An $8 billion Boeing Co led programme to develop a new airborne electronic attack aircraft is on track, under budget and should fly for the first time on September 1, 2006, Navy officials said on

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Britain risks losing any international authority it has on climate change because of a poor track record in cutting its own greenhouse gas emissions, one of the country's top scientists said on Thursday. Prime Minister

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Australia is considering stripping people of their citizenship if they are convicted of terrorist crimes, Prime Minister John Howard said on Thursday as parliament began debating tough new anti-terrorism laws. The move comes two days

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British foreign policy, especially in the Middle East, is a "key contributory factor" in pushing some members of the country's Muslim population towards extremism, an official report concluded Thursday. The Home Office set up a

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A top Kuwaiti official announced Thursday the discovery of two birds infected with avian flu, the first cases to be reported in the Gulf region. Sheikh Fahd Salem al-Sabah, head of the public agriculture authority,

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North Korea must halt its nuclear weapons programme now to show it is taking negotiations on disarmament seriously, the chief US negotiator said on Thursday on the second day of six-party talks in Beijing. But

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India's cabinet Thursday approved the appointment of an inquiry to examine allegations that former foreign minister Natwar Singh benefited from the United Nations oil-for-food program for Iraq. A UN report said Natwar Singh and the

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Iraq's al Qaeda said on Thursday it carried out bomb attacks on three international hotels in Amman because they were used by American and Israeli spies, according to an Internet statement. "These hotels were chosen

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US President George W. Bush expressed condolences to Jordan's King Abdullah on Thursday after suicide bombings killed 57 people in Amman and said the United States and its allies must remain firm in the war

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Taleban militants killed seven policemen and beheaded two civilians, while an Afghan soldier was shot dead after he opened fire on US troops, government and army officials said Thursday. US and Afghan forces meanwhile killed

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