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France flies hundreds of troops to Ivory Coast
ABIDJAN, Dec 14: France began flying hundreds more troops into war-torn Ivory Coast on Saturday, building up its biggest intervention force in a former African colony since the 1980s.... 
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Saddam’s foes urge federal, tolerant Iraq
LONDON, Dec 14: Opponents of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein met in London on Saturday to map out a future for the country and call for a federal, tolerant Iraq in the...
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France readies for Turk retaliation
PARIS, Dec 14: France said it’s preparing for possible retaliatory measures from Turkey, as a result of the French government’s insistence that the European Union push back as far as possible...
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Bashir transferred for police questioning
JAKARTA, Dec 14: Indonesian suspect Abu Bakar Bashir is to refuse to be interrogated after finally being taken to police headquarters following two months’ detention in hospitals, his lawyer said...
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Kissinger quits probe panel
WASHINGTON, Dec 14: Former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger stepped down on Friday as chairman of a blue ribbon commission investigating the United States’ failure to prevent the Sept 11...
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Jordan arrests two for death of US envoy
AMMAN, Dec 14: Jordanian authorities arrested a Jordanian and a Libyan on Saturday, both alleged members of the Al Qaeda network, in connection with the October murder of a US diplomat...
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Bahrain’s parliament inaugurated
MANAMA, Dec 14: Bahrain’s first National Assembly was officially inaugurated on Saturday by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa — but the first parliament in nearly three decades opened in the...
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First cloned baby to be born in Serbia
BELGRADE, Dec 14: The world’s first cloned baby will be born in Belgrade in January, controversial Italian gynaecologist Severino Antinori said in an interview in the Serbian weekly Nin....
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DP’s centre dismantled
PARIS, Dec 14: Two weeks before its final closure, the Sangatte refugee center at Calais is already being dismantled, with most of its 1700 former inhabitants well on their way to...
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Charlemagne Prize for Giscard
AACHEN (Germany), Dec 14: Former French president Valery Giscard d’Estaing will receive Germany’s Charlemagne Prize for 2003, the jury said on Saturday....
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Iraq, N. Korea seen via US policies
SEOUL: An impoverished totalitarian regime. A reclusive leader who wields power through a cult of personality. Surreptitious plots to develop weapons of mass destruction. A penchant for blustery rhetoric and a...
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US keeps pressure on Iran over N-plants
WASHINGTON: The United States edged closer to confrontation with all three members of President Bush’s “axis of evil” on Friday when US officials accused Iran of secretly developing two nuclear plants...
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West silent as killings continue in Chechnya
LONDON: The corpse of someone you do not know is not necessarily a frightening or moving sight, unless some detail brings it home that this stranger was a breathing, thinking, laughing...
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Turks united in desire to join EU club
ISTANBUL: It takes 10 minutes to cross the Bosphorus in one of the water buses ploughing back and forth in the shadow of Ataturk bridge — a short ride from Europe...
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