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US sends 60,000 more troops to Gulf
BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON, March 4: The United States ordered 60,000 more troops to the Gulf, despite signs that an invasion of Iraq might be delayed until April, as big powers and ally Turkey... 
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Turkey considering another motion
ANKARA, March 4: Turkey’s government said on Tuesday it was considering a second try at winning approval for US troops to be based here, but hinted it first wanted a promise...
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Chinese legislature to meet today
 BEIJING, March 4: China’s 2,983-member National People’s Congress (NPC), one of the world’s largest legislatures, made final preparations on Tuesday for a generational change in the top political leadership amid tight...
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Pope calls upon Christians to fast for peace
VATICAN CITY, March 4: Pope John Paul II stepped up his crusade against a looming war in Iraq on Tuesday, urging the world’s Christians to stage a fast for peace on...
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US publicist resigns
WASHINGTON, March 4: US Secretary of State Colin Powell has announced that Charlotte Beers, who was hired by his department to improve America’s image in the Muslim world, is resigning....
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N. Koreans intercept US spy plane
SEOUL, March 4: The crisis on the Korean peninsula deepened on Tuesday after North Korean fighter jets faced off with a US spy plane ahead of US-South Korean military exercises aimed...
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Pakistanis in US seek repatriation
WASHINGTON, March 4: A large number of Pakistani nationals in US custody are approaching the Pakistan Embassy in Washington to arrange their early repatriation, the embassy said on Tuesday....
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Uncertainty over truce in Lanka
COLOMBO, March 4: The fragile ceasefire in Sri Lanka faces a number of threats owing to the attitude of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elaam (LTTE), who are bent upon violating...
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War on Iraq would be illegal, say British lawyers
LONDON, March 4: War on Iraq, even with a new UN resolution, would be a clear violation of international law, say two colleagues of the lawyer wife of Britain’s Prime Minister...
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World’s most ancient civilization under threat
WASHINGTON: It is the cradle of civilization — home of the world’s earliest agriculture, its earliest cities and its earliest writing. Hazrat Ibrahim lived there, as did Hammurabi and Nebuchadnezzar....
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Democracy pricks imperial balloon: Turkey ruptures US plan
WASHINGTON: “Turkish support is assured”, declared deputy Pentagon chief Paul Wolfowitz triumphantly after a meeting with top military and government officials in Ankara in early December....
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Politicians, officials differ over invasion
LONDON: The politics require a short, successful, low casualty war to conquer Iraq. The optimists are looking to start the post-Saddam reconstruction of Iraq six days after the military cross the...
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Stalin’s legacy haunts Russia
MOSCOW: He died half a century ago, but the world is still trying to defuse the time-bombs Soviet dictator Josef Stalin left behind....
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Hekmatyar stages comeback
ASADABAD: Unlike other Afghan warlords, his portrait appears nowhere, but the shadow of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar is omnipresent on the plains of the eastern Afghan province in Kunar and its capital Asadabad....
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North Korea preparing for a showdown
SINGAPORE: Wing tip to wing tip, North Korean fighters buzzed a lumbering US reconnaissance plane in an airborne encounter over the Sea of Japan. If the foes had touched, virtually no...
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Sharon puts ‘two-state solution’ theory to death
TEL AVIV: A single question stalks what remains of the creaking efforts to find peace in Israel: When is a state not a state? There is growing agreement among EU officials,...
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