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The US is preparing to carry out the latest test of its missile defence technology and says it is stepping up the test programme to one a month at a cost of $100m each.

2. Hope for shark attack boy

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The eight-year-old boy whose right arm was bitten off by a shark in Florida is expected to live, although he remains in a light coma and critical condition, doctors said.

3. Police comb remote DCes in search of missing intern

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4. Kyoto protocol: a treaty that is gasping for fresh air

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5. US threatens to boycott race conference if Zionism raised

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WASHINGTON: The United States will boycott a UN conference on race if planners insist on including discussions of equating Zionism with racism and reparations for slavery, the White House said.

6. Difficult times for US job seekers

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NEW YORK: Kevin Harrington has recruited for a San Francisco placement agency for ten years, and he cannot remember the climate being worse for job seekers. The agency has stopped interviewing for summer employment, because it already has books...

7. US warns Beijing over weapons proliferation

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WASHINGTON: The United States is concerned by reports that China is selling weapons of mass destruction to third world countries, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said yesterday.

8. US rejects cocaine planes claim

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LIMA: Peru said yesterday its skies were “being inundated with drug trafficking planes” since the United States suspended surveillance flights in April after a Peruvian Air Force jet shot down a U.S. missionary plane.

9. Peruvian

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LIMA: Eight top officials of the Peruvian airline Aero Continente were holed up in the Peruvian embassy for the third day yesterday, fearing arrest after four colleagues were jailed two weeks ago on money laundering charges.

10. Spielberg makes a monster mistake

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WASHINGTON: Just as Steven Spielberg thought he had created the most realistic dinosaurs in 65 million years, an American expert has called for them to be given nose jobs.

11. Briefs: Actor Cusack on cue for

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LOS ANGELES: After the wild ride in last year’s US presidential election, some Americans are already campaigning for another candidate: actor John Cusack. An Internet movement to get the star of High Fidelity, Being John Malkovich” and Say...

12. Bush signs law to extend sanctions against Iran and Libya

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WASHINGTON: US President George W Bush signed into law on Friday a measure extending for five years a 1996 sanctions act that curbs foreign investment in the petroleum and gas industries of Iran and Libya.

13. US blame game on Middle East is ‘shallow and dangerous’

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WASHINGTON: In a battle for US policy in the Middle East, the sparks are flying between those who blame Palestinian President Yasser Arafat for the collapse of last year’s Camp David summit and those who argue that Israel and the United States...

14. Bush has swing at holiday critics

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WACO, Texas,: U.S. President George W. Bush yesterday launched a vigorous defence of his decision to spend a month on vacation away from Washington as a poll reported a solid majority of Americans think 30 days is too long

15. Discovery set for blast off in near perfect conditions

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CAPE CANAVERA: The US space shuttle Discovery is set to blast off tomorrow on a 12-day mission to the International Space Station, delivering a new crew and implements for an array of scientific experiments.

16. I will soon clone humans: Antinori

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WASHINGTON: - Controversial Italian embryologist Severino Antinori announced at an international scientific gathering here yesterday that he will soon pioneer efforts to clone humans.

17. Wife of shark attack man makes a vow

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‘MIAMI: Her husband bravely fought off a shark that shredded his left leg during a dining and dancing anniversary getaway in the Bahamas but New York lawyer Avemaria Thompson vowed yesterday: “We’ll be dancing again.”

18. BP profits rise 5.2pc in Q2

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London: BP yesterday swept aside concerns that it may struggle to meet its production growth targets by saying it was ahead of schedule for this year and on-track to deliver its promised 5.5 per cent average annual volume increase by 2005.

19. Christians to shun Muslim autonomy vote in Philippines

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ZAMBOANGA: A massive Christian “no” vote was shaping up yesterday as the Philippines prepared to hold a plebiscite on expanding a Muslim autonomy zone in the country’s rebellion-racked south.

20. Milf not to abandon bid for independence despite truce

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ZAMBOANGA: The Philippines’ main Muslim insurgency group will not drop its bid for independence in the southern island of Midnanao despite a truce sealed with Manila, a rebel spokesman said yesterday.

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