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US puts off conference on govt formation
BAGHDAD, May 21: The head of the US-led administration in Iraq, Paul Bremer, on Wednesday put off until July a planned meeting of Iraqi politicians to chart out the country’s political... 
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WHO adopts treaty against smoking
GENEVA, May 21: More than 190 countries on Wednesday approved the first ever international treaty against smoking, including an advertising ban, aimed at breaking a habit that kills nearly five million...
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Lawyer to appeal Belgium ruling: Case against Franks
BRUSSELS, May 21 : The lawyer seeking to have the commander of the US forces in Iraq tried for alleged war crimes on Wednesday attacked the Belgian government for passing the...
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Main points of draft resolution
UNITED NATIONS, May 21: The resolution to be adopted by the Security Council on Thursday will lift the 13-year-old UN sanctions on Iraq and put the levers of its economy into...
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Pro-US party opposes polls
BAGHDAD, May 21: The liberal Iraqi National Congress (INC) said on Wednesday that it supported US plans to defer elections for as long as two years because of the continuing power...
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Iraq was no threat, says senator
WASHINGTON, May 21: US Senator Robert Byrd on Wednesday issued a scathing denuniciation of White House over the Iraq invasion....
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South Korean to head WHO
GENEVA, May 21: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday officially named South Korean doctor Jong Wook Lee as the head of the UN health agency to replace Norway’s Gro Harlem...
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Europe impeding US initiatives: Bush
NEW LONDON, (USA), May 21: President George W. Bush accused Europe on Wednesday of impeding US efforts to combat famine and poverty in Africa and beyond, increasing trans-Atlantic tensions already strained...
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Israel forces Abbas to cancel Gaza tour: Bush may visit ME: paper
BEIT HANOUN (Gaza Strip), May 21: Israeli tanks forced the Palestinian prime minister to scrap a tour in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday amid reports that US President George W. Bush...
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US breaks off talks with Iran
WASHINGTON, May 21: The United States has broken off its unofficial dialogue with Iran after blaming it for harbouring Al Qaeda leaders who planned last week’s suicide attacks in Saudi Arabia,...
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US soldiers kill four Afghans in Kabul
 KABUL, May 21: US troops shot dead four Afghan soldiers and wounded four others outside the US embassy here on Wednesday when they mistakenly thought they were about to come under...
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Two die in Sweden blast
SALA (Sweden), May 21: Two people were killed and three others injured on Wednesday when one of Sweden’s largest military petrol depots blew up in Sala in central Sweden, emergency authorities...
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Gujarat told to explain curbs on conversion
AHMEDABAD, May 21: The top court in Gujarat on Wednesday asked for clarification from the Hindu-nationalist government on a controversial law restricting religious conversions....
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200 schools put on fire in Aceh: 60,000 students affected
BANDA ACEH (Indonesia), May 21: Indonesia’s military said on Wednesday it has sent crack troops to halt arson attacks on scores of schools in Aceh, where a major offensive against separatist...
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Africa’s AIDS drugs trapped in web
NAIROBI: There is no lock on the door, no phalanx of guards, no visible impediment to the drugs leaving the glass chamber that the laboratory technicians call a “stability room”. The...
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Amnesty warns of lives on the line
LONDON: The terms of laying a new oil pipeline from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean violate the human rights of people living along the line, Amnesty International warned on Tuesday....
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Will chaos become Bush’s undoing?: Iraq after occupation
WASHINGTON: It’s too early to suggest that peace in Iraq has already set some of the snares for President Bush that caught his father in 1991-92, although not having killed or...
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Cannes accused of ‘Taliban thinking’
CANNES: The Cannes film festival is an uncomfortable place to be an American. Or that at least is how it is beginning to be viewed through the distorting night-vision goggles of...
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