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| August 04, 2007 | Saturday | Rajab 19, 1428 |
10m homeless, marooned in South Asia floods
DHAKA, Aug 3: More than 200 people have died in monsoon flooding in South Asia in the last 10 days while more than 10 million remained marooned in their villages or...
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Indian opposition attacks nuke deal with US
NEW DELHI, Aug 3: India''s main opposition dismissed the Indo-US nuclear deal on Friday as “unsatisfactory” but atomic scientists gave it the thumbs up, saying the country''s strategic interests had been safeguarded....
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Terms agreed as US-India N-text unveiled
NEW DELHI, Aug 3: India and the United States unveiled the much-awaited text outlining their landmark civilian nuclear cooperation deal on Friday, and analysts said it appeared to have met New Delhi''s key demands....
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Congress must stay put until it passes law: Bush: Terrorism surveillance
WASHINGTON, Aug 3: President George Bush said on Friday that Congress must stay in session until it approves legislation modernizing a US law governing eavesdropping on foreigners....
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Iran offers to share nuclear technology with Arab states
RIYADH: Iran is ready to share its nuclear technology with Gulf countries and open its research facilities to create confidence among neighbours and to show them that the country was not...
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Hillary slams Obama’s stand
NEW YORK, Aug 3: Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has managed to shoot himself in the foot again while trying to upstage front runner Hilary Clinton in the US presidential pre-election nomination bid to to secure nomination of his party....
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France confirms arms deal with Libya
PARIS, Aug 3: Libya has reached a major arms deal with the European aerospace giant EADS, the first since a weapons embargo was lifted on Tripoli in 2004 and a potential source of embarrassment for French President Nicolas Sarkozy....
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Angry men get ahead, angry women penalised: study
NEW YORK: A man who gets angry at work may well be admired for it but a woman who shows anger in the workplace is liable to be seen as “out...
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Pledges, reality diverge for Asean
MANILA: Foreign ministers said all the right things this week about human rights and cooperation in Southeast Asia, but analysts warn the gap is large between their promises and the reality ahead....
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US economic worries may boost Democrat campaign
CINCINNATI: Evan as the Iraq war dominates US politics, persistent pocketbook concerns may mean more bad news for Republican candidates hoping to get relief from voters angry about Iraq....
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Russia seeks navy presence in Mediterranean
MOSCOW: Russia should have a permanent naval presence in the Mediterranean, the head of its navy said on Friday, mirroring the military ambitions of the Soviet Union....
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Reports of Sri Lanka missing overhyped, says minister
MANILA: Reports of hundreds of disappearances in Sri Lanka are over-hyped and they can be explained by poor record-keeping rather than sinister activities, the country''s foreign minister said on Friday....
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Bad bosses get promoted
NEW YORK: How do people get ahead in the workplace? One way seems to be by making their subordinates miserable, according to a study released on today....
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Karzai to meet Bush at Camp David
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai is due to meet his US counterpart George W. Bush at the weekend for talks likely to be overshadowed by the Taliban''s capture of 21 South Korean aid workers....
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Hathaway felt pressure of ‘Becoming Jane’
LOS ANGELES: She has acted opposite stars like Meryl Streep and in hit movies including “Brokeback Mountain,” but for Anne Hathaway, playing British writer Jane Austen in film drama “Becoming Jane” was so great, she almost quit....
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Man inside a replica of US sub held
NEW YORK: A man inside a replica of a US Revolutionary War submarine was arrested on Friday after police found the strange-looking vessel partly submerged in a security zone near the docked Queen Mary 2....
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Idi Amin’s son jailed for London gang attack
LONDON: A son of the later former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin was jailed earlier this year over his role in a brutal murder in London, it was revealed Friday after reporting restrictions were lifted....
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