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Anti-Saddam groups object to US plans: Bush envoy accused of favouring Israel
SALAHADDIN (Iraq), March 1: A bid by Iraqi opposition groups to stake their claim to the future leadership of a post-Saddam Hussein government has ended in an acrimonious showdown with the... 
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US preparing to launch attack: North Korea
SEOUL, March 1: North Korea accused the United States on Saturday of stepping up spy flights as a preparation for war as South Korea’s new president vowed to work for a...
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US prefers Abu Mazin to Arafat: Armitage
WASHINGTON, March 1: US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has said that senior Palestinian official Mahmud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazin, will be acceptable to the United States as...
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Khamenei loyalists set to sweep Tehran polls
TEHRAN, March 1: Conservative candidates loyal to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei were set to sweep elections for Tehran’s city council on Saturday, in what would be a setback for reformist...
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Abdullah, Qadhafi trade barbs
 SHARM EL-SHEIKH, March 1: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz stormed out of an Arab summit here on Saturday after a heated public row with Libyan President Moamer Qadhafi...
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Main points of Arab summit resolution
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, March 1: Here are the main points from the resolution adopted by a summit of Arab leaders at this Red Sea resort, rejecting any strike on Iraq or their...
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S. Arabia backed call for Saddam exit: UAE
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, March 1: The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) call for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to resign to prevent a war had the backing of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, its information...
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US says it is trying to defuse tension
SAN FRANCISCO, March 1: The United States is working to ease tensions between India and Pakistan, the State Department told the Pakistan American National Alliance (PANA), a coalition of 18 Pakistani...
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700 Chinese detained in France
PARIS, March 1: With 700 illegal Chinese immigrants detained in the past four weeks alone at Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, China has suddenly become the single largest source of illegal aliens...
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Survey shows support for veto in France
PARIS, March 1: Seventy per cent of the French, according to a poll published in Saturday morning’s issue of the national daily Le Parisien, say that if a second resolution authorizing...
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Court rejects Bush plea to overturn ban on ‘under God’ pledge
SAN FRANCISCO, March 1: A US appeals court on Friday upheld its controversial ruling that a patriotic oath recited by generations of American school children is unconstitutional because it invokes the...
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Attack on Iraq Arab states to be hurt the most
LONDON: All Arabs, regimes and peoples, agree on one thing: war on Iraq may affect the entire world, but they and their region will pay far the highest price....
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Fox caught between domestic doves, US
MEXICO CITY: President Vicente Fox is in a squeeze. He has to mollify domestic opinion, which is solidly antiwar, as well as the expectations of his northern neighbour, which feels Mexico...
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Japan’s nuclear promise sours
TOKYO: Scandals, cover-ups and accidents — it sounds like the plot of a soap opera....
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US action unlikely to stir unrest in S. Arabia
RIYADH: The Saudi authorities may have dismayed their US allies by speaking out against war on Iraq but the policy does seem to have succeeded in defusing potential popular unrest at...
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What Russia profits by supporting US
MOSCOW: When Foreign Minister Igor S. Ivanov issued a barely veiled threat Friday to use Russia’s veto power against a new UN Security Council resolution, he flashed what might be Moscow’s...
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