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Anti-squatter drive sparks riots in Copenhagen
COPENHAGEN, March 2: Police in Copenhagen were braced on Friday for a possible second night of riots as radical activists vowed to continue their fight against the eviction of squatters from an underground cultural centre.... 
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Western tourists feared kidnapped in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, March 2: More than a dozen Western tourists believed to be British and French nationals were feared kidnapped in northeastern Ethiopia on Friday....
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Fayed wins legal battle in Diana case
LONDON, March 2: The father of Princess Diana''s lover won a significant legal battle on Friday when the High Court decided that the inquest into their deaths in a Paris car crash 10 years ago should be heard by a jury....
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Probe demanded against Rajapakse: Secret pacts with LTTE
COLOMBO, March 2: Two former ministers who were sacked by President Mahinda Rajapakse last month are demanding a parliamentary probe into an alleged secret pact between the president and the LTTE, purportedly made just before the November 2005 presidential election....
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Indian soldier to die for killing officer
New Delhi, March 2: An Indian Army court on Friday awarded the death sentence to a personnel for killing an officer, prompting fresh questions about why incidence of delinquent violence was increasing in the armed forces....
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Canadian lawmakers split over hijab
OTTAWA, March 2: A young girl''s expulsion from a Quebec soccer tournament this week for wearing a head scarf has split lawmakers, according to reports on Friday....
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Germany proposes talks on Nato missile shield WIESBADEN (Germany), March 2: Germany called on Friday for talks on creating a Nato missile defence shield for Europe, a day after the United States vowed to press ahead with its system without alliance approval....
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Negotiations may ease Iraq, Lebanon crises: Ahmadinejad’s Riyadh visit
RIYADH: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Saudi Arabia on Saturday could lead to agreements between the two regional heavyweights that would ease the conflicts in Lebanon and Iraq, experts say....
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China, US chart parallel courses on key issues
WASHINGTON: National interests make strange bedfellows. There could be no better example than the warming diplomatic relationship between the United States and China, two old antagonists....
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Conscripts to boost Eritrea’s defence
ASMARA: For Eritrea, a nation that has spent most of the past half-century in bloody battles against arch-foe and large neighbour Ethiopia, war worries are never far from people’s minds....
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Fear drives world economic system: Qadhafi
SEBHA (Libya): Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi criticised the world financial system as a dictatorship based on fear on today but said Libya’s only pragmatic choice after sanctions was to accept the unfair reality of world trade....
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Young designers bring new ideas
PARIS: Fashion is having an Yves Saint Laurent moment....
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Family heart disease linked to gene defect
WASHINGTON: Iranian and US scientists have identified a rare gene defect which has triggered early heart disease among more than 25 members of a large Iranian family, according to a study published on Thursday....
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Holi prompts health, security warnings
NEW DELHI: India’s Holi festival, when people spray red, silver and yellow powder at each other to mark the start of spring, may be a good time to stay indoors if police and doctors are to be believed.Holi,...
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Moroccan king pardons 9,000 on daughter’s birth
RABAT: Nearly nine thousand inmates including more than 200 foreigners were being released from Moroccan prisons starting on Friday under a pardon granted by King Mohammed VI to mark the birth of his daughter this week....
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Iranian hijacker converts to Judaism
JERUSALEM: An Iranian flight attendant who hijacked an Iranian airliner and flew it to Israel 12 years ago has converted to Judaism, an Israeli newspaper reported on Friday....
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Blind pilot’s adventure
LONDON: A blind adventurer is bidding to fly from Britain to Australia in a bid to raise one million pounds ($1.9m) o fight preventable blindness, he said on Friday....
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Amitabh’s Casanova roles
MUMBAI: Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan insists that his roles in two new films in which he falls in love with women significantly younger than himself are not indications of a mid-life crisis....
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BBC, YouTube sign deal
LONDON: The BBC said on Friday it had started showing promotional trailers for new programmes and clips from old hits on Google''s YouTube in a bid to reach new audiences and boost sales at its commercial arm....
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Killer painkiller
CHICAGO: An illegal lab in Mexico produced some of the powerful painkillers that killed dozens of people in Chicago last year who ingested with heroin, according to newly unsealed indictments....
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