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UN wishes peace, justice reconciliation
KABUL, Dec 22: The United Nations special envoy to Afghanistan described Saturday’s impending inauguration of an interim power-sharing government as a “momentous day” for the country.... 
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Lion of Panjshir ‘looks on’ as warlords bury hatchet
KABUL, Dec 22: Warlords buried the hatchet for Afghanistan’s first peaceful change of government in decades, but it seems new leader Hamid Karzai will always have late mujahideen legend Ahmad Shah...
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Iran hails transfer of power
KABUL, Dec 22: Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi hailed Saturday’s impending swearing-in of a new interim government in Kabul as a “great day” for Afghanistan and the entire Islamic world....
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Russia welcomes new govt
MOSCOW, Dec 22: Russia welcomed the formal transition of power in Afghanistan to a UN-backed administration on Saturday, saying it hoped the event would help usher in a peaceful future for...
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PA hails Hamas decision
GAZA CITY, Dec 22: The Palestinian leadership has hailed the decision by the Hamas to halt suicide and mortar attacks against Israel....
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Karzai to visit Washington
KABUL, Dec 22: Afghanistan’s new leader said on Saturday he had accepted an invitation by US President George W. Bush to visit the United States....
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Uranium smuggler held in Georgia
TBILISI, Dec 22: Georgian police have arrested an Armenian smuggler with 300 grams (10.5 ounces) of radioactive uranium that he planned to sell in Turkey, a senior security official said on...
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Lankan PM visits India
COLOMBO, Dec 22: Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe left for India on Saturday in his latest move to fast-track a peace process to end his island’s bitter ethnic war....
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Iraq vows to ‘resist’ US attack
BAGHDAD, Dec 22: Iraq is confident it can “resist” any US attack launched in a future phase of Washington’s war on terror, Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz said Saturday....
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Osama not sighted for a week: Franks
KABUL, Dec 22: Osama bin Laden has not been reliably sighted for the past week and US forces do not know whether he is dead or alive, US Gen Tommy Franks...
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Fight to continue: Hezbollah
DAMASCUS, Dec 21: Lebanon’s Shia Hezbollah “will not abandon the resistance option” against Israel, despite US pressure on Lebanon and Syria for the group to stop its attacks, a group official...
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Khatami says his hands are tied
TEHRAN, Dec 22: Iran’s President Mohammad Khatami promised angry students on Saturday that he would remain faithful to his reforms but said his hands were tied in the face of powerful...
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200 held in Turkey
ANKARA, Dec 22: Turkish security forces intercepted on Friday 222 would-be illegal immigrants and four people-smugglers attempting to cross into Greece by boat, the Anatolia news agency reported....
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Grozny cafe blown up
MOSCOW, Dec 22: A Chechen woman and a Russian soldier were badly injured early on Saturday when a bomb ripped through a cafe in the Chechen capital Grozny, TV-6 television reported....
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Snow forces 60,000 to sleep in cars
BERLIN, Dec 22: Bavaria’s worst-ever traffic jam forced at least 60,000 Germans to spend the first night of the Christmas holidays trapped in their cars, as snow and ice brought chaos...
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Iraq not behind anthrax: paper
NEW YORK, Dec 22: Despite Bush administration’s effort to find an Iraqi link in the anthrax attacks in the US, the scientists and US officials are determined that the strain which...
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Seven die as ship sinks
MANILA, Dec 22: Seven people were killed on Saturday when a boat ferrying passengers to shore collided with a fishing boat and sank in the central Philippines....
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Hamas move may turn tables on Israel
AL QUDS: Yasser Arafat hopes Washington will ease pressure on the Palestinians and bring it to bear on Israel instead following a decision by Hamas fighters to halt suicide attacks in...
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NMD: no protective umbrella for US
LONDON: Even though Russia is no longer a remotely conceivable enemy, missile defence is still what a US president wants to do. Vladimir Putin described President Bush’s decision to withdraw...
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Anti-terror war hits new hurdles
WASHINGTON: The waning drone of B-52s over Afghanistan is signalling a new and in some ways trickier phase of the US war on international terrorism - at least on the diplomatic...
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