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MADRID: A car bomb exploded at a hotel a coastal resort near Barcelona yesterday in what was seen as a continuing campaign against tourist centres by the Basque separatist group ETA.

2. Kidnapping problem to be solved this year: Manila

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MANILA: Philippine government officials yesterday said they were confident that the problem of the Abu Sayyaf Muslim kidnapping group and the rash of abductions in general would be solved this year.

3. Key Nato supply route blocked

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BLACE, Macedonia: Macedonian nationalists opposed to a Western-backed peace deal for their country yesterday blocked the main road leading out of Skopje towards Kosovo, a major Nato supply route, a reporter at the scene said.

4. Biological weapons talks collapse

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GENEVA: A dispute blocked agreement on how to pursue international efforts to strengthen a United Nations ban on biological weapons, despite negotiations into the small hours, the chairman of the talks said yesterday.

5. Activists accuse Genoa police of torturing them during G8 protests

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VIENNA: Members of an Austrian theatre company accused Italian police yesterday of abusing them psychologically, physically and sexually in detention during last month’s G8 summit in Genoa.

6. Prayers of hope turn to prayers for the dead

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MANILA: Prayers of hope turned to prayers for the dead yesterday after fire ravaged a Manila hotel packed with people attending an evangelical conference.

7. 78 killed in Philippine hotel blaze

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QUEZON CITY: Fire swept through a six-storey budget hotel before dawn yesterday, killing at least 78 people and injuring 54 others as anti-burglar bars on the windows blocked escape from deadly smoke, officials said. Two people survived by jumping...

8. China demands explanation on hostage deaths

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MANILA: China yesterday demanded that the Philippines explain the death of two Chinese hostages during a gunbattle between soldiers and Muslim gunmen holding them on southern Mindanao island.

9. Investigators for charging hotel owner

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MANILA: Arson investigators in the Philippines yesterday sought charges of multiple homicide against the owner of a budget hotel ravaged by a fire that left 78 people dead.

10. Kursk salvage operation resumes

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MOSCOW: Workers trying to salvage the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Kursk resumed the effort yesterday after a two-day break for bad weather but now have barely a month to meet a crucial mid-September deadline.

11. Toy bomb blast kills woman in Spain

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MADRID: A toy car exploded in northern Spain yesterday, killing a woman and blinding her 16-month-old grandson in a blast that officials had initially investigated as a possible bomb attack by the Basque separatist group ETA.

12. Arroyo likens Megawati to a sister

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MANILA: Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said yesterday her forthcoming talks with Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri would be like a meeting between sisters.

13. Powerful typhoon set to hit Japan

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TOKYO: Packing winds of nearly 130kmph, Typhoon Pabuk churned towards Japan on Monday, forcing cancellation of domestic flights, halting ferries to South Korea and threatening a rocket launch.

14. Meta confirmed as Albanian PM

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TIRANA: Albanian Prime Minister Ilir Meta won confirmation as head of government for a new four-year term in a vote by the ruling Socialist party yesterday, party officials said.

15. Milosevic turns 60 behind bars; awaits trial for war crimes

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THE HAGUE: Former Yugoslav strongman Slobodan Milosevic celebrated his 60th birthday yesterday behind bars, with only his wife, daughter-in-law and grandson keeping him company as he awaited trial for war crimes at the UN tribunal in The Hague.

16. Philippine city treasurer killed in ambush

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Philippine city treasurer killed in ambush

17. Philippine police hunt for owner of deathtrap hotel

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MANILA: Police launched a hunt for the owner of a Philippine hotel where 78 people were killed in one of the country’s worst fires, a day after criminal charges were filed against him, officials said yesterday.

18. Manila orders probe into hostage killing

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COTABATO, Philippines: Vice- President Teofisto Guingona yesterday ordered an inquiry into the deaths of two of four Chinese hostages in a bloody army rescue attempt, as kidnappers threatened to behead two other captives.

19. Megawati, Arroyo discuss ties

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MANILA: Indonesian leader Megawati Sukarnoputri met her Philippines counterpart Gloria Arroyo here yesterday for wide-ranging talks on common problems that run from poverty to Muslim separatist rebellions.

20. Double murder rocks Corsica

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BASTIA, France: The French island of Corscia was again in the spotlight yesterday following the killing of two men whose charred bodies were discovered by police just four days after the murder of a prominent nationalist leader.

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