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US missile strike kills nine in Baghdad: Capital sees urban warfare
BAGHDAD, April 7: At least nine civilians were killed when a missile crashed into a residential neighborhood in central Baghdad on Monday.... 
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US police fire rubber bullets on protesters
 OAKLAND (California), April 7: Oakland police fired rubber bullets and wooden pellets on Monday to disperse hundreds of anti-war protesters in what was believed to be the first such use against...
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SARS death toll nears 100
HONG KONG, April 7: The death toll from a worldwide outbreak of a mysterious respiratory virus neared 100 on Monday as China reported two more deaths from the disease and another...
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19th day of the war
* US forces storm the heart of Baghdad, seizing two presidential palace complexes; US troops, tanks still occupy one of the palaces as night falls in the capital...
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Conditions ‘terrible’ in hospital, says ICRC
BAGHDAD, April 7: Grim scenes greeted Red Cross officials at the only Baghdad hospital they could reach through fighting on Monday, with casualties streaming in, surgeons working flat out and anaesthetics...
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Fischer refuses to visit Al Quds
TEL AVIV, April 7: German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer’s visit to Israel began with a diplomatic snub on Monday when the Israeli justice minister cancelled a meeting with him in a...
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France to make fingerprinting mandatory
PARIS, April 7: French Interior Minister Nicholas Sarkozy says that his long-awaited new immigration law would be introduced before Parliament by the end of the month, and it would include the...
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70,000 aliens benefit from UAE amnesty
ABU DHABI, April 7: More than 70,000 illegal immigrants have taken advantage of an amnesty, which ends on April 30, to leave the UAE....
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Two firms in BD deny US-UK link
DHAKA, April 7: Two foreign companies, Bata and Uro Cola, have taken out advertisements in the Dhaka dailies clarifying that they were not American or British firms....
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‘Chemical Ali’ dead: Hoon
LONDON, April 7: British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said on Monday there were strong indications that “Chemical Ali”, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s powerful cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, was dead....
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Basra descends into chaos
BASRA, April 7: Basra descended into chaotic scenes of lawlessness on Monday, with crowds of men and women taking out their anger at years of neglect by Saddam Hussein’s regime by...
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Commanders to decide stay period
AS SAYLIYA CAMP (Qatar), April 7: U.S. commanders who pushed into central Baghdad with tanks on Monday will decide whether or not to remain in captured areas of the city, the...
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Saudi Arabia calls for end to hostilities
RIYADH, April 7: Saudi Arabia on Monday repeated its call for an end to the invasion of Iraq and urged that innocent civilians be spared in the conflict....
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Differences emerge over interim authority for Iraq
WASHINGTON, April 7: The focus in Washington shifted to the formation of a new government in Iraq on Monday after US Central Command announced that coalition forces have captured key positions...
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China still an outsider in oil pipeline politics
ALMATY: China’s bid to become a new player in the Great Game of pipeline politics in oil-rich Central Asia appears doomed, oilmen and analysts say....
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Americans to stay put in Iraq
LONDON: America’s near-triumph in Iraq has been achieved with astonishing speed. But the likelihood is that US troops will be in Iraq for months, even years, to come. It will join...
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Pyongyang facing Beijing’s pressure
WASHINGTON: Recent Chinese moves to influence events in the Korean peninsula are part of a new assertiveness in Beijing that has dovetailed with closer economic and political ties with the United...
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Putin steps up anti-US rhetoric before polls
MOSCOW: Just after the beginning of the war in Iraq, President Vladimir Putin made an extremely tough statement condemning the US-led operation. There’s no reason to believe it was because the...
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SARS changes Asia’s cultural landscape
LOS ANGELES: In New Zealand, Maori tribesmen have been warned against performing their customary nose-rubbing greeting on tourists. In Thailand, visitors from affected countries are given mandatory medical check-ups at airports...
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Military win easier than political victory
CAIRO: US-led forces may achieve military victory in Iraq within a week or two, but winning the war politically is more uncertain and will take far longer....
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