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KSA: Coronavirus patent complicating diagnosis
GENEVA: Saudi Arabia lamented Thursday that foreign drug companies had patented the new SARS-like novel coronavirus that has killed 22 people worldwide in less than a year, slowing down the diagnosis...
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Extortionists blamed for deadly blast in southern Philippines

Saturday 12 October 2002
COTABATO CITY, 12 October – For once, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the governor of North Cotabato province are in complete agreement: They both say the separatist group has nothing
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Hassle for Pinoy immigrants removed in AVB

Saturday 12 October 2002
MANILA, 12 October — Filipino immigrants will no longer be required to sign a formal pledge signifying their intention to return and resettle in the Philippines as a precondition to their right to
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Israelis bar Palestinians from praying at Al-Aqsa

Saturday 12 October 2002
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, 12 October — Israeli police yesterday blocked Palestinians’ access to Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for Friday prayers and used force to drive back worshipers.
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Pakistan heads for hung Parliament

Saturday 12 October 2002
ISLAMABAD, 12 October — Pakistan was headed for a hung Parliament yesterday with no single party able to win a clear majority in poll branded fraudulent by opposition parties, as the country witnes
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US plans postwar occupation of Iraq

Saturday 12 October 2002
LOS ANGELES/BAGHDAD, 12 October — The Bush administration is contemplating a lengthy postwar occupation of Iraq, in which a senior US general would become de facto governor of the country, oversee
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Parties work on Kashmir coalition amid new hope

Saturday 12 October 2002
NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR, 12 October — Indian political parties were trying to set up a new administration to run turbulent Kashmir yesterday after a state election that has raised hopes of peace in the
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Mandate a body blow for govt’s pro-US policies: Pakistani expats

Friday 11 October 2002
RIYADH, 11 October — The results of Pakistan’s first elections since President Pervez Musharraf’s 1999 coup have shown that Islamic parties are leading in Baluchistan and other frontier areas,
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Musharraf to transfer power Nov. 1

Friday 11 October 2002
ISLAMABAD, 11 October — Pakistan’s President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said he would hand over executive power by around Nov.
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Israelis kill 2 more Palestinian boys

Friday 11 October 2002
TEL AVIV, 11 October — Israeli tanks killed two youths yesterday in the Gaza Strip in the ongoing operation that has killed more than 20 Palestinians.
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Indian Kashmir’s ruling party loses poll

Friday 11 October 2002
SRINAGAR, 11 October — The long-ruling National Conference party in India’s troubled Kashmir state was swept out of power, results showed yesterday.
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