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Chechen leader gives up independence claim
MOSCOW, June 17: Chechnya’s leader is no longer demanding complete independence for his breakaway Russian republic and is instead seeking talks to end the nearly four-year-long war there, his spokesman said... 
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France cracks down on Iranian group: 150 arrested
PARIS, June 17: French police on Tuesday launched a major crackdown on the leading Iranian armed opposition group, the People’s Mujahedeen, detaining more than 150 people in a series of dawn...
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US to take ‘harder line’ on Myanmar
PHNOM PENH, June 17: US Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday Washington would take a harsh stand on Myanmar following a fresh crackdown on its opposition, including the detention...
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Court rejects plea over 9/11 suspects
WASHINGTON, June 17: A US court on Tuesday ruled the Justice Department could keep secret the identity of suspects detained after the Sept 11, 2001, terror attacks....
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Washington rejects Tehran’s offer
WASHINGTON, June 17: The United States has rejected an Iranian offer to give more authority to nuclear inspectors in return for access to nuclear technology....
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US supremacy drive unsettling for friends and foes alike: SIPRI
STOCKHOLM, June 17: The United States’ ambition to do what it takes to remain the world’s only superpower is at least as unsettling for its friends as for its potential foes,...
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Bremer says elections in Iraq will be premature
BAGHDAD, June 17: The US overseer in Iraq, Paul Bremer, said on Tuesday that elections in the war-torn country would be “premature” in the absence of proper electoral legislation and procedures....
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Asean seeks early release of Suu Kyi
PHNOM PENH, June 17: Southeast Asian foreign ministers called for the early release of Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday as the United States warned of a tougher...
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Liberian govt, rebels sign truce accord
ACCRA, June 17: Liberian rebels on Tuesday signed a long-awaited truce with President Charles Taylor’s government to end a festering four-year civil war which has fuelled chaos and a humanitarian crisis...
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Sontag wins peace prize
 FRANKFURT, June 17: US writer, critic and playwright Susan Sontag has won the German book trade’s prestigious peace prize for defending free thought, the German Publishers and Booksellers Association announced on...
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Resignation withdrawn
PARIS, June 17: Dalil Boubakeur, who heads France’s new organisation for Muslims, the CFCM, withdrew his resignation on the request of French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, on Tuesday....
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Echoes of Vietnam emerging in Iraq
WASHINGTON: It was just 45 days ago that President George W Bush, in a campaign-perfect photo-op, landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of California, swaggered across the deck...
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True cost of Africa’s new oil rush: Corruption & chaos
LONDON: Washington determination to find an alternative energy source to the Middle East is leading to a new oil rush in sub-Saharan Africa which threatens to launch a fresh cycle of...
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Using globalization for a democratic revolution
LONDON: Last week (UK Foreign Secretary) Jack Straw illuminated the depths of his political cowardice by shining upon them the full and feeble beam of his political courage. He proposed to...
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Luanda is oilmen’s new centre
LONDON: Step inside the air-conditioned lounge of the Viking Club and Luanda’s squalor could be another universe. Here the oil executives and engineers sip beer and discuss geological reports, deals and...
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Iraqi cities blanketed by cluster bombs
New evidence emerged this month of the widespread use by US and British forces of deadly cluster bombs in densely populated areas of Iraq. On June 1, the London-based Observer newspaper...
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