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Officials keen on interim govt Finding Saddam not vital, says US
WASHINGTON, April 4: The White House said on Friday it would consider military action in Iraq a success even if US forces failed to find President Saddam Hussein.... 
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1.5m without water in south: WHO
GENEVA, April 4: International aid convoys have started to trickle into southern Iraq, where an estimated 1.5 million people without water are the top target for assistance, UN agencies and the...
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Singapore claims containing SARS
SINGAPORE, April 4: The sixth death from SARS was reported in Singapore on Friday as the health minister said the outbreak may be coming under control....
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LTTE accuses US of sabotaging talks
COLOMBO, April 4: Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels on Friday accused the United States of trying to undermine their peace bid with the government by excluding them from a key aid...
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Bickering over post-war setup
WASHINGTON, April 4: While the US military battles for control of Iraqi territory, senior American policymakers are struggling in Washington over a post-Saddam Hussein political future for the country, officials said...
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Saddam survived strikes: experts
WASHINGTON, April 4: US intelligence believes that a speech by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein broadcast over Iraqi television on Friday, while not conclusive, indicates that he survived a March 20 air...
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Indira feared army coup: Manekshaw
NEW DELHI, April 4: India’s most decorated former army chief Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw has repeated his assertion that the prime minister of his day, the late Indira Gandhi, had feared...
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16th day of the war
* Big explosion hits presidential complex in central Baghdad; Artillery fire heard over southwestern Baghdad, from direction of capital’s airport...
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Civilian casualties alarm aid agencies
GENEVA, April 4: International aid agencies on Friday said they were alarmed by the number of civilian casualties in the war in Iraq and their inability to reach many of the...
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Crowd blocks troops from Najaf mosque
WASHINGTON, April 3: An angry crowd of Iraqi Shias prevented troops of the US 101st Airborne Division from approaching the Ali Mosque, a sacred Shiite site in the town of Najaf...
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US companies slash 108,000 jobs
WASHINGTON, April 4: US businesses, partially frozen by the buildup and launch of the Iraq invasion, axed 108,000 jobs last month, the government said on Friday....
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Columnist killed in accident
WASHINGTON, April 4: The Washington Post said on Friday that one of its editorial columnists, Michael Kelly, was killed in an accident involving a Humvee vehicle while traveling with US troops...
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Marine colonel relieved
AS SAYLIYA CAMP (Qatar), April 4: The US military said on Friday a Marine colonel in Iraq had been relieved of his command....
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Bush, Blair to meet on 7th
WASHINGTON, April 4: US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair will meet in Northern Ireland on Monday to discuss the peace process there, the war in Iraq,...
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Mystery of the missing Republican Guard
WASHINGTON/LONDON: The last few days have been a cause of great bemusement to military experts. Three divisions of the much-feared Republican Guard were said to be lined up south of Baghdad,...
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Pakistan needs to be watched: US scholars
WASHINGTON: Pakistan is a politically weak country with nuclear weapons and has to be watched carefully lest it spins out of control and destabilizes the entire region, said speakers at a...
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Oil not enough to help rebuild Iraq
LONDON/DUBAI: The reconstruction of Iraq will be the most expensive aid operation since the Marshall Plan for rebuilding Europe after World War Two, but wrangling between the US and Europe means...
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Pentagon names men to run Baghdad
WASHINGTON: A Pentagon lawyer who sought to have US citizens imprisoned indefinitely without charge as part of the ‘war on terrorism’ will supervise civil administration in Iraq once Saddam Hussein is...
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‘No post-war role for France, UN’
PARIS: Pentagon superhawk Richard Perle, one of the principal architects of the American war against Iraq, has told the French that they shouldn’t count on reaping any of the benefits of...
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Congressional allies pressing Bush to drop support for Palestinian state
WASHINGTON: President Bush’s latest bid for a Middle East peace deal is running into unexpected resistance from key allies in Congress, as Republicans and Democrats press the White House to adopt...
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