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Major Iraq fighting over, says Bush
WASHINGTON, May 2: President George W. Bush welcomed the end of major combat in Iraq from the decks of an American warship on Thursday against a backdrop of cheering US sailors.... 
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Death toll in Turkish earthquake rises
BINGOL (Turkey) May 2: The death toll in a powerful earthquake which jolted the eastern Turkish province of Bingol has climbed to 127, local officials said Friday....
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Iraqis demand US restore order: Two more Saddam aides held
BAGHDAD, May 2: Iraqi mosque preachers sought to calm tensions with US troops on Friday and demanded that the United States establish a government to restore order after President George W....
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India to export missiles: reports
NEW DELHI, May 2: India will soon begin selling missiles to “friendly countries”, media reports quoting defence sources said Friday....
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Mass graves found near Karbala
KARBALA-BAGHDAD, May 2: Hundreds of human remains were retrieved from a mass grave near Karbala by local residents on Friday....
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CPJ flays Kashmiri group
NEW YORK, May 2: The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has in a press release issued on Thursday condemned the threat issued this week by the militant group Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen...
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Iranian cleric calls on Iraqis to rise up
TEHRAN, May 2: A leading Iranian conservative cleric said on Friday the Iraqi people have no other choice but to rise up against occupying US troops and stage suicide attacks to...
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French diplomat returns to Baghdad
PARIS, May 2: In stark contrast to Britain, which this week publicly announced the reopening of its diplomatic representation in Iraq, France has decided to make its return quietly with a...
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SARS peaks in Beijing as crucial time starts
 BEIJING, May 2: China said on Friday the worst appeared to be over for SARS-stricken Beijing as international experts said China faced a crucial battle in the next few months to...
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Columbia was doomed on re-entry: NASA
WASHINGTON, May 2: The US space shuttle Columbia could not have been saved once it began its return to Earth, not even by reducing its weight or changing its trajectory, a...
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UN changes its colour scheme in Iraq
UMM QASR, May 2: The United Nations has stopped using its trademark white vehicles in Iraq after some were stolen and used against US-led troops, a UN official said on Friday....
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Rumsfeld meets Blair, Jordan’s King Abdullah
LONDON, May 2: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld held talks Friday on postwar Iraq with British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the top US ally in the war....
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EC readies 15m euro deal for Turkish Cyprus
BRUSSELS, May 2: The European Commission said on Friday it was finalising a 15-million-euro development package for Turkish Cyprus to reinforce peace moves on the divided island....
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EU urges Israel, Palestinians to embrace ‘road map’
RHODES (Greece) May 2: The European Union urged Israel and Palestinians on Friday to start implementing the newly published “road map” and said it would lobby neighbouring states such as Syria...
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Iraq’s direction may be similar to Japan’s
TOKYO: Iraq and Japan are on opposite sides of the world, but analysts here see parallells between the US-designed path that Japan took after its surrender in World War II —...
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Kurds wonder what they will gain from war
ARBIL: For Iraqi Kurds, the euphoria over Saddam Hussein’s defeat has quickly turned to concern over what the minority group stands to gain, if anything, for its support of the US...
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US media accused of aiding war propaganda
PHILADELPHIA: It is one of the most famous images of the war in Iraq — a US soldier scaling a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad and draping the Stars and...
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Process to try Iraqi PoWs could take months
WASHINGTON: With more than a dozen key Iraqi officials in custody, the United States is debating how best to deal with them and other suspects in what officials and experts said...
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Burglars threaten to derail Chechnya’s reconstruction
GROZNY: As Chechnya struggles to repair the damage to its infrastructure caused by a decade of conflict, there may be more than ravages of war to overcome as rampant theft of...
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Dogs being tested to sniff for cancers
LONDON: If Barbara Sommerville, a vet at the University of Cambridge, in England, is funded to test the idea, we will soon find out how dogs can sniff out human cancers....
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