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1971 tragedy was avoidable: Javed
DHAKA, Sept 23: Justice Javed Iqbal, a former judge of the Supreme Court, believes that Pakistan could have avoided dismemberment had the politicians been on the ‘right path’.... 
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Saudis seek Interpol help to trace 18 militants
BERLIN/RIYADH, Sept 23: Saudi Arabia has given Interpol the names of 18 of its most wanted militant suspects and asked the world police agency to trace them, a senior Saudi security official said....
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Pentagon rebuffs pleas for 40,000 troops: Hurricane Rita
WASHINGTON, Sept 23: The Pentagon rebuffed requests for up to 40,000 extra troops for storm duty in Louisiana and Texas on Friday, but promised to help meet the states’ needs for fuel and other assistance in the face of Hurricane Rita....
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New Orleans flooded again
NEW ORLEANS, Sept 23: The hardest-hit part of New Orleans was flooded again on Friday as Hurricane Rita’s fierce winds pushed water over a fragile levee, less than a month after Hurricane Katrina submerged most of the city....
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Insurance loss estimated at 18 billion dollars
WASHINGTON, Sept 23: Hurricane Rita is likely to cause insured losses of between nine billion and 18 billion dollars from wind damage, a consulting firm said on Friday, while noting that the estimate may be revised....
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Meera says ‘my destiny is Hollywood’
LONDON, Sept 23: Pakistani film actress Meera on Friday shrugged off the outcry over a kissing scene she did for an Indian film....
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Pope Benedict elected after Argentine quit: cardinal
ROME, Sept 23: Joseph Ratzinger was elected Pope in April after his closest rival in the conclave, a cardinal from Argentina, indicated he did not want the responsibility, according to a secret account published by a magazine on Friday....
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Convert gets 15-year jail on terror charges
LONDON, Sept 23: A British convert to Islam was jailed for 15 years after being convicted here on Friday on two charges of possessing articles for use in terrorism....
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Texans flee Rita to Mexico’s crime city
NUEVO LAREDO, Sept 23: Thousands of jittery Texas residents piled into cars, trucks and buses and fled south of the Rio Grande on Friday, risking refuge in Mexico’s most violent city rather than face Hurricane Rita’s wrath....
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Cindy Sheehan’s protest strikes a chord with Iraqis
BAGHDAD: Khalda Khalaf feels Cindy Sheehan’s pain. She’s been there, too. Her 28-year-old son, Majid Khalid Kabi, died fighting on the opposite side in the same months-long stretch of clashes in 2004 between Shia militiamen and US soldiers in which Spec....
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Homilies won’t stop the hurricanes
WASHINGTON: First there was the deafening roar as Katrina bore down at 145 miles an hour on the Gulf coast of the United States. Then the eerie silence as New Orleans was turned into a giant ghost town....
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Party ends, hangover begins for Malaysian builders
KUALA LUMPUR: Construction worker Andi Suyandi is finishing up a building job in the Malaysian capital, perhaps his last for a while. “I don’t have any work lined up after this,”...
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The logic of colonial rule
LONDON: There is now near-universal agreement that the western occupation of Iraq has turned out to be an unmitigated disaster; first for the people of Iraq, second for the soldiers sent by politicians to die in a foreign land....
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Soldiers’ books show humour, horror
NEW YORK: Journalists, generals, historians, Iraqis and a former hostage have told their stories about Iraq, but now more than two years after American troops invaded, the flood of books by US soldiers has arrived....
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