Iraq rejects US ultimatum: Attack will be repelled: Saddam
 BAGHDAD, March 18: A defiant Iraq on Tuesday rejected a US ultimatum giving President Saddam Hussein 48 hours to go into exile or face war....
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Opposition wants govt to condemn war plan: NA puts aside LFO controversy
ISLAMABAD, March 18: The ruling and opposition parties in the National Assembly on Tuesday put aside a bitter controversy over presidential powers to debate the US-threatened war on Iraq, but the...
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Iraq is no danger, says Chirac
PARIS, March 18: In a solemn address on Tuesday, President Jacques Chirac warned Mr Bush telling that if the US continued with its ways, “it’s the stability of the world that...
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UNSC ponders over new Blix report
UNITED NATIONS, March 18: Sticking to a timetable superseded by moves to war, Security Council members on Tuesday studied a report by chief UN arms inspector Hans Blix asking them to...
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Bush sets 48-hour deadline
WASHINGTON, March 18: President George Bush has given President Saddam Hussein and his sons 48 hours to leave Iraq, warning that if they fail to do so by Thursday morning US...
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American, Canadian shot dead in Yemen
SANAA, March 18: A Yemeni oil rig worker shot dead his American supervisor, a Canadian and a Yemeni before killing himself at an isolated oilfield on Tuesday, the US oil company...
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Opposition reaffirms stand on LFO issue
ISLAMABAD, March 18: Opposition members raised the LFO issue again in the National Assembly on Tuesday, making it clear that it had not compromised its stand on the package of controversial...
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PIA to evacuate Pakistanis
KUWAIT CITY, March 18: Pakistan’s national airline said on Tuesday it had prepared a contingency plan to evacuate thousands of Pakistanis from the Gulf in the event of war in Iraq....
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EU urges healing of divisions
BRUSSELS, March 18: With American military strikes against Iraq believed to be only days away, the European Union’s top officials Tuesday struggled to heal deep divisions among the bloc’s leaders over...
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Islamabad dismayed at UNSC failure
 ISLAMABAD, March 18: The foreign minister said on Monday Pakistan has been disappointed by the UN Security Council as it had failed to reach a consensus on the Iraq issue....
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Jamali rules out backing invasion of Iraq
ISLAMABAD, March 18: Pakistan is against war as it would bring nothing but misery to the people of Iraq, said Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali here on Tuesday....
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Third UK minister resigns
LONDON, March 18: A third British minister resigned on Tuesday to protest against Prime Minister Tony Blair’s backing for a war on Iraq....
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China calls for political solution
BEIJING, March 18: China’s president Hu Jintao told US President George W. Bush on Tuesday that China wanted a political solution to the Iraqi crisis and hoped for peace, not war,...
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Pakistan, India to set up coastal security link
ISLAMABAD, March 18: Pakistan and India have decided to establish a permanent communication link between Pakistan’s Maritime Security Agency and Indian Coastal Guards....
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