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France calls for UN-backed govt: Germany rejects peacekeeping role
PARIS, May 7: French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said on Wednesday US-led forces could not guarantee durable stability in Iraq, and urged the deployment of a multinational force with UN... 
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US asks Turkey to admit ‘mistakes’
ANKARA, May 7: Turkey on Wednesday rejected a call from Washington for to admit it made a mistake by denying the United States support in the war against Iraq....
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US faces EU sanctions threat over tax laws
BRUSSELS/GENEVA, May 7: The European Commission gave the United States an autumn deadline on Wednesday to change disputed tax break laws for major corporations or face the threat of up to...
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Abbas gets ready for crackdown
GAZA, May 7: Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas gave a key aide broader powers to curb anti-Israel attacks on Wednesday, loosening Yasser Arafat’s security grip in line with demands by international...
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Riyadh ready to work with interim govt
RIYADH, May 7: Saudi Arabia has expressed its willingness to deal with a future transitional government in Iraq as a first step toward a permanent post-Saddam Hussein administration, the Saudi foreign...
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LTTE may re-enter talks, says envoy
COLOMBO, May 7: LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran is set to sound the government next week about the LTTE’s possible decision to re-enter the peace talks, a Japanese peace envoy is said...
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Australian daily claims it has new Saddam tape
SYDNEY, May 7: An Australian newspaper said on Wednesday it had been handed an audiotape in Baghdad of a message possibly from Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein calling on his people to...
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Saudi police clash with gunmen
RIYADH, May 7: Saudi police are hunting for a score of militants believed to be holed up in a densely populated district of the capital after a shootout with security forces,...
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French-speaking imams planned
PARIS, May 7: France new single representative organism for French Muslims, the CFCM (Conseil francais du culte musulman), has decided to set as its first task the formation of imams who...
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Baath Party official held
LONDON, May 7: The US military said on Wednesday a regional commander of former president Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party on the US list of most-wanted Iraqis was in custody....
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US claims finding germ warfare lab
WASHINGTON, May 7: The United States claimed on Wednesday that its forces in Iraq had found a trailer used by the toppled government of President Saddam Hussein as a mobile biological...
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Al Qaeda ‘planning attack’
DUBAI, May 7: Al Qaeda is preparing a new attack in the United States on the scale of Sept 11 after adopting a new operational structure which is impenetrable to US...
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US to submit resolution soon
WASHINGTON, May 7: The United States expects to submit a resolution to the UN Security Council within days, calling for sanctions against Iraq to be lifted, a State Department official said...
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Open up or face Saddam-like fate, Iran’s hardliners warned
TEHRAN, May 7: Reformist Iranian MPs made a bold appeal on Wednesday to the Islamic republic’s powerful and entrenched conservative camp to give way to reforms and normalise relations with the...
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US official indicted in Kazakhstan over oil deals
ALMATY: The indictment of an American citizen on charges of funnelling $60 million in oil payments into his boss’ secret Swiss bank accounts, and speculation surrounding Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev’s role...
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Rich nations are undemocratic
WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS: Officials of global organizations and rich nations rarely admit it but civil society groups and developing countries say the sad fact has not changed: multilateral bodies meant to help...
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Nepal’s monarchy faces legitimacy test
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s King Gyanendra faces the sternest test ever in the face of the battle cry against monarchy, which has been rising since he assumed executive powers seven months ago and...
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Ivory Coast eyes long road to peace
BOUAKE (Ivory Coast): West African peacekeepers are building a wall on the road outside Tiebissou — the dividing line between Ivory Coast’s government-controlled south and the rebel-held north....
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Poland caught between US, EU
WARSAW: A certain malaise and tension has permeated relations between European Union powerhouses Germany and France and their current NATO and future EU partner Poland since it opted to back the...
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G8 summit brings pleasure, hassle
GENEVA: Ever since the violent clashes at the 2001 G8 summit in Genoa, in which one demonstrator was killed by police, the world leaders have preferred smaller places for their annual...
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