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Baghdad ‘governor’ arrested by US: Another Saddam aide held
BAGHDAD, April 27: US forces seeking to restore order to Iraq swooped on Sunday on the self-appointed governor of Baghdad, arresting him for trying to run the capital without their authority.... 
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Iraqis protest lack of water, power
BAGHDAD, April 27: Iraqis on Sunday stepped up demands that water and electricity be restored ahead of an expected visit to the country by US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld....
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Democracy cannot be force-fed: Jordan FM
WASHINGTON, April 27: Jordanian Foreign Minister Marwan Moasher said on Sunday that US officials must be careful to help foster an “inclusive” Iraqi government, warning that there can be no “force-feeding”...
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$400m stolen from banks: US
BAGHDAD, April 27: Some 400 million dollars’ worth of foreign currency was stolen from Iraqi banks in the looting spree that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein, a senior US treasury...
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US soldiers ambushed
AS-SALIYAH, April 27: Four US soldiers were injured on Sunday in an ambush in Baghdad that apparently involved a single assailant, the US Central Command said from its war headquarters in...
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Franks may get top post
WASHINGTON, April 27: US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld plans to offer the top army post to General Tommy Franks, who led coalition forces to victory in Iraq, according to a report...
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Cinemas, theatres closed in Beijing to contain SARS
TAIPEI-TORONTO, April 27: Taiwan banned visitors from areas most hit by SARS on Sunday and Beijing closed theaters, cinemas and other entertainment centers as the battle to contain the spread of...
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Yemenis go to the polls
SANAA, April 27: Yemenis crowded polling stations on Sunday to vote for their third parliament since the country’s unification in 1990, keen to display their democratic credentials after the US-led war...
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Israel’s HC endorses use of dart bombs
AL QUDS, April 27: Israel’s high court on Sunday rejected a petition by two human rights organizations against the Israeli army’s use of dart bombs, Israel Radio reported....
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Abbas not to attend ME talks if Arafat isolated
RAMALLAH, April 27: Palestinian prime minister-designate Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday he would not visit foreign capitals to discuss peace moves until Israel allowed President Yasser Arafat to travel freely again....
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US looks forward to a subservient UN
WASHINGTON: The Bush administration is preparing a draft security council resolution that would reduce the United Nations to a marginal role advising the US on running Iraq until the creation of...
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Global effort to rebuild shattered Iraqi heritage
MUMBAI: The shock at the cultural destruction in Baghdad is gathering as news of the scale of loss spreads, but for historians, scholars, cultural anthropologists and archaeologists around the world, the...
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Better drugs for malaria sufferers sought
LONDON: Malaria, already responsible for at least a fifth of all deaths of children under five in Africa, will continue to increase its hold on the continent unless Britain and the...
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West may have to help poor states beat SARS
 LONDON: We’re unsure where it came from, have no treatment for it and no idea when or where it will spread next. The virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)...
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Germany mending fences with US
BERLIN: After the angry fall-out with the US over the Iraq war, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s red-green government is now busy attempting to improve ties with Washington....
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Palestinian unity is the first step to peace
LONDON: Not for the first time, the Palestinians have been forgotten. All the international angst over the roadmap to Middle East peace has focused on the other players in the drama,...
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