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Hamas rejects Abbas’s plea to turn in weapons
GAZA CITY, April 29: The Hamas rejected on Tuesday a pledge by Palestinian prime minister-designate Mahmud Abbas to crack down on illegal weapons, saying the arms were needed “to defend ourselves...
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‘Roadmap’ should include Syria: FM
DAMASCUS, April 29: Syrian Foreign Minister Faruq al-Shara said on Tuesday the international “roadmap” aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should also include Syria and Lebanon....
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Powell to visit ME this week
WASHINGTON, April 29: US Secretary of State, Colin L. Powell, will travel to Europe and the Middle East, stopping over in Spain, Albania, Syria, and Lebanon, the State Department announced on...
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Cuba’s election to UN body angers US
UNITED NATIONS, April 29: Cuba was re-elected without opposition on Tuesday to the United Nations’ top human rights body, prompting a fierce response by Washington that it was “like putting Al...
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Putin opposes US, UK call for end to sanctions
NOVO-OGORYOVO (Russia), April 29: Russian President Vladimir Putin, setting himself at odds with the United States, said on Tuesday UN sanctions should not be lifted against Iraq until the existence of...
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Saddam to deliver message, says group
DUBAI, April 29: A previously unknown Iraqi group opposed to the US presence said on Tuesday former president Saddam Hussein was to deliver a message to his country within three days....
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Lawyer to file suit against Franks
BRUSSELS, April 29: A Belgian lawyer said on Tuesday he would file a lawsuit against General Tommy Franks, commander of US forces in Iraq, despite a warning from Washington against politically-motivated...
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TV network offers job to Sahhaf
DUBAI, April 29: An Arab TV news channel has offered a job to Saddam Hussein’s top spin doctor, former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Said al-Sahhaf....
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World overreacting to SARS: experts
WASHINGTON, April 29: People around the world are overreacting to SARS, creating a sense of panic that could overwhelm common-sense measures for containing the virus, top AIDS experts said on Monday....
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Israel finds fault with US ‘roadmap’
WASHINGTON: Playing off its swift victory in Iraq, the Bush administration is preparing to launch a new “roadmap” for Israeli-Palestinian peace that calls for a provisional Palestinian state this year before...
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China finesses US hardball on North Korea
SINGAPORE/BEIJING: The drawn-out negotiating process tried and tested by isolated North Korea for decades has begun with revelations it is softening its position on its nuclear ambitions....
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Photographer Cartier Bresson turns 94
PARIS: The veteran French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, universally recognized as one of the most influential image-makers of the last century, is honoured this week with an exhibition in Paris and the...
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Maoists stake claim to Nepal govt
KATHMANDU: Now that the peace negotiations to end the Maoist rebellion in Nepal are underway, the tough part follows — making sure that the rebels and the government, poles apart in...
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Resources become a curse for Africa
WARRI (Nigeria): Soldiers with mounted machineguns sit behind sandbags on the streets of this gritty oil town in southern Nigeria, enforcing a curfew by night and keeping an uneasy peace by...
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Payback time for anti-US states
WASHINGTON: In the aftermath of the Iraq war, the Bush administration has begun diplomatic reprisals against states that refused to support military action....
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Post-war reconstruction efforts have had dicey history
WASHINGTON: From Haiti to Bosnia to East Timor, the United States and the United Nations have stumbled time and again while pressing forward ambitious programmes designed to keep the peace and...
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