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Powell says France to be ‘punished’
WASHINGTON, April 23: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday that France would face consequences for its opposition to the Iraq invasion as senior aides to President George Bush... 
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US signs accord with ‘terrorist’ group
ASHRAF (Iraq), April 23: A ceasefire agreement reached with US forces allows the Iraq-based People’s Mujahideen, branded terrorist by Washington, to keep their arms while maintaining their war against the...
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Shia power misjudged, say papers
WASHINGTON, April 23: The Bush administration underestimated the organizational power of Iraqi Shias and is unprepared to prevent the rise of an anti-American, “Islamist” government in Iraq, U.S. newspapers said on...
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Sanctions must be lifted: US
WASHINGTON, April 23: The United States insisted on Wednesday that UN sanctions against Iraq must be lifted and not just suspended, in an apparent rebuff of a French proposal to the...
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US asks Iran to ‘stay out’
WASHINGTON, April 23: Caught unaware by the political assertiveness of Iraq’s Shia community, many of whom are friendly to Iran, the United States said on Wednesday it was telling Tehran to...
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Rumsfeld, Powell rift becomes public
WASHINGTON, April 23: The growing rift between two key members of the Bush administration, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, became public on Wednesday after a major...
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Saddam in Iraq: Hoon
UMM QASR, April 23: British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said on Wednesday he thought former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was still alive and in the country....
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Charges against Galloway serious: Blair
LONDON, April 23: British Prime Minister Tony Blair was treating as “serious,” allegations that a member of his ruling Labour party was in the pay of Saddam Hussein’s regime, his official...
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US, British goods face boycott
GENEVA, April 23: US and British goods face the prospect of significant boycott in France and Germany over the decision of the two English-speaking powers to invade Iraq, according to a...
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Three marines killed
AS-SALIYAH, April 23: Three US marines were killed and seven others injured when a rocket-propelled grenade launcher malfunctioned and exploded, the US Central Command said Wednesday. —AFP...
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Tourists asked not to visit Toronto, Beijing: WHO warning on SARS
BEIJING/TORONTO, April 23: Saying SARS was still spreading out of control, the World Health Organization tightened travel advisories on Wednesday, adding Beijing and Toronto to the list, while authorities in Beijing...
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US begins talks with N. Korea
BEIJING, April 23: US Asia envoy James Kelly on Wednesday had a first round of low-key nuclear talks in Beijing with “axis of evil” foe North Korea....
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Indonesian preacher’s trial starts
JAKARTA, April 23: Indonesia put a preacher suspected of leading a violent Southeast Asian Muslim network on trial for treason on Wednesday, a landmark case in the crackdown on radicals in...
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Disaster
MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov praised US and North Korean efforts to defuse a nuclear crisis on Wednesday, but Moscow’s top Asia expert said the stand-off had left the Korean...
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Wartime taxes stir uproar in Lok Sabha
NEW DELHI, April 23: An official finding that New Delhi diverted wartime taxes to meet general expenses sparked uproar in the Indian parliament on Wednesday....
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Lankan forces put on alert
COLOMBO, April 23: The Sri Lankan government announced on Wednesday that it had put its army, police, navy and air force on high alert after the LTTE formally declared that they...
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US hawks move to control ME policy: Drive to make State Dept ‘neo-imperial’
WASHINGTON: Only a week after US military forces consolidated their control of Baghdad, a new war has broken out, this time in Washington....
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Turkey,US share strategic vision
ANKARA: The role that Turkey could, or should, play in Operation Iraqi Freedom has been much debated in both Turkey and the United States. Unfortunately, in the course of the debate,...
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Teenagers found at Guantanamo
WASHINGTON: Authorities at the US Naval Base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have discovered that several of their detainees are juveniles and have begun providing them special care while trying to sort...
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What Bosnia lessons can be tried in Iraq
LONDON: Now comes the difficult part, what the author Rudyard Kipling described as “winning the savage war of peace.” The coalition has won the war in Iraq, but could still lose...
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