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US puts $25m bounty on Saddam
BAGHDAD, July 3: The United States on Thursday announced a 25-million-dollar reward to Iraqi citizens for information leading to the capture of their former leader Saddam Hussein.... 
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Berlusconi expresses regrets over Nazi slur: Incident is closed: Schroeder
BERLIN, July 3: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi expressed regrets to Germany on Thursday over a Nazi slur that has reopened painful wounds and underlined an excruciating sensitivity about its past....
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Plans to set up embassy delayed
WASHINGTON, July 3: The United States has postponed plans to open a temporary embassy in Iraq and transferred 20 millions dollars for the project to pay for Middle East peace efforts,...
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Military official shot dead in Herat
HERAT, July 3: An Afghan military official has been shot dead by two unknown gunmen in the centre of the main western city of Herat, officials said on Thursday....
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Sun-like star found 90 light years away
 PARIS, July 3: A hunt to find a twin to our Solar System has uncovered the most intriguing match so far, astronomers said here on Thursday....
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254 Pakistanis held in Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, July 3: A magistrate has remanded in custody 254 Pakistani men and five Sri Lankans in connection with a major people smuggling racket, police said Thursday....
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Israeli move against BBC condemned
PARIS, July 3: The The Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) has condemned the Israeli government for having announced on Tuesday that it was cutting off all links with the BBC on...
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India inviting mediation, says Omar
JAMMU, July 3: Indian Kashmir’s main opposition leader Omar Abdullah claimed on Thursday that India was allowing third party mediation in its dispute with Pakistan over Kashmir....
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Indian baby rescued after burial
NEW DELHI, July 3: An Indian newborn baby girl buried alive by her father survived 15 hours underground because she had unwittingly been placed among stones, creating room for her to...
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Saudi bombing suspect blows himself up
RIYADH, July 3: The most wanted militant in Saudi Arabia blew himself up on Thursday when cornered by Saudi forces in the north of the country, security sources said....
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Iraqis unsure of US ‘democratic’ designs
BAGHDAD: Out in Sadr City, a sprawling working-class district on the north edge of Baghdad, the United States is conducting an experiment unlike any other since the aftermath of World War...
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Berlusconi’s slur: latest in a long list of gaffes
ROME: The extraordinary diplomatic incident which Silvio Berlusconi provoked when he likened a German MEP to a Nazi death camp guard is but the latest in a long catalogue of high-profile...
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Africa resents terror hunt
NAIROBI: At 2 a.m, baton-wielding police kick open the doors of a home in Kenya’s Mombasa port, bludgeon its Muslim inhabitants and seize a terror suspect. Furious Muslim leaders complain of...
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Democrats, communists & Muslims in one camp
KAMUNTING: The view of verdant mountains across a river valley and an adjoining golf course suggest the setting for a country club....
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Iraqi oil chaos helps Opec, hurts West
LONDON: Hopes in the West that the fall of Saddam Hussein would herald cheaper oil and boost the economy seem to have boomeranged with oil cartel OPEC emerging as a big...
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Tehran under pressure: opposition
CAMP ASHRAF (Iraq): Disarmed by the Americans in the wake of the Iraq war, and with their offices in France raided by authorities, Iran’s armed opposition People’s Mujahideen defiantly say they...
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