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US knows of Al Qaeda hideouts in Pakistan: TV
KABUL, June 23: The US military on Friday dismissed a media report citing intelligence suspicions that senior Al Qaeda leaders were hiding in Pakistan and that the Afghan president’s brother had ties to drug trafficking as being outdated.... 
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Nine policemen wounded in Kashmir blasts
SRINAGAR, June 23: Nine policemen and eight civilians were wounded on Friday in two separate grenade blasts in occupied Kashmir, while the army shot dead two militants in the region, police said....
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US secretly probes financial records, admit officials
WASHINGTON, June 23: The US government has secretly monitored banking transactions around the globe since the Sept 11, 2001, attacks, top officials said on Friday, defending the program as a ‘lawful’ part of the ‘war on terror’....
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Swift: the network in focus
BRUSSELS, June 23: SWIFT, the financial network at the heart of the latest US privacy row, is run from a small commuter town south of Brussels but deals with trillions of dollars in daily worldwide transactions....
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Rival militias clash in Baghdad: 22 killed in explosions
BAGHDAD, June 23: A daytime gun battle in the capital between Sunni and Shia militiamen prompted the Iraqi government to tighten the Baghdad curfew on Friday as 22 people died in two bombings....
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Australia eying oil in E.Timor: ex-official
PARIS, June 23: A retired Portuguese general who once commanded a UN force in East Timor claimed on Friday that Australia had provoked the crisis there in order to take control of the fledgling country....
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Swedish journalist shot dead in Somalia
MOGADISHU, June 23: A gunman shot dead a Swedish cameraman covering a pro-Islamist rally on Friday in Mogadishu, just weeks after its new rulers said they had pacified one of the world’s most lawless cities after 15 years of anarchy....
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Bush security detail fails to spot activist
VIENNA, June 23: A peace activist remained for 18 hours unobserved by the elite security detail surrounding the hotel where US President George Bush stayed in Vienna this week, an Austrian newspaper reported on Friday....
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4 bodies found near Kandahar
KANDAHAR, June 23: The decapitated bodies of four Afghan men were discovered days after armed men abducted them, an official said on Friday. A Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the killings....
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France launches rival to Google Earth
PARIS, June 23: France on Friday unveiled a new website offering high-resolution aerial imagery of its entire territory, in a bid to mirror the planetary success of the US pioneer in the field, Google Earth....
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Iraq is a full-scale military disaster
LONDON: ‘Quandary for the Democrats’, said the newsreader early on Wednesday morning on the World Service (the BBC radio channel that covers foreign news: a couple of hours later Radio 4...
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A saner approach to a missile test
WASHINGTON: For 1,971 days the Bush administration ignored North Korea’s missile programme as unimportant and unthreatening to the security of the United States. Then it woke up....
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Iraqi govt considering amnesty for guerillas
WASHINGTON: The new Iraqi government is considering giving amnesty to some guerillas, including those who committed attacks against the United States, other coalition forces and the Iraqi military....
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‘Outside of the box’ thinking needed on Iran
WASHINGTON: Sometime in the next several months, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice or a senior colleague is likely to sit down at a negotiating table with representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran....
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George Bush draws a troubling analogy
BUDAPEST: One of the perks of being president of the United States is travelling to the post-communist democracies of Central Europe, basking in the rare appreciation of US foreign policy and...
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Election in Mexico: poor voters dined and bullied
ECATEPEC (Mexico): Want to add a room to your house? Take home a bicycle or container of gasoline? Better yet, qualify for a free-meals programme?...
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