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Minister quits to protest UK stand: Blair accused of breaking promises
LONDON, May 12: Britain’s aid minister Clare Short stormed out of government on Monday, accusing Prime Minister Tony Blair of breaking promises on Iraq and savaging his “presidential” style of rule.... 
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Sharon forces Powell to leave ME empty-handed
AL QUDS, May 12: US Secretary of State Colin Powell ended his peacemaking visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories empty-handed on Monday, with Israel still challenging the roadmap and all...
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12 Muslims put on trial in Netherlands
ROTTERDAM (Netherlands) May 12: The trial of 12 suspected Muslim militants charged under a rarely used law with helping Osama bin Laden’s network wage “holy war” opened here on Monday with...
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Scientist taken into custody
WASHINGTON, May 12: US forces have taken into custody two more key figures from Iraq’s toppled government, the British-educated microbiologist dubbed “Dr Germ” and the former armed forces chief of staff,...
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Americans losing democracy: Arundhati
NEW YORK, May 12: The United States government is waging “a spurious war on terror” that is costing Americans their freedoms and democracy, Indian writer and human rights activist Arundhati Roy...
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US sending new team for WMD search
WASHINGTON, May 12: With evidence of weapons of mass destruction elusive, the United States and its war allies are replacing arms inspectors in Iraq with a new, larger team that will...
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Trial of Bali blast suspect begins
DENPASAR (Indonesia) May 12: The first suspect in the devastating terror bombings on the Indonesian resort island went on trial, here on Monday....
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Fundamentalist govt not desirable: US
CAIRO, May 12: US Secretary of State Colin Powell warned here on Monday that the emergence of an Islamist government in Iraq would “not be in the best interest of the...
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Discrimination at workplace rampant: ILO
GENEVA, May 12: Discrimination remains rampant in the workplace worldwide, depriving women, ethnic and religious minorities and migrants of equal jobs or pay, a report from the International Labour Organisation (ILO)...
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US holding bio-terror drill
WASHINGTON, May 12: The most extensive bio-terrorism drill in US history began on Monday, with officials handling an imaginary radioactive attack in Seattle and handling a fake threat of a pneumonic...
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Vajpayee to visit China
NEW DELHI, May 12: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee plans to visit China next month, Defence Minister George Fernandes said on Monday....
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Saddam, sons in Iraq: Chalabi
DUBAI, May 12: Ousted president Saddam Hussein and his sons Uday and Qusay are still alive and in Iraq, Ahmed Chalabi, head of the US-backed opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress,...
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More US officials to be recalled
WASHINGTON, May 12: The Bush administration has decided to recall four more officials working with Jay Garner, the Pentagon-appointed administrator in Iraq, The New York Times reported on Monday....
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NATO cautious about jumping into Iraq role
BRUSSELS: NATO could eventually help to stabilize Iraq, but is in no hurry to commit itself after being almost ripped apart by the crisis before the war began, diplomats say....
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Spies digging WMDs turn on each other
LONDON/TAJI/NEW YORK: The Iraqi military base at Taji does not look like a place of global importance. It is a desolate expanse of bunkers and hangars surrounded by barbed wire and...
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US considering plans to tackle emergencies
WASHINGTON: Early on March 4, 1996, a train derailed in the small Wisconsin town of Weyauwega. The toppled cars held a million pounds of liquid propane, some of which erupted, forming...
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Jordanians remember Chalabi as a crook
AMMAN: Hailed by some in the Pentagon as a pro-American visionary and an emerging leader of the new Iraq, Ahmed Chalabi evokes quite a different response in Jordan, where he spent...
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TV ads to disappear gradually, says study
HAMBURG: Television commercials will soon be a thing of the past, according to a new study in Germany which warns TV networks to begin planning now for the “post-commercial age” of...
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