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Strained Turkey-US ties over Kurds
ANKARA, March 16: Turkish plans to intervene in northern Iraq have put a new strain on ties between Washington and Ankara, with US President George W. Bush warning that the Turkish... 
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Iraq gives papers on mobile labs, military zones created
BAGHDAD, March 16: Iraq has given UN arms inspectors pictures and videotapes of mobile laboratories it says are for strictly for civilian purposes, hitting back at US and British charges that...
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Global alert as WHO warns of killer disease
 HONG KONG, March 16: Global health authorities were on the alert on Sunday for a severe type of pneumonia that has killed at least nine people, infected more than 100 and...
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Syria, Iran oppose attack on Iraq
TEHRAN, March 16: The presidents of Iran and Syria met on Sunday, stressed their opposition to war in Iraq and called on Washington to heed public opposition to military action, Iran’s...
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200 Saudi scholars demand democracy
RIYADH, March 16: Two hundred Saudi intellectuals, in an unprecedented written statement, have urged the Arab states to grant people more freedom and democracy and have opposed the war on Iraq,...
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Forced change in US plans
WASHINGTON, March 16: The United States is moving 10 warships armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles from the eastern Mediterranean to the Red Sea....
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ADB, UN commit to water plan
KYOTO, Japan, March 16: The United Nations and Asian Development Bank (ADB) are this week to firm commitments to the 510 million-dollar Water for Asian Cities Programme to provide millions with...
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US lists 9 Iraqis for war crimes trials: NYT
WASHINGTON, March 16: The US government has identified nine senior Iraqi officials — including Saddam Hussein and his two sons — who would be tried for war crimes or crimes against...
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Mideast’s largest military show opens in shadow of war
ABU DHABI, March 16: The Middle East’s largest military show opened Sunday in the United Arab Emirates under tight security with international defence companies saying they were undeterred by the prospect...
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Bulldozer crushes US peace activist
 GAZA CITY, March 16: An Israeli army bulldozer on Sunday crushed to death a US peace activist trying to prevent house demolitions in the Gaza Strip, where Israeli fire also killed...
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French firms do not see post-war gains
PARIS, March 16: Most French companies queried as to whether a war with Iraq has changed in any way their habits, say that a US attack on Saddam Hussein should have...
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US has legal authority for war: Powell
NEW YORK, March 16: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday that US did not need a second UN resolution to go to war against Iraq and reiterated that...
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Foreign hand seen behind BD blasts
DHAKA, March 16: The Judicial Commission probing explosions in four cinemas in Mymensingh has reportedly blamed “a particular intelligence agency of the neighbouring country” for the serial blasts that killed 18...
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Chirac’s popularity soars: poll
PARIS, March 16: Only a year after opinion polls had him losing to his Socialist challenger Lionel Jospin, President Jacques Chirac has attained his highest popularity rating ever largely because of...
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Fenced Arabs await US road map for ‘peace’
AL MAWASI: The waves break all along the clean sandy beach and palm trees sway in the Mediterranean breeze. It could be a holiday resort, but to the residents of Al...
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Bush may use trade pacts for leverage
WASHINGTON: Maybe it’s just a coincidence that the Commerce Department announced decisions in recent days to confer “market- based-economy” status on Bulgaria and Romania, two Eastern European countries that support President...
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Kurd chemical survivors wary of world’s attention
SULAIMANIYA: Sirens sounded and streets fell silent on Sunday as Iraqi Kurds marked the 15th anniversary of a chemical attack by Saddam Hussein’s forces on the town of Halabja that killed...
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Who gets the contracts to rebuild post-war Iraq
LONDON: Iraq, April 2003 — a scene of devastation. Roads are cratered, bridges collapsed, hospitals reduced to rubble. Sea ports cannot dock ships to load the country’s key export — oil....
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EU yet to master a world crisis
LONDON: “The European Union was not constructed to do peace and war.” So confessed Joschka Fischer, Germany’s Foreign Minister, last week....
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Drought spells doom for Eritrea
ASMARA: Villagers in drought-hit Eritrea spend their days being hungry, walking long distances to receive food aid, or attending the frequent burials of friends and relatives....
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