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US accused of ‘crime of the century’ : Pillage of Baghdad museum
BAGHDAD, April 18: US troops committed the “crime of the century” when they failed to protect priceless Iraqi artifacts from looters and likely trampled archeological sites, top antiquities officials here alleged... 
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Blair says he was ready to resign
LONDON, April 18: British Prime Minister Tony Blair said in an interview published on Friday that he had instructed officials to prepare for his resignation if he lost a crucial parliamentary...
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N. Korea ‘reprocessing’ nuclear fuel rods
SEOUL, April 18: North Korea dramatically raised the stakes in its nuclear standoff with the United States on Friday by saying it was “successfully reprocessing” more than 8,000 spent nuclear fuel...
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Lankan town tense after kidnapping
MUTTUR (Sri Lanka), April 18: Muslim and Tamil mobs clashed in eastern Sri Lanka on Friday, witnesses said, as cabinet ministers met to solve the latest crisis threatening the island’s peace...
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Baath Party leader arrested
AS-SALIYAH (Qatar), April 18: US-led troops in Iraq have captured a top official of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party, Samir al-Aziz al-Najim, Brigadier General Vincent Brooks announced here on Friday....
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Pope hears Good Friday confessions
 VATICAN CITY, April 18: Pope John Paul continued a Good Friday tradition by hearing the confessions of ordinary Catholics in St Peter’s Basilica despite concerns over his workload during Holy Week....
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Chalabi sees no role for him or UN in Iraq
BAGHDAD, April 18: Pro-American Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi said on Friday the United States should oversee post-war Iraq and the United Nations lacked the capability and credibility to take a leadership...
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Chinese officials told not to cover up SARS cases
HONG KONG, April 18: China’s new president on Friday ordered health officials to stop covering up the SARS epidemic, as US authorities said a first test for the killer pneumonia could...
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International flights from Srinagar
SRINAGAR, April 18: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee said on Friday international flights would operate out of Srinagar, but did not specify when the service would start....
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14 Filipinos killed in violent ritual
CUTUD (Philippines), April 18: Fourteen Filipino devotees, including four women, were nailed to the cross in a macabre re-enactment of Jesus Christ’s suffering on Good Friday that has become an annual...
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Research on Muslim states to suffer: daily
WASHINGTON, April 18: The Iraq invasion and the feelings it has stirred in the Muslim world has forced the cancellation or postponement of hundreds of research trips by US scholars to...
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Uncertainties surround US-North Korea talks
WASHINGTON: While heartened by Thursday’s announcement of talks between North Korea, the United States and China in Beijing next week, specialists here are worried that Washington may be unwilling to make...
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Missing WMDs cast doubts on war
WASHINGTON: The remarkable images of the fall of Baghdad, while not signalling the end of “Operation Iraqi Freedom,” do bring to an end a critical phase of the military operation —...
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Famine grips Ethiopia again
ADDIS ABABA: These should be reasonably good times for Tadese Konta in the lowlands of southern Ethiopia. The spring rains should have come two months ago, her young husband should be...
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Kurds accused of expelling Arabs
DAQOUQ: Iraqi Arabs claim they are being forcibly expelled from homes and villages in and around the northern city of Kirkuk by Kurds who are bent on undoing years of their...
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Expanding EU woos Russia
ATHENS: The EU reached out beyond its expanding borders this week to call for closer relations with powerful neighbours such as Russia and Ukraine, both too big ever to join the...
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CIA helped Baathists gain power in Iraq: ex-official
PHILADELPHIA: If the United States succeeds in shepherding the creation of a Iraqi government, it won’t be the first time that Washington has played a primary role in changing the country’s...
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Chalabi’s return worries Jordan
AMMAN: An Iraqi aristocrat who fled Jordanian justice in the boot of a car is now back in Baghdad as a possible US choice to lead post-Saddam Iraq, and his return...
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