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Iraq didn’t violate resolution: Russia: US to deploy 50,000 troops next month
MOSCOW, Dec 20: Russia does not consider Iraq’s declaration on its weapons programme to represent a material breach of UN Security Council Resolution 1441, Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov said on... 
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ME quartet postpones decision on peace plan
 WASHINGTON, Dec 20: The Quartet of Middle East mediators — the United States, European Union, Russia and the United Nations — agreed on Friday to postpone a decision to tell Israelis...
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New leader for fresh look at US-RoK ties
SEOUL, Dec 20: South Korea’s president-elect Roh Moo-hyun on Friday called for changes in the country’s half-century alliance with the United States, but pledged to work closely with Washington resolve a...
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Unified body to represent French Muslims
PARIS, Dec 20: In a major step forward for France’s five million Muslims, the government and community leaders on Friday agreed to set up the first-ever unified representative body authorized to...
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Al Jazeera crew alleges harassment by ISAF
KABUL, Dec 20: A journalist for the Arabic-language network Al Jazeera said on Friday he and a colleague were detained and roughed up by troops from the multinational force in Kabul...
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UK court blocks case against airlines
LONDON, Dec 20: A London court blocked an attempt on Friday by victims of “economy class syndrome” to sue airlines over claims that cramped seating on long flights gave them potentially...
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Pope recognizes Teresa miracle
VATICAN CITY, Dec 20: Pope John Paul on Friday formally recognized a miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, speeding the world’s most famous nun towards rapid sainthood....
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France offers a belated treat to new EU states
PARIS, Dec 20: Nobody wants for the moment to take the responsibility, but France has been criticized for having committed a major diplomatic gaffe by forgetting, unlike the other EU countries,...
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Publisher held for lampooning Karzai
KABUL, Dec 20: The publisher of a private Afghan weekly was taken into custody after publishing a cartoon critical of President Hamid Karzai, the detained man’s family said on Friday....
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Soros convicted of insider trading
PARIS, Dec 20: The US financier George Soros was convicted of insider trading by a French court on Friday and ordered to pay a 2.2 million dollar fine for his role...
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Seoul polls another defeat for Bush: Anti-US vote triumphs
WASHINGTON: The victory on Wednesday of governing party candidate Roh Moo-hyun in South Korea’s presidential elections marks a serious setback for the Bush administration’s hardline against North Korea, as well as...
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Russia may enthrone tsars again
MOSCOW: Russia may reclaim its tsarist history next year by declaring null and void the crimes for which its last monarch, Tsar Nicholas II, was executed in 1917 at the height...
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Bulgarians regret giving up communism
SOFIA: Bulgarians, who gave up communism in 1989, feel swindled by capitalism and remain one of the poorest European Union candidate countries, despite an improvement in their average living standards....
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Blair rides high as opponents squabble over euro, Iraq
LONDON: Tony Blair could be at war in Iraq next year and may take on a sceptical British public over joining the euro — but even those minefields hold few risks...
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