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US has evidence against Iran: Bush
WASHINGTON, Feb 14: US President George Bush said on Wednesday he had evidence to prove that Iran was supplying weapons to Iraqi militias but he did not know if this was ordered by the “top echelons” of the Iranian government.... 
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US general says Sadr has fled to Iran
BAGHDAD, Feb 14: US defence officials said on Wednesday that their Iraqi nemesis, the radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, had likely fled for Iran ahead of a planned military crackdown on sectarian violence....
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India, China, Russia call for fair world order
NEW DELHI, Feb 14: The foreign ministers of India, China and Russia called on Wednesday for a more balanced world order, while insisting their day-long meeting was not ganging up on any superpower, such as the United States.India''s...
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BD amends emergency powers rules
DHAKA, Feb 14: The interim government of Bangladesh on Wednesday amended Emergency Powers Rules, stipulating that any one convicted in any case under the rule in question will not be qualified...
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UK, US worst place for children: Unicef
LONDON, Feb 14: The United Nations children''s fund damned Britain and the United States as the worst places for children to live among wealthy nations, in a report which caused widespread soul-searching on Wednesday....
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Lebanese remember Hariri
BEIRUT, Feb 14: Tens of thousands of flag-waving Lebanese massed in the heart of Beirut on Wednesday to mark the murder committed two years ago, of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, with security high after deadly bus bombings....
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Powerful wireless Internet soon
BARCELONA, Feb 14: Later this year an unfamiliar radiowave will blanket five US cities when a new wireless Internet service backed by some of the biggest technology groups in the world...
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Winter''s biggest snowstorm in US
WASHINGTON, Feb 14: The most powerful snowstorm of the season pummelled the US on Wednesday, sticking an icy dagger into the heart of Valentine''s Day and slowing the federal government in Washington....
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Afghan policemen in the line of fire
QALAT (Afghanistan): “Go, go, go!” shouts a burly American as dishevelled Afghan men leap off the back of a truck and uncomfortably assume the pose of a policeman carrying a rifle....
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The plight of Hindu widows
LOS ANGELES: “Nobody should be a stranger to love,” Mahatma Gandhi once said. For writer-director Deepa Mehta, the Indian independence leader’s mournful sentiment imbued a seven-year professional journey — the making of her latest film, “Water” — with solemn purpose....
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‘Privatisation’ in Nepal violates right to health
KATHMANDU: Hiring a private firm to manage the drinking water system in Nepal’s capital violates the right to health guarantee in the country’s interim constitution, activists are set to argue before the Supreme Court....
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‘Destroyer of sin’ is overflowing with filth
ALLAHABAD: Among believers, the river has many names: The Pure. Destroyer of Sin. Light Amid the Darkness of Ignorance. But mostly they call it “Ganga Ma” -- Mother Ganges -- and they worship it with a blinding intensity....
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A mother gives up her son
SRINAGAR: Parveena Ahanger searched for her son for 16 years in graveyards, security camps, and police stations across the held Kashmir....
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Defections to ruling party changing Lankan politics
COLOMBO: As the government contemplates entertaining more members of the Opposition United National Party (UNP) who are likely to cross over shortly to the UPFA, the Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)...
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