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Bombers were on Saudi wanted list: Attack on oil complex
MANAMA, Feb 26: Two suicide bombers killed in a foiled attack on the world’s biggest oil processing complex were on a list of the Saudi government’s most-wanted extremists, the official Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday.... 
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Hamas denies suggesting it may recognise Israel
GAZA, Feb 26: Hamas’s prime minister-designate Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday denied he had suggested the Palestinian Islamist group might one day recognise Israel, saying there was only a possibility of achieving a long-term truce....
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Oil-hungry Asia stays friendly with Iran
TOKYO, Feb 26: With the tone rising by the day between Iran and the West over Tehran’s nuclear drive, Asia is staying cool, preserving warm ties with the Islamic republic whose oil it desperately needs....
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Hong Kong bans French poultry
PARIS, Feb 26: France stepped up measures on Sunday to contain the spread of deadly bird flu, as Hong Kong joined Japan in banning poultry imports from the first European Union member to register the disease on a farm....
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Sadr calls for unity among Iraqis
BASRA, Feb 26: Shia religious scholar Muqtada al-Sadr returned to Iraq on Sunday, calling for unity among Sunnis and Shias following bombing of holy shrines of Imam Ali Naqi (AS) and...
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Duma passes sweeping anti-terror legislation
MOSCOW, Feb 26: Russia’s lower house of parliament approved on Sunday a sweeping new anti-terrorism law defining terms under which the military may shoot down hijacked passenger planes and hit terrorist targets abroad....
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Dubai Ports ready to wait for US review
DUBAI, Feb 26: Dubai Ports World is willing to wait 45 days to take over operations at six major US ports to give authorities time for a security review, a source close to the Arab ports operator said on Sunday....
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First bird flu case in Geneva
GENEVA, Feb 26: Switzerland confirmed on Sunday its first outbreak of avian flu in a wild duck on the shores of Geneva, near the city’s famous jet d’eau fountain....
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Ramses II statues discovered
CAIRO, Feb 26: Statues weighing up to five tonnes and thought to be of one of ancient Egypt’s greatest pharaohs, Ramses II, have been found northeast of Cairo, Egypt’s Supreme Antiquities Council said in a statement on Sunday....
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Using terror to fight terror
LONDON: Almost two years ago, I sat in a room for most of a day in a house in north London with three men who seemed to have achieved the impossible....
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I don’t destroy liberties
LONDON: There is a charge, crafted by parts of the right wing and now taken up by parts of the left, that New Labour is authoritarian, in particular, that I am....
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A man impatient for change
LONDON: Imagine you are the Prince of Wales, on a British Airways flight to Hong Kong. Paddy Ashdown (a former leader of the Liberal Democrats), you notice, is in first class....
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