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| May 17, 2003 | Saturday | Rabi-ul-Awwal 14, 1424 |
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Top Baath party members banned from govt jobs
BAGHDAD, May 16: The new US boss in Iraq, Paul Bremer, on Friday banned top members of Saddam Hussein’s Baath party from government jobs as he moved swiftly to make his... 
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West alarmed over spike in ‘chatter’
WASHINGTON, May 16: Alarmed by a huge increase in intercepted communications indicating that Al Qaeda-related terrorist attacks may be imminent, the United States, Australia and Britain have issued a flurry of...
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16 awarded death in BD
DHAKA, May 16: A special tribunal on Wednesday sentenced 16 people to death for a grisly double murder at Sutrapur three years ago, in which the victims were hacked to pieces....
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Iraqi PoWs say they were tortured: AI
LONDON, May 16: At least 20 Iraqi prisoners of war, including civilians, have accused British and US troops of torturing them, the international human rights group Amnesty International said on Friday....
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Al Qaeda planning attacks: report
RIYADH, May 16: The Al Qaeda network is planning major attacks in various cities of the Gulf, it was revealed in an e-mail sent to the Al-Mujalla magazine, just before the...
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Highlights of US draft
NEW YORK, May 16: The following are the highlights of the new US Draft:...
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Alcohol sellers warned
BAGHDAD, May 16: Shia religious leader Mohammed al-Fartussi on Friday threatened “sinful women,” alcohol sellers and cinemas of grave consequences if they did not stop their practices within a week....
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Only 1 in 3 Israelis back roadmap: poll
AL QUDS, May 16: A new opinion poll on Friday showed only about one in three Israelis supports an international peace plan known as the “roadmap”....
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Brigitte Bardot to be sued
PARIS, May 16: Actress Brigitte Bardot is being sued in France for having engaged in “racial hatred” in her latest book....
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UK backtracks over Iraq’s WMDs
LONDON: The United Kingdom back-tracked on the contentious issue of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction on Wednesday when the British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, was forced to concede that hard evidence...
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Haggling begins over reforms at EU
BRUSSELS: Valery Giscard D’estang is offering Europe’s smallest countries a grand bargain if they back a permanent president of the enlarged EU as the centrepiece of the union’s new constitution....
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Eritrea again slips into chaos
ASMARA (Eritrea): After Eritrea’s plucky freedom fighters won their guerilla war of independence against Ethiopia, the new country formed along the Red Sea was warmly welcomed by much of the international...
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Indonesia may yet be on road to stability
JAKARTA: At the end Suharto was even capable of admitting “mistakes and errors” he had made during his 32 years in power in Indonesia before he resigned on May 21, 1998,...
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US asks courts to deny foreign victims right to sue
WASHINGTON: In a move that has provoked outrage from human rights groups here, Attorney General John Ashcroft has asked a federal appeals court to effectively nullify a 214-year-old law that has...
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Misadventure at US border
MEXICO: Desperation born from lack of work pushes more than 400,000 Mexicans and Central Americans every year to embark on a dangerous adventure in pursuit of the “American dream”....
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Industrial fleets strip oceans of big fish
LOS ANGELES: Industrial fishing fleets have systematically stripped 90 per cent of the giant tuna, swordfish, marlin and other big fish from the world’s oceans, according to a new study that...
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