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Bush favours new agency
WASHINGTON, JUNE 7.In what is being billed as the most "radical'' overhaul of the Government since World War II, the President, George W. Bush, has come up with a Cabinet Agency for Homeland Security aimed at consolidating the work of at least ...
`Fight terrorism on its turf'
BRUSSELS, JUNE 7.The threat of terrorism has prompted NATO to review its military and technological capabilities as it seeks to maintain its relevance as a military and security alliance in the fast-changing security scenario with the rise of ...
Arafat urges U.S. to call meet
RAMALLAH (WEST BANK), JUNE 7.The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, asked the United States on Friday to convene a West Asia peace conference as quickly as possible, while Israeli tanks raided Jenin, hometown of the latest Palestinian suicide ...
Hostages shot dead
SINGAPORE: Two hostages, an American and a Filipino, were shot dead in a rescue operation mounted on Friday to rescue them from the clutches of their Abu Sayyaf captors in the southern Philippines. Another American hostage, who was shot at, has ...
Shanghai group gains legal status
MOSCOW, JUNE 7.The leaders of Russia, China and four Central Asian nations have formally established a new regional grouping sprawling from the Baltic Sea in the West to the Pacific Ocean in the East. At a summit in St. Petersburg on Friday, ...
Apollo Hospital in Colombo
COLOMBO, JUNE 7.The Sri Lankan President, Chandrika Kumaratunga, and the Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe, today jointly declared open the 500-bed Apollo Hospital here and described it as the grand symbol of co-operation between Sri Lanka and ...
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