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Hundreds of thousands protest US aggression
 PARIS, April 12: Hundreds of thousands of opponents of the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq held new anti-war protests Saturday, arguing that the regime’s collapse was no reason to let...
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US military unwilling to take up police duty
DOHA, April 12: Faced with international outrage at the breakdown of law and order in Iraq, the US military on Saturday sought to play down the scale of the chaos unleashed...
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US officials believe Saddam died in April 7 attack
WASHINGTON, April 12: US intelligence has intercepted communications between former Iraqi leaders indicating that Saddam Hussein was killed during a US air strike on a Baghdad building on Monday (April 7)...
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N. Korea hints at accepting talks on nuclear issue
SEOUL, April 12: North Korea said on Saturday it would accept any form of dialogue with the United States over its suspected nuclear programme should Washington abandon its hostile policy toward...
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Israel to moot 15 changes in plan
TEL AVIV, April 12: Israel will present 15 reservations to the United States next week over a US-backed peace “road map” that calls for a Palestinian state by 2005, senior Israeli...
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Bush unlikely to visit Canada
TORONTO, April 12: US President George Bush has postponed his trip to Ottawa next month because of his displeasure with Canada’s stance on the Iraq invasion and recent anti-US criticism from...
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Middle East media charge US with inciting Iraq chaos
BEIRUT, April 12: Arab media slammed the United States on Saturday for chaos in Iraq, charging Washington has encouraged vengence attacks and looting to ensure a compliant government is installed in...
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US will respond, Perle tells Syria
PARIS, April 12: Richard Perle, one of the U.S. architects of the aggression against Iraq, has warned Syria that Washington would “have to respond” if Damascus was hiding Iraqi weapons of...
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Sahhaf’s fan club
LOS ANGELES, April 12: People around the world have taken a liking to the public relations stylings of former Iraqi information minister Mohammed Saeed al Sahhaf. Too many people, apparently....
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Residents claim they saw Qusay after bombing
BAGHDAD, April 12: Residents of a Baghdad suburb said on Saturday they saw Saddam Hussein’s younger son Qusay alive shortly after US bombs flattened a building where US officials had tried...
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Eastward expansion of EU approved
BRUSSELS: The European Parliament approved the eastward expansion of the European Union this week, after resolving a dispute which had threatened the signing ceremony of 10 new candidate countries....
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US, UK form secret inspection teams: UN bypassed
LONDON: Britain and the United States have bypassed the United Nations to establish a secret team of inspectors to resume the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, it emerged...
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Jenin shaken by Iraq events
JENIN: The first casualty of the US blitz on Baghdad was a Palestinian taxi driver, a cruel twist of fate for a West Bank city which has felt a special kinship...
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Before and after the Iraq invasion
BEFORE the beginning of the Iraq War, two of the most popular hosts of the late night shows here made the following comments:...
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Former ruler eyes Nigerian presidency
KANO (Nigeria): The young man hawking T-shirts at a campaign rally in northern Nigeria said he had no regrets in undertaking a long road journey to see his favourite presidential candidate,...
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Turkey keeps option open of sending in troops
ATHENS: Turkey held out the option of deploying more troops to northern Iraq on Saturday, if Kurdish fighters failed to relinquish control of two key cities in the region....
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