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Afghanistan is biggest illicit drug source: UN
PARIS, June 25: Illicit drug production is on the wane in Myanmar, Laos, Colombia and Peru but flourishing in Afghanistan, feeding a growing heroin market in Central Asia, Russia and Eastern... 
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Karzai orders release of two journalists
KABUL, June 25: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday ordered the release of two journalists arrested last week, but said they would still face trial for publishing an article allegedly blasphemous...
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House probe into WMDs inadequate: US senator
WASHINGTON, June 25: A senior US senator called on Tuesday for a full-fledged congressional investigation into possible US intelligence failures or distortions leading up to the invasion of Iraq....
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One million N. Koreans in anti-US rally
SEOUL, June 25: More than a million North Koreans rallied in the capital on Wednesday to mark the 53rd anniversary of the start of the Korean war and protest against the...
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US, EU urge Iran not to make N-arms
WASHINGTON, June 25: President George Bush and European leaders urged Iran on Wednesday to keep its commitment not to produce nuclear weapons, and agreed that the United States and its allies...
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Intifada passes 1,000-day mark
TEL AVIV, June 25: As the Palestinian uprising passed the 1,000-day mark amid unabated bloodshed, hope was emerging that a truce agreement could herald the implementation of a peace plan and...
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HRW slams US military Commissions
NEW YORK, June 25: US military commissions set up by President Bush to try terrorist suspects risk violating the basic rights of the accused in their current form, Human Rights Watch...
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Power plant head shot dead in Iraq
BAGHDAD, June 25: The head of a power station in western Baghdad, a mother of four, was shot dead by unknown gunmen on Wednesday, an electricity official said, adding that the...
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Blair rules out more troops
BAGHDAD, June 25: British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday ruled out sending more troops to Iraq, but admitted at the same time the security situation in the country was “still...
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Palestinian, Israeli launch ‘peace plan’
TEL AVIV, June 25: Two leading Israeli and Palestinian figures officially launched on Wednesday a peace initiative aimed at collecting as many signatures as possible in a bid to force leaders...
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Bush aide eager for taking on Tehran
WASHINGTON: When ‘The Washington Post’ published a list of the people who Karl Rove, President George W. Bush’s closest adviser, regularly consults for advice outside the administration, foreign-policy veterans were shocked...
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Non-proliferation means no N-might
WASHINGTON: In October 1999, shortly before the fateful vote of the US Senate rejecting the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor...
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Iraqis killed UK soldiers over searches: witnesses
MAJJAR (Iraq): Iraqis said on Wednesday that anger over weapons searches in private homes triggered the killing of six British soldiers and the wounding of eight others in clashes around this...
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French MP for greater role in Syria
PARIS: A high-ranking member of President Jacques Chirac’s political party, UMP, Jacques Myard, who was sent to Damascus on behalf of the foreign relations committee of the French Parliament, has returned...
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