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Four German soldiers killed in Kabul attack
KABUL, June 7: Three German peacekeepers were among six people killed by a devastating car-bomb attack on a bus carrying foreign peacekeeping troops in Kabul, in the deadliest attack to date... 
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Missing Iraqi relics found in secret vault
BAGHDAD, June 7: Almost all of the priceless items feared stolen from the Baghdad Museum when it was ransacked by looters have been found safe in a secret vault, the US-led...
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UN inspectors arrive in Tehran
TEHRAN, June 7: UN inspectors arrived in Iran on Saturday, a top official said, a day after the UN’s nuclear watchdog alleged that Tehran had failed to honour its nuclear safeguards...
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US rejects calls for elected council
BAGHDAD, June 7: Paul Bremer, the US overseer for Iraq, said on Saturday that he had agreed to amend his plans for an interim Iraqi administration but rejected demands for it...
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UN envoy meets Myanmar leader
YANGON, June 7: UN envoy Razali Ismail met the Myanmar junta’s number-three on Saturday to push for a meeting with democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and seek her release after...
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Curfew in Jalandhar
CHANDIGARH, June 7: A curfew was imposed on Saturday in parts of East Punjab as police intervened in riots involving lower caste Hindus and upper caste landowners that left one youth...
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Palestinians to get money for handover of weapons
 TEL AVIV, June 7: Palestinian security chief Mohammed Dahlan is to offer armed Palestinian groups six thousand dollars apiece for guns they possess in a bid to rid the Palestinian territories...
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RSF deplores blocking of access to website
PARIS, June 7: Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) the international journalism rights organization has decided to protest the Pakistan government’s blocking of access to the South Asia Tribune, a US-based investigative news...
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Advani ordered ‘demolition of mosque’
LUCKNOW, June 7: Five Hindu activists accused over the demolition of the Babri mosque said on Saturday Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani had ordered them to destroy the ancient structure....
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Liberians streaming into capital
MONROVIA, June 7: Thousands more fled into the centre of panic-stricken Monrovia on Saturday as fighting continued on the edge of the Liberian capital between government troops and rebel forces....
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UN experts at Iraq’s looted N-plant
TUWAITHA, June 7: UN nuclear experts arrived at Iraq’s largest nuclear facility on Saturday to begin a two-week inspection, a US official said at the site, amid fears of widespread contamination...
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CIA ‘buckled’ on Iraq, says historian
WASHINGTON, June 7: The CIA bowed to Bush administration pressure to hype the threat of Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs ahead of the US-led war in Iraq, a leading national security historian...
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Popular resistance to US presence
FALLUJA: Iraqis carrying hammers and axes on Friday began to demolish a police station in the troubled city of Falluja in a public act of defiance against the US military....
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Morality of US foreign policy under debate: Aftermath of global poll
WASHINGTON: After the Sept 11, 2001 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, the big question here was, “Why do they hate us?”...
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Groundwater diminishing everywhere, says UN
LONDON: Groundwater, the unseen source of life for two billion people, is diminishing almost everywhere in the world, according to a study published on Thursday by the UN Environment Programme....
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EU nearing accord on constitution
BRUSSELS: Europe’s race for a constitution reached the home stretch on Friday night with a deal creating a new EU president and buying off small countries worried about losing power....
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Votes cast over the Internet
PARIS: It is a “revolutionary” step that France has just taken in becoming the first country in the world to make use of the Internet to vote for members of a...
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IAEA says it was given bogus documents
LONDON: UN weapons inspectors on Friday flatly contradicted claims by Tony Blair that they were given information from “a number of sources” about Iraq trying to acquire uranium from Africa for...
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