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Russia obstructing reconstruction: US
WASHINGTON, May 6: Russia is obstructing progress on the reconstruction of Iraq, refusing to curtail dangerous nuclear cooperation with Iran and not using its leverage to ease crises in the Middle... 
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Saudi Arabia, Qatar to set up HR bodies
RIYADH, May 6: Saudi Arabia and Qatar announced on Tuesday the establishment of human rights organizations....
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WMDs search ‘not a top priority’
BAQUBAH, May 6: US troops in Iraq say finding Saddam Hussein’s alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) is not yet a top priority despite mounting pressure on Washington to justify the...
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Qatar gets first woman minister
DOHA, May 6: Qatar on Tuesday appointed Sheikha bint Ahmed Al-Mahmud as the Gulf state’s first woman cabinet minister and she was immediately sworn in....
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Mercury to transit across Sun today
PARIS, May 6: Astronomers in many parts of the world will be in for a rare treat on Wednesday when Mercury will transit across the face of the Sun, appearing as...
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Iran’s MPs take step towards referendum
TEHRAN, May 6: Iran’s reformist-controlled parliament amended on Tuesday a law covering the staging of referendums, in a signal the embattled movement was pressing ahead with its plan to confront its...
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Paris helped wanted Iraqis escape: daily
WASHINGTON, May 6: France secretly supplied passports to Iraqi officials fleeing US troops after the fall of Saddam Hussein, allowing them to escape to Europe, the Washington Times said on Tuesday,...
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France, US working on hi-tech passport
PARIS, May 6: Despite a deep rift over Iraq, France and the United States agreed on Monday to work together on a hi-tech “passport of the future” as part of the...
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US monitoring settlements: Israeli paper
TEL AVIV, May 6: US satellites are checking that Israel is fulfilling its peace plan obligations by freezing settlement expansion and dismantling outposts in the West Bank, the Maariv newspaper said...
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‘Welcome to Palestine’
TEL AVIV, May 6: A pilot for Italian state airline, Alitalia, has been yanked from flights into Israel after announcing to passengers “welcome to Palestine” on landing in Tel Aviv, Israeli...
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UK MP suspended
LONDON, May 6: Britain’s ruling Labour Party suspended leading anti-war politician George Galloway on Tuesday over an outspoken attack on Prime Minister Tony Blair and US President George Bush during the...
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Sharon ready to meet Syrians
TEL AVIV, May 6: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told visiting US envoy William Burns on Monday that he was “ready to meet Syrian leaders, when and where they choose, and...
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Saddam took away $1bn in cash: NYT
WASHINGTON, May 6: Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein allegedly removed nearly one billion dollars in cash from Iraq’s Central Bank shortly before US forces began bombing Baghdad in March, the New...
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Germany be included in force: Poland
WASHINGTON, May 6: Poland on Tuesday pressed the United States to open up its planned “stabilization force” for Iraq to more countries as possible, including Germany. The Polish foreign minister said...
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Hawks ask Bush to target Iran
WASHINGTON: With Iraq under US occupation and Syria shaken by a series of high-level threats from the administration here, Iran is now looming as a major target for US pressure....
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Appetite for authoritarianism spawns an American gulag
WASHINGTON: Last week, the United States confirmed it is holding children under 16 at Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In keeping with the other shadowy facts about this camp, it...
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Sisulu: a voice of moderation
LOS ANGELES: Walter Sisulu, the South African anti-apartheid campaigner who died on Monday, spent more than 25 years in prison alongside Nelson Mandela and, with Mandela, helped shape...
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US plays hardball
WASHINGTON: The details had been ironed out after more than two years of negotiations, with Chile and Singapore both about to complete free-trade agreements with the United States....
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Lawmaker derides Halliburton links
WASHINGTON: Halliburton, the oil services giant once headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, has done business in Iran, Iraq and Libya for years despite US embargoes, according to documents released by...
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No reason to believe that poverty will be addressed
LONDON: The global economy is working. The rich may be acquiring an ever greater share of the world’s wealth, the ecosystem may be collapsing, but — or so we believe —...
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