Mosul captured without fight: •Iraqi forces abandon city •looting, arson break out all over
 BAGHDAD, April 11: US and Kurdish forces completed their conquest of northern Iraq on Friday by taking Mosul, but Baghdad....
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Medical system in Baghdad collapses: Lawlessness adds to miseries
GENEVA, April 11: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Friday that Baghdad’s medical system had all but collapsed because of combat damage, looting and fear of anarchy....
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Musharraf invites PPP for talks
ISLAMABAD, April 11: President Pervez Musharraf has extended an “indirect invitation” to the People’s Party Parliamentarians to discuss the Legal Framework Order and other related...
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MMA not to hinder session
ISLAMABAD, April 11: The combined opposition in the National Assembly is expected to change its strategy of protest against the Legal Framework Order (LFO) in the NA session starting from April...
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US invites opposition for talks
LONDON, April 11: The United States has invited Iraqi opposition representatives to a meeting near Nasiriyah, in southern Iraq, on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Iraqi National Congress and US officials...
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Washington fences against protests
WASHINGTON, April 11: Washington again is a fenced city, at least partially. By Friday afternoon, police had fenced most of the roads leading to the White House and the World Bank,...
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Chalabi sees early power transfer to civilians
NASIRIYAH, April 11: Ahmad Chalabi, pro-West Iraq leader widely tipped to become the next leader of Iraq, on Friday predicted a swift transition of power from US administrators to civilian rule,...
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Country’s security ensured: president
PESHAWAR, April 11: President Gen Pervez Musharraf has lauded the motivation, devotion to duty and professionalism of the armed forces during the recent escalation of tension, which, he said, had ensured...
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Lashker denies hand in Nadimarg massacre
NEW DELHI, April 11: A day after the Kashmir police claimed the arrest of a top Lashker-i-Taiba militant, accusing him of involvement in the recent massacre of 24 Kashmiri Hindus, the...
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US issues list of 55 Iraqi leaders for arrest or killing
WASHINGTON, April 11: The United States announced on Friday a most-wanted list of former Iraqi leaders who, Washington says “must be brought to justice.”...
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Balochistan wants funds to be given judiciously
QUETTA, April 11: Balochistan Finance Minister Syed Ehsan Shah has said that a meeting of the National Finance Commission (NFC) will be held in Karachi on April 18-19 to discuss the...
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Russia may write off debt: Putin
SAINT PETERSBURG, April 11: Russian President Vladimir Putin said here on Friday that Moscow was ready to look into the possibility of forgiving Iraq’s debts....
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Israeli fire kills Briton in Gaza
GAZA CITY, April 11: A 21-year-old Briton was pronounced clinically dead on Friday after being hit in the head and critically wounded by Israeli sniper fire in Rafah refugee camp in...
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Saddam rejected Russian offer
MOSCOW, April 11: The veteran Kremlin envoy pleaded with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to step down only three days before the US guns opened up on Baghdad....
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Hurriyat chief quizzed
SRINAGAR, April 11: Indian police on Thursday questioned the chief of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference over money seized from a woman arrested outside Pakistan’s diplomatic mission in New Delhi....
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No list of states to be attacked, says Powell
WASHINGTON, April 11: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Thursday that Washington did not have a list of nations it planned to attack, as he tried to quell speculation...
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US ship attackers escape
SANAA, April 11: Ten Yemenis awaiting trial over the deadly Oct 2000 attack on the USS Cole destroyer escaped from a jail in the southern port of Aden on Friday....
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Earthquake rocks Afghanistan
KABUL, April 11: An earthquake rocked a remote province of northern Afghanistan on Thursday night, causing some casualties and destroying 200 houses....
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