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US, China to discuss S. Asia’s N-scenario: Hu-Bush summit tomorrow
WASHINGTON, April 18: The new nuclear arrangement in South Asia will be one of the subjects President Bush may discuss with the Chinese president when he meets him on Thursday, diplomatic sources told Dawn.... 
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Many Arabs favour nuclear Iran
CAIRO: The United States found little support in the Arab world when it invaded Iraq in 2003. In a military confrontation with Tehran over Iran’s nuclear programme, it should not expect any more....
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160,000 in danger as Danube overflows
BELGRADE, April 18: A swollen tributary of the Danube river rose to a record level in Hungary and Serbia on Tuesday, threatening 160,000 people and 50,000 homes as south-eastern Europe battled massive floods....
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Rumsfeld doing a fine job, says Bush
WASHINGTON, April 18: US President George Bush said on Tuesday that his embattled defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, is doing ‘a fine job’, rebuffing calls from several retired generals that Mr Rumsfeld resign....
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Time for China, US to ‘boost energy ties’
WASHINGTON, April 18: Record high crude oil prices above $70 a barrel could drive the United States and China — the world’s two biggest oil users — to seek common ground...
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Mystery over Iranian official’s US visit
WASHINGTON, April 18: A close aide to Iran’s top nuclear official is visiting arch foe the United States — at the height of a showdown between the West and Tehran over its controversial nuclear programme....
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Bush cites Lebanon as model for ME
WASHINGTON, April 18: US President George Bush said on Tuesday he wanted to see justice done in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al Hariri, after talks on Tuesday with Lebanon’s current prime minister....
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Daniel Pearl’s widow to work for magazine
NEW YORK, April 18: Mariane Pearl, the widow of the abducted and murdered US journalist Daniel Pearl, has signed up as a roving columnist for the lifestyle magazine Glamour, the New York Times reported on Monday....
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US city remembers 1906 earthquake
SAN FRANCISCO, April 18: Thousands of people crammed downtown San Francisco streets in the pre-dawn darkness on Tuesday to commemorate the ‘Great Quake’ that destroyed the city 100 years ago....
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Paper opposes Rumsfeld’s ouster
WASHINGTON, April 18: Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should have resigned when the Abu Ghraib prison scandal broke, but stepping down now under pressure from the military would set ‘an ugly precedent’, The Washington Post said on Tuesday....
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US fears of China fuel new arms projects
WASHINGTON: US fears of a rising China are spurring billions of dollars worth of weapons projects, from nuclear-fuelled attack submarines to fighter jets to destroyers....
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Darfur a tragedy on a vast scale
LONDON: “We send our grandmothers to collect the firewood. We know they will be beaten. But we have no choice; if we send our men, they will kill them....
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Pakistan was home to oldest dentists
ROME: Evidence has been found of the world’s oldest dentists, who drilled teeth to remove decay about 9,000 years ago. Treatment was carried out in an area of what is now...
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Attacks on Muslim sites rising in Spain
MADRID: An arson attack over the Easter weekend on a Muslim sanctuary in the Spanish city of Ceuta marked another step in what some experts fear is a growing incidence of Islamophobia in the country....
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