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Sharon asked to free Palestinian newsmen : Journalists were humiliated: RSF
PARIS, May 6: In the first special bulletin issued since it published its annual report on Friday to coincide with International Press Freedom Day, Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) has demanded of... 
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US abandons Criminal Court treaty
WASHINGTON, May 6: The United States on Monday renounced its legal obligation to support the treaty that creates the International Criminal Court because of flaws in its mandate that leave it...
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Netherland’s far right leader shot dead
THE HAGUE, May 6: Dutch far-right leader Pim Fortuyn was shot and killed by an unidentified gunman on Monday, nine days before national elections in which his anti-immigrant party was set...
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Nepal king to visit China, India
KATHMANDU, May 6: King Gyanendra’s top palace officials said they were busy making preparations for the Nepalese monarch’s first state visits to India and China, Nepal’s immediate neighbours....
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Tamil MPs to lobby PM for repeal of terrorism act
COLOMBO, May 6: Tamil MPs of Sri Lanka’s Tamil National Alliance (TNA) intend to meet Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe this week to advocate the repeal of the prevention of terrorism act,...
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US to take up settlement issue
WASHINGTON, May 6: The question of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza will figure during the Bush administration’s talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon beginning on Tuesday, United...
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Vajpayee irked over Musharraf handshake ad
NEW DELHI, May 6: The Indian government has banned a television advertisement spot showing President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee shaking hands....
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Powell is sidelined, say senators
WASHINGTON, May 6: Two US senators on Sunday accused members of the administration of President George W. Bush of secretly working to undermine efforts by Secretary of State Colin Powell to...
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Fear of far right enabled Chirac to beat Le Pen
PARIS: The euphoria of Sunday night’s champagne celebrations at Jacques Chirac’s campaign headquarters is unlikely to have lingered much beyond the early hours of Monday morning: rarely has a newly elected...
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Afghans put in an eight-hour workday
KABUL: If there is one capitalist reality that Afghans have learned in these days of peace after more than two decades of communism and chaos, it’s that there is no such...
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What can EU do to counter racism
BRUSSELS: Sighs of relief will be heard all over Europe as a shaken continent bids adieu, hopefully not au revoir, to Jean- Marie Le Pen. But of the many troubling questions...
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‘Happy are those’ who see sites in Iraq
SAMARRA (Iraq): The name means “happy is he who sees it” but few people do these days....
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UK pound to be devalued
LONDON: The president of the Bundesbank, Ernst Welteke, has said he thinks the pound would have to be devalued before Britain could join the single currency....
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Bitter UK towns brace for another summer of hate
LONDON, May 5: Landlord Andrew Wallace knows that trouble is on its way. Three weeks ago the windows of his pub in the northern England town of Preston were smashed during...
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