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‘No volte-face on Kashmir’
MIL Oct 12, 2004 Author: Our Reporter
Pakistan denied that there had been any U-turn in its policy on the Kashmir issue and both sides were eager to solve this perennial problem to the satisfaction of all.
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US air attack in Fallujah
MIL Oct 12, 2004 Author: Our Reporter
An aerial attack by US early October 12 destroyed a building in Fallujah used as a meeting place by wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his followers, the U.S. military said.
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Militia to surrender weapon in Iraq
MIL Oct 11, 2004 Author:
The extended period of five days for militia owing allegiance to rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Sadr City to surrender medium and heavy weapons starts Monday.
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Kidnappers threaten to kill one hostage
MIL Oct 11, 2004 Author: Our Reporter
Kidnappers holding two Chinese engineers in Pakistan have threatened to kill one of them if the authorities didn’t lift the siege on their hideout.
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Cong retains power in Arunachal
MIL Oct 11, 2004 Author: Special Correspondent
The ruling Congress party won 32 of the 55 seats declared in Arunachal Pradesh, as counting of votes continued Monday.
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| 1526. |
 | Actor Christopher Reeve is no more
MIL Oct 11, 2004 Author: Special Correspondent
Actor Christopher Reeve (52), enthralling audience world-wide with his performance in superman series of the 1970s and 80s, has died.
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Blair’s mission
MIL Oct 11, 2004 Author: Our Reporter
Tony Blair sets his eyes on "opportunity society", which he said as his mission for a third term in office.
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| 1528. |
Prince Harry accused of cheating
MIL Oct 11, 2004 Author: Our News Bureau
Prince Harry, the third in line to the British throne, is accused of cheating in a finishing exam at the prestigious Eton College, the News of the World tabloid reported Sunday.
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Hostage from UK killed in Iraq
MIL Oct 9, 2004 Author: Special Correspondent
Ken Bigley, the British engineer who was taken hostage in Iraq three weeks ago, has been killed. His family confirmed this.
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 | Controversy erupts during Afghan poll
MIL Oct 9, 2004 Author: Our News Bureau
Complaints that the indelible ink used to mark voters' fingers can be wiped off took some sheen of the Afghan poll, billed as country’s first mass democratic elections.
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Three explosions rock Israel
MIL Oct 8, 2004 Author: Our Reporter
Three explosions at Egyptian Red Sea resorts popular have left at least 21 people dead. The biggest of the blasts, which Israel claims of bearing the stamp of Al-Qaeda, was at the Hilton hotel in Taba, right on Egypt's border with Israel.
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| 1532. |
 | Blair calls for international support of Africa
MIL Oct 8, 2004 Author:
British Prime Minister Tony Blair on October 7 chaired the second meeting of a commission he set up to find ways for helping Africa, the only one to have gone from bad to worse in the last quarter century.
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Pak blast, 35 killed
MIL Oct 7, 2004 Author: Special Correspondent
A car bomb went off early Thursday during a celebration of Islamic militants in the central Pakistan city of Multan, killing at least 35 people and wounding dozens more, police and hospital sources said.
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Trial date of US soldier announced
MIL Oct 7, 2004 Author:
A former US soldier, Charles Jenkins, 64, accused of deceiving his own country for North Korea will face a court martial on 3 November.
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Mayhem rules at Gaza
MIL Oct 6, 2004 Author: MIL
Mayhem rules via explosions in Gaza for the seventh day Tuesday,as Israel retained attacks aimed at ending Palestinian rocket attacks on its key areas.
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‘Mysterious object not a balloon’
MIL Oct 6, 2004 Author: Special Correspondent
Scientists at ISRO have drowned themselves inside the photograph of a mysterious object, which one scientist saw while camping at Samudra Tapu glacier region near Chandratal on September 27 morning. The photograph was brought back by Dr Anil V Kulkarni, a marine and water resources scientist.
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CIA finds no proof in Saddam-Qaeda link
MIL Oct 6, 2004 Author: Junior Reporter
A new assessment by CIA finds no proof to the claim that Iraq's deposed leader Saddam Hussein offered safe haven to Abu Mussab Zarqawi, a Jordanian extremist linked to Al-Qaeda, before the war, a US official said.
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US scientists bag Nobel for medicine
MIL Oct 5, 2004 Author: MIL
Two US scientists, Richard Axel, 58, of Columbia University in New York, and Linda B. Buck, 57, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle bagged the coveted Nobel Prize for medicine October 4 for revealing odor-sensing proteins in the nose and mapping how they communicated with the brain.
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Gaza peace deal initiated
MIL Oct 5, 2004 Author: MIL
Israel and the Palestinian Authority are trying hard for a deal to halt the army's Gaza offensive in return to put an end to militants firing rockets into the Jewish state, Israeli security sources say.
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US rules at Nobel Prize this year
MIL Oct 5, 2004 Author: MIL
It’s Americans all the way at Nobel prize this year. After bagging the prize for medicine by scientist duo Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck of US, David J. Gross, H. David Politzer and Frank Wilczeck the America trio won the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics on October 5 for discovering and exploring the force, binding particles inside an atomic nucleus.
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