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US reviewing space ties with China
WASHINGTON, Feb 3: The United States said on Friday it was re-evaluating possible space cooperation with China, including joint moon exploration, following Beijing’s recent anti-satellite weapon test.... 
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442 Russian fishermen rescued from ice floes
VLADIVOSTOK (Russia), Feb 3: A total of 442 fishermen, many of them drunk, were rescued on Saturday from ice floes off the island of Sakhalin in eastern Russia after a massive ice sheet broke from the shore, officials said....
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2,500 birds die in Britain bird flu outbreak
LONDON, Feb 3: An outbreak of bird flu on a farm run by Europe’s biggest turkey manufacturer Bernard Matthews has killed 2,500 birds, government officials said on Saturday....
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Chirac calls for ‘genuine’ UN agency on Environment
PARIS, Feb 3: French President Jacques Chirac called on Saturday for a powerful UN environmental agency to reinforce international control over the planet....
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US contributes little to global warming, claims official
WASHINGTON, Feb 3: The Bush administration played down the US contribution to world climate change on Friday and called for a “global discussion” after a UN report blamed humans for much of the warming over the past 50 years....
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Killing of Osama’s relative ‘political’
DUBAI, Feb 3: The killing in Madagascar of a Saudi brother-in-law of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was politically motivated and Madagascar “sold him” to intelligence services, his brother claimed in remarks published on Saturday....
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US to help boost Abbas force: documents
JERUSALEM, Feb 3: The United States will expand assistance to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to include about 8,500 members of his national security forces and possibly 1,000 Fatah fighters based in Jordan, US documents show....
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Top scientist jailed for child abuse
LOS ANGELES, Feb 3: A top US scientist known as the “father of gene therapy” was sentenced on Friday to 14 years in prison for molesting a young girl after his...
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19 labourers killed in Mumbai
MUMBAI, Feb 3: At least 19 labourers were crushed to death on Saturday when a wall they were building collapsed near Mumbai, police said....
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Bush not keen on changing tack over global warming
WASHINGTON: With the scientific evidence on global warming increasingly undeniable, US President George W. Bush has publicly embraced the issue of climate change....
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Hillary’s humour exposing ambitious women
LOS ANGELES: This week, Hillary Clinton tried out a joke in Iowa. “We face a lot of evil men,” she told voters in Davenport. “People like Osama bin Laden come to mind....
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State dept pressed to get tough with Chavez
WASHINGTON: High-ranking US officials and lawmakers are pressuring the State Department to take a more punishing tone with Venezuela, at the risk of tossing “red meat” to President Hugo Chavez, who now rules by decree, experts said....
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New Iraq plan may lead to disaster
WASHINGTON: Even if US President George W. Bush’s new Iraq plan succeeds militarily by quelling violence in Baghdad, US spy agencies warn, the war-torn country’s political leaders may fail to avert disaster....
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Climate study puts focus on US, China
PARIS: Fresh warnings about climate change issued by a UN scientific panel here on Friday place the onus for action on the United States and China, the world’s two biggest carbon polluters, analysts say....
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Terror plot: media see foul play
LONDON: Some media sources in the UK suspect that the new wave of scare stories about terror plots allegedly hatched by some British Muslims of Pakistani origin put in circulation recently...
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US-Iran confrontation causes anxiety to Arab states
DUBAI: As Iran vies with the United States for dominance in the Middle East, the smaller Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are left with several anxieties -- the consequences of a...
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