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    Basayev owns up Beslan school siege
    MOSCOW, SEPT. 17. The Chechen militant leader, Shamil Basayev, has formally taken responsibility for a recent spate of terrorist attacks in Russia that claimed over 440 lives. In a letter posted on a Chechen rebel web site on Friday, Mr. ...

    Fake bomb smuggled into Commons
    LONDON, SEPT. 17. In yet another embarrassing security breach at Westminster, an undercover journalist has claimed that he was able to smuggle a fake bomb-making equipment into the building despite heightened alert after Wednesday's incident when ...

    Remarks have not affected ties: Morshed Khan
    DHAKA, SEPT. 17. The Bangladesh Foreign Minister, M. Morshed Khan, has said that his recent remarks about India have not created any adverse impact on bilateral ties. "What I have said is nothing about the relations. I have only listed the ...

    Ivan claims 27 lives in U.S.
    PENSACOLA (FLORIDA), SEPT. 17. Hurricane Ivan was the deadliest hurricane to hit the U.S. since Floyd in 1999, but it could have been worse. It spared New Orleans and left millions feeling lucky in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. But ...

    Why all these hurricanes?
    LONDON, SEPT. 17.Weather systems in the Atlantic follow a 20-year cycle of severe storms and relative calm. We just happen to be nearly 10 years into the upswing of this cycle. Meteorologists use several factors to calculate how many storms are ...

    U.S. apologises over security leaks
    LONDON, SEPT. 17. The U.S. President Bush's chief domestic security official yesterday apologised for the disruption of a major MI5 and police surveillance operation in Britain. Tom Ridge, the Homeland Security Secretary, said the leaking of ...

    Close ties with India, a high priority goal: U.S.
    WASHINGTON, SEPT. 17. The U.S. President, George W. Bush, has said that development of close relations between the United States and India has been a "high priority goal" since the beginning of his administration and has expressed confidence that ...

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