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Troops for Iraq Allies leave decision to Indian PM
NEW DELHI, June 21: Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee overcame another hurdle on Saturday in deliberations whether to send troops to Iraq after his often fractious allies left the crucial... 
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Germany warns US against Iran attack
BERLIN, June 21: A senior German minister has warned the United States against armed intervention in Iran, saying the only way forward to democracy there was by political dialogue with the...
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Anti-EU protests turn violent: 50 held
 SALONIKA, June 21: Anti-EU demonstrations turned ugly on Saturday as riot police fired teargas on a mob of anarchists who threw firebombs and attacked shops in the Greek port city of...
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Link between Osama, Saddam found in Paris?
PARIS, June 21: French investigators are claiming that “part” of the $8 million in currency found last Tuesday (June 17) at People’s Mujahedeen headquarters outside Paris comes from Saddam Hussein’s war...
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Balkan leaders meet EU heads
PORTO CARRAS (Greece), June 21: The leaders of five Balkan states met for the first time their European Union counterparts on Saturday for a one-day summit that they hope will speed...
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Saddam is alive, says aide
WASHINGTON, June 21: The most important Iraqi captured by US troops yet has told his interrogators that former President Saddam Hussein is alive with his two sons, who fled to Syria...
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Missing uranium found, says official
WASHINGTON, June 21: A UN team has found most of the uranium feared stolen from a nuclear site outside Baghdad, the journal Science reported on Friday....
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Troops should be ready for sacrifices: Bush
WASHINGTON, June 21: US President George Bush warned on Saturday that the US forces in Iraq face a future of “danger and sacrifice” before the country is secure....
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144 killed in custody, admits Kashmir minister
SRINAGAR, June 21: Government forces battling freedom fighters in Kashmir, have allegedly killed 144 people in custody since the rebellion against Indian rule erupted in 1989, a provincial minister said on...
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Muslim woman allowed to wear veil
PARIS, June 21: One of France’s principal appeals court — the Cour d’appel de Paris — has authorized a young Muslim woman to wear her Islamic scarf at her place of...
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New Potter book released
LONDON, June 21: Pottermania encircled the globe on Saturday as millions of young fans rushed to buy the latest Harry Potter saga with author JK Rowling overjoyed that the plot had...
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Armed opposition in Iraq will grow
LONDON: It would have been hard to predict in advance that the US and British occupation of Iraq could go so spectacularly wrong so quickly. The words of the historian Tacitus...
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Hamas under pressure to suspend attacks
AL QUDS: Can Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas tame the Palestinian militants? This is one of the main questions for anyone who does not want to see the international “roadmap” peace plan...
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Why was he jailed at Guantanamo prison?
PARIS: Abaseen Roshan was one of 17 young men, released all too quietly last month from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, where they’d been incarcerated since the spring of 2002....
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Giscard’s appeal may go unheeded
PORTO CARRAS: Tony Blair and his federalist arch-rivals in the battle over the future structure of Europe were warned last night not to attempt last-minute changes to the EU’s draft....
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‘Phone ladies’ changing BD
SHAHABAZPUR: So-called phone ladies are ringing in the changes in Bangladeshi villages....
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