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Chad troops repulse rebel attack on capital
N’DJAMENA, April 13: Chad on Thursday claimed it had repulsed rebels from the capital seeking to oust President Idriss Deby Itno and blamed neighbouring Sudan for fomenting a coup attempt.... 
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India’s NZ envoy defies order to return home
NEW DELHI, April 13: India on Thursday publicly rebuked its ambassador to New Zealand after he defied an order to return home and accused him of spreading ‘scurrilous information’....
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Hostage-takers kill Saddam’s relative
AMMAN, April 13: A member of Saddam Hussein’s extended family has been killed in Iraq after being taken hostage. The man, 36-year-old Jamal Kamel Hassan, was the brother-in-law of two of Saddam’s daughters....
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Ex-US envoy opposes mly action against Iran
DOHA, April 13: A former US diplomat warned on Wednesday that a storm is gathering between Iran and the rest of the world after the announcement by its president that it...
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5 die as Indian actor’s funeral turns violent
BANGALORE, April 13: Police opened fire in India’s technology hub on Thursday, killing four people as tens of thousands of fans mourning the death of a film icon torched vehicles and attacked company offices....
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US generals say Rumsfeld should go
WASHINGTON, April 13: A fourth former US army general in less than a month called on the US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday to resign over his handling of the war in Iraq....
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Students show sweet tooth
TEHRAN, April 13: Students in an Iranian university are planning to celebrate a breakthrough in the nuclear drive by eating a huge yellow cake, a press report said on Thursday....
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Nepal police fire at lawyers
KATHMANDU, April 13: Police fired rubber bullets at hundreds of lawyers protesting King Gyanendra’s absolute rule on Thursday as Nepalese awaited a message to the nation by the monarch to see if he would reach out to opponents....
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15 killed in Baghdad car bomb explosion
BAGHDAD, April 13: A car bomb killed 15 people and injured 22 in a Baghdad neighbourhood on Thursday....
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Pakistanis believe in ‘coexistence’
WASHINGTON, April 13: Terrorism may make the country look bad abroad but it’s not an overwhelming factor in Pakistan where the majority believes in a peaceful coexistence with all the nations, says Hameed Haroon, CEO of the Dawn Group of Newspapers....
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Militants storm Palestinian PM’s office
RAMALLAH, April 13: Masked gunmen from the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades on Thursday briefly occupied the Palestinian prime minister’s West Bank offices to demand benefits from the cash-strapped Hamas government....
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Indian envoy defies order to return home
NEW DELHI, April 13: India on Thursday publicly rebuked its ambassador to New Zealand after he defied an order to return home and accused him of spreading ‘scurrilous information’....
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Jackson near deal to avert bankruptcy
NEW YORK, April 13: Michael Jackson is close to a deal that would help him to avert bankruptcy by refinancing his debts and possibly selling part of his interest in scores...
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Moussaoui slams attorneys
ALEXANDRIA (US), April 13: Al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui lashed out at his own defence team on Thursday as he began testifying before a jury that will decide whether he should be put to death....
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Iran showdown a test for Israeli lobby
WASHINGTON: One month after the publication by two of the most influential international relations scholars in the United States of essay on the Israel lobby, their thesis that the lobby exercises...
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Beckett’s 100th birthday observed
PARIS: In a scene which might have appealed to Samuel Beckett’s sense of the absurd, French and Irish fans marked the writer’s 100th birthday on Thursday at his grave topped with a bowler hat, flowers and a banana....
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Turkey’s EU problems bad omen for Cyprus
ATHENS: Turkey is on collision course with the European Union over a refusal to open its ports and airports to Cypriot traffic, in a high-stakes dispute that threatens set back a Cyprus solution and relations with Greece....
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Insecurity driving Iraqis out of country
BAGHDAD: Tens of thousands of Iraqis have fled their homes or the country since the bombing of shrines of Imam Ali Naqi and Imam Hassan Askari in Samarra on February 23....
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Prodi likely to be lame duck premier
ROME: If winning the election proved hard for Romano Prodi, governing might prove mission impossible. Provisional results said Prodi’s centre-left bloc had gained clear control of the lower house of parliament...
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Saudi prince eyes reform through new university
RIYADH: A Saudi foundation plans to launch next year a private university it hopes will help reform the strict kingdom’s much-criticised education system....
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