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Flu pandemic is a matter of time:WHO
GENEVA, Nov 7: A three-day council of war on avian influenza opened here on Monday to warnings that a flu pandemic was inevitable, could kill millions and inflict up to 800... 
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UN summons Assad’s brother-in-law
BEIRUT, Nov 7: UN investigators have summoned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s brother-in-law to face more questioning over the killing of a former Lebanese prime minister, a Lebanese political source said on Monday....
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China shuts down poultry markets
BEIJING, Nov 7: Beijing’s municipal government has ordered live poultry and pet bird markets to be shut down in an attempt to curb the spread of bird flu, officials said on Monday, a day after China announced three possible human cases....
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Saarc officials start arriving in Dhaka
DHAKA, Nov 7: Senior officials from India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and the Maldives have reached Dhaka for a pre-summit programming committee’s meeting to be held on Tuesday....
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US govt was given ‘intentionally misleading’ report: DIA
WASHINGTON, Nov 7: US military intelligence warned the Bush administration as early as February 2002 that its key source on Al Qaeda’s relationship with Iraq had provided ‘intentionally misleading’ data, according to a declassified report made public on Sunday....
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Fatwa sparks controversy in France
PARIS, Nov 7: France’s main Muslim organizations feuded on Monday over a fatwa one group issued against rioting after officials suggested militants might be fanning unrest across the country....
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6 policemen killed in Iraq car bombing
BAGHDAD, Nov 7: A suicide car bomber killed nine people, including six Iraqi policemen, in the southern Dora district of Baghdad on Monday. A further 10 people were wounded in the...
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Author Fowles dies
LONDON, Nov 7: British novelist John Fowles, author of ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ and ‘The Magus’, has died at the age of 79, his publisher said on Monday....
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Marxists protest US-India exercises
KALAIKUNDA (India), Nov 7: Tens of thousands of Communist activists thronged a military air base on Monday to protest at joint exercises by the Indian and US air forces, witnesses said....
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Erdogan links riots to scarf ban
ANKARA, Nov 7: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan linked the riots in France to a ban on Muslim headscarves in the country’s schools, drawing opposition charges that he was encouraging protests against a similar ban in Turkey....
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Bush says ‘we do not torture suspects’
PANAMA CITY, Nov 7: The United States will do what it takes to protect itself but ‘we do not torture’, President Bush said on Monday in response to criticism of reported secret CIA prisons and the handling of terrorism suspects....
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Ruling party machine dominates Egypt vote
CAIRO: A hint of change enlivened Egyptian politics this year when President Hosni Mubarak’s opponents awoke from a long slumber and took to the streets in protest at 24 years of government by one president and one party....
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Europe on guard after France riots
BERLIN: Images of French ghettos in flames are causing discomfort across Europe and have raised fears the violence could spread across borders. London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels and other cities with large...
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Israel strives for better image on Arab media
AL QUDS: “I cannot enter into this so long as this criminal is on your screen,” a Hamas spokesman calmly told Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera....
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Unrest is the product of years of racism
LONDON: In late 1991, after violent riots between youths and police scarred the suburbs of Lyon, Alain Touraine, the French sociologist, predicted: “It will only be a few years before we...
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Burundi’s ex-child fighters seek fresh start
BUJUMBURA: Jean-Noel was 12 years old when Tutsi militiamen scooped him off the street and made him lug heavy ammunition as they fought Hutu rebels on the outskirts of Burundi’s capital....
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