years of turning its back on geography, this English-speaking former British colony is searching for its Latin American soul. Just seven miles off the coast...		S. African farmers clean up with ‘green sugar’ ESHOWE: From the air, sections of South Africa’s sugar country resemble a vast green carpet that has been gently rolled across the landscape. But environmentalists say this bucolic scene is deceptive...
High cost of revamping air traffic system NEW YORK: US business and leisure travellers are taking to the skies again, but experts say their flights will be more expensive, less safe and more likely to be delayed without an overhaul of the air traffic system....